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We propose an easy-to-implement algorithm providing the safe (collision-free) separation of the Soyuz MS crew transfer vehicle from the ports of the Rassvet (MRM-1) and Poisk (MRM-2) mini-research modules of the International Space Station at an arbitrary station attitude at the time of separation and angular velocities exceeding the maximum permissible for the current undocking algorithm. A criterion of collision-free separation process is described and a comprehensive mathematical model used for calculation is presented.
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Aviatsionnaya Tekhnika, 2019, No. 4, pp. 48–54.
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Bakulin, V.N., Bogomolov, N.V. & Borzykh, S.V. Separation Algorithm of the Soyuz MS Spacecraft from Nonstabilized International Space Station. Russ. Aeronaut. 62, 577–584 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S106879981904007X
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