For those of us who can't rendezvous for crap, I have a feeling tractor beams would make things significantly easier for us. Of course, it would have to be balanced. I was thinking about the balance and here was what I was thinking:
Uses a ton of power
Only works at a certain distance
(Lets say, 40km)If the object you're trying to tractor is going by too fast, it'll fry the emitter, or most likely blow up the satelite due to an overload. (Maybe could implement a coolant, or heat fins)
If the object you're trying to capture is going faster then you are, when finally docked the overall velocity would be slightly higher, and can also subtract velocity from your craft if you're going faster then the target.
There would be settings to configure how fast an object would be grabbed
If anybody got any suggestions I'm all ears.
Aw well