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What do I need to calculate to impact an accelerating spacecraft with an accelerating kinetic kill vehicle?
Impacting an accelerating spacecraft
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The position of the spacecraft and the projectile as function of time. There are multiple solutions (=same position at a specific time), you just need one of them.
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