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chasrob
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I have an object in a 500,000 km circular orbit around earth. I want to change it into an elliptical orbit with a perigee of 500 km. I found this cool site and put those numbers in the calculator. The ”Injection into elliptical transfer orbit delta V” answer is -741.97 m/s. Does that mean to kill that amount of the big orbit velocity (887.2 m/s)? If so, that will put me in an elliptical orbit with a perigee of 500km and apogee of 500,000 km, correct? I don’t need to circularize the final orbit.
Unfortunately, can’t find an explanation of the figures on that web page.
Unfortunately, can’t find an explanation of the figures on that web page.