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Burns at perigee can only raise or lower part of the orbit though, right? A burn at perigee lowers or raises the apogee. To lower or raise the perigee, you need
by roelschroeven 2y ago
Burns at perigee can only raise or lower part of the orbit though, right? A burn at perigee lowers or raises the apogee. To lower or raise the perigee, you need to burn at apogee.
- exDM69 2y agoCorrect. Burns don't have to happen only at perigee/apogee so there's more flexibility in practice. And counter intuitive stuff like bi-elliptic transfers.
- monkeyfun 2y agoAhhhh, bi-elliptic transfers! It's funny, I remember first learning to use such arcane maneuvers in a game called Children of a Dead Earth, in order to get into a terribly low orbit of Neptune to strike a methane refinery... My poor brain was always used to simple Hohmann transfers in games like KSP!