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Atmospheric density ? or maybe that the “low orbit” distance given for Venus is 400km vs 250km for Earth.
by danw1979 8y ago
Atmospheric density ?
or maybe that the “low orbit” distance given for Venus is 400km vs 250km for Earth.
- pdonis 8y ago> maybe that the “low orbit” distance given for Venus is 400km vs 250km for Earth No, that won't make much of a difference: the gain is basically just the gain in potential energy for the extra 150 km, which is equivalent to only a few tens of meters per second delta-v.