Design of rendezvous section and chase window for long-range orbital rendezvous

Subsection 1.1 of the full paper defines and explains the long-range orbital rendezvous section and initial target section. Subsection 1.2 defines and explains the chase window. Subsection 2.2 derives eqs. (13) and (16) and, with the help of Fig. 3, which is the flow chart of an algorithm, explains how to determine the initial target section and the long-range orbital rendezvous section, which is needed for long-range orbital rendezvous between two non-coplanar elliptic orbits under the constraints of time and total fuel consumption. Subsection 2.3, with the help of Fig. 4, which is the flow chart of another algorithm, explains how to determine the chase window. Section 3 simulates the long-range orbital rendezvous section, the initial target section and the chase window as related to the rendezvous time and maneuver impulse. The simulation results, shown in Figs. 5 through 9 and Table 2, demonstrate preliminarily that the method thus designed can precisely determine the rendezvous section and the chase window.