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Orbit 101

Orbital Frontier

The beginner’s course: why an orbit is falling and missing the ground, and what each control on the map really does.

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  1. Aiming at the Moon: the burn that throws you there 8:56
  2. Orbital speed: why lower orbits go faster 9:11
  3. Circularising: the burn that makes it stay up 8:55
  4. The gravity turn: why rockets lean over 9:22
  5. Why prograde raises the far side 8:11
  6. Apoapsis and periapsis: the high point and the low point 8:56
  7. Falling around the world: what an orbit is 7:36