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| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:57 | history | edited | Litho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 12:47 | comment | added | Puffin | That's interesting and makes a lot more sense now. +1. It's not a convention for expressing an orbit I'm familiar with. I'd be interested to hear more about how its used too. Given the explanation here, it seems the useful number is the delta V, either as a vector or as a scalar in conjunction with the flight path angle from circular to elliptical, which is perhaps what lower case omega represents. | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 11:05 | history | answered | Litho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |