> ... in-orbit maneuvering with other spacecraft ... Sat A, changes 
> orbit to rendezvous with Sat B ...

Two cubesats, BEVO1 (University of Texas) and AggieSat-2 (Texas A and M
University) deployed earlier this summer were the first phase of developing
this type of rendezvous capability:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/DRAGONSat.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqM3Wq_ijw8

After deployment the two satellites did not separate from each other.

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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
[email protected] 
Editor, AMSAT News Service
Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal



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