If you are aiming for the International Space Station and accidentally overshoot it, can you make it back? Or do you just drift off into orbit until someone rescues you?
In: Physics
You don’t really aim for the ISS. You aim for a similar orbit, and then adjust that orbit so that eventually you’ll wind up near the ISS, at which point you adjust it again to match orbits.
In this sense, you can’t really overshoot – just goof up your adjustments which only requires more adjustments.
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