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| Space Shuttle Rendezvous Maneuvers |
| COMMON SHUTTLE RENDEZVOUS MANEUVERS OMS-1 (Orbit insertion): Rarely used ascent abort burn OMS-2 (Orbit insertion): Typically used to circularize the initial orbit following ascent, completing orbital insertion. For ground-up rendezvous flights, also considered a rendezvous phasing burn NC (Rendezvous phasing): Performed to hit a range relative to the target at a future time NH (Rendezvous height adjust): Performed to hit a delta-height relative to the target at a future time NPC (Rendezvous plane change): Performed to remove planar errors relative to the target at a future time NCC (Rendezvous corrective combination): First on-board targeted burn in the rendezvous sequence. Using star tracker data, it is performed to remove phasing and height errors relative to the target at Ti Ti (Rendezvous terminal intercept): Second on-board targeted burn in the rendezvous sequence. Using primarily rendezvous radar data, it places the orbiter on a trajectory to intercept the target in one orbit MC-1, MC-2, MC-3, MC-4 (Rendezvous midcourse burns): These on-board targeted burns use star tracker and rendezvous radar data to correct the post-Ti trajectory in preparation for the final, manual proximity operations phase |
