Timeline for What is the optimal burn direction to lower periapsis of hyperbolic orbit?
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| Dec 17, 2013 at 23:44 | vote | accept | engStudent4133 | ||
| Dec 16, 2013 at 23:43 | answer | added | fibonatic | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 16, 2013 at 22:28 | comment | added | zephyr | Well, if an orbit is hyperbolic, the body must have sufficient energy to reach escape velocity, thus however you look at it surely we must have to decrease the total energy of the ship, which can only be achieved by slowing down. Thus some (larger) component of the velocity must be retrograde, but the doesn't mean the optimal burn wouldn't also have a tangential component. | |
| Dec 16, 2013 at 20:18 | history | edited | Kyle Kanos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2013 at 19:58 | history | asked | engStudent4133 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |