[TML] Guns in Space!

[Timothy Little]

shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> (get the "backwards" burn flipped and you'll have a nasty problem
> half an orbit later).

Nah, if you boost it forward, then half an orbit later it reaches
apogee above and behind you.  After a full orbit, it crosses your path
again but you're ahead of it now because a higher orbit is slower.

It can't be a problem before it does N orbits to your N+1 -- and even
then only if its orbital period happens to be within a few parts per
million of (N+1)/N compared with yours.  If it's not, then it will
take even longer.  The *only* short-term bad case is boosting it very
close to perpendicular to the orbital path.


- Tim