• sushibowl@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    It’s much more efficient in this case to do a bi-elliptic transfer: raise apoapsis very far out, then lower your periapsis once you are at apoapsis. Wikipedia says you could do it with about 8.8 km/s delta v. Versus 24 or so for a basic Hohman transfer (still a bit better than 30)

    Sadly the bi-elliptic transfer requires two burns so you can’t do it with a kick.