Imagine two spacecraft are in identical orbits, one behind the other. I am in the Starship Enterprise with Captain James T. Kirk. You are in a transport vehicle, the Heron, trailing the Starship Enterprise by one hundred miles. Your intent is to rendezvous and dock with the Starship Enterprise. When you command your pilot to do so, he simply accelerates by kicking some thrust out of the Heron's trailing end OMS. Describe what happens when he does so.

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When the Herons pilot kicks some thrust of the transport vehicle its speed increases dramatically ... View the full answer