FIELD: aviation.
SUBSTANCE: method comprises undocking the SC from Earth orbital space station (OSS) and transferring to flight path to the moon. Then SC is placed into selenocentric orbit. After being there a specified time the SC is transferred to the flight path to Earth in a plane coinciding with the plane of the original OSS low earth orbit at a specified docking point. In order to accomplish that, SC orbital plane change is performed on the selenocentric orbit at a predetermined angle. Further, SC drifts down until the height of the OSS orbit by several brakings in the Earth's atmosphere. Then the SC is docked again with OSS.
EFFECT: possibility of multiple flights, for example, between near-earth and near-lunar OSS at relatively low reference speed input and in a time of about 15 days.
6 dwg
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Dates
2017-03-28—Published
2015-09-15—Filed