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🛰️ Orbital Rendezvous Lab: Clohessy–Wiltshire Relative Motion and the Docking Approach

Clohessy-Wiltshire (Hill) equations lab: place a chaser near a station in the LVLH frame, burn prograde and watch it fall behind, plan a two-burn rendezvous, compare V-bar and R-bar approaches, and see how the linear CW model drifts from a full Kepler propagation as range grows.

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⚙ Under the hood

Clohessy-Wiltshire (Hill) equations lab in the LVLH frame: burn prograde and fall behind, ride a 2:1 football orbit, plan two-burn rendezvous from the CW state-transition matrix, and compare V-bar and R-bar approaches with a docking corridor. Unlike the existing docking and rendezvous simulators, it focuses on the CW maths and measures how the linear model drifts from full Kepler propagation as range grows.

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