I would assume that ships would dock along the axis of spin. In the case of a mckendree cylinder the ship would dock at the far end of the cylinder (matching its rotation speed). For a bishop rind they would probably dock in the centre of the ring (once again matching its rotations speed) then catch elevators down to the surface.

Yessir, same as you would approach any moving body in space. By matching the bodies, velocity and vector, you would be stationary relative to the structure/object.

Already solved. Rendezvous with Rama. Central axis docking.

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I could see a proboscis with a bunch of docking ports and a slip ring connection that cancels the rotation. Then you can dock more than 2 things.

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Docking at the spin axis will definitely not work. Or you accept that you will only ever have a maximum of two ships docked simultaneously.

But this is obviously impractical for anything larger than the ISS.

Look up my older posts how to solve this.

Either have a docking arm on both sides that align with the axis of rotation, or have a counter rotating docking ring with ports at regular intervals.