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Orbital Transfer Vehicles are spacecraft equipped with their own propulsion and attitude control systems, capable of transporting payloads or satellites from one orbit to another. These vehicles are used for purposes such as achieving precise orbital changes beyond the reach of launch vehicles, satellite maintenance and on-orbit servicing, space debris mitigation missions, and the development of low-cost multi-mission architectures. The initial concepts formulated by NASA in the 1980s evolved in