Timeline for What's the point of characteristic energy?
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| Nov 2, 2022 at 2:20 | vote | accept | TheEnvironmentalist | ||
| Sep 28, 2021 at 19:40 | comment | added | notovny | For what it's worth, specific orbital energy is the energy per unit mass over (or under) the amount required to escape the body being orbited. Characteristic energy is twice that value. | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 1:43 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 0:55 | comment | added | TheEnvironmentalist | @AtmosphericPrisonEscape Added a link which hopefully covers the background on characteristic energy. Let me know if there’s something else you would add | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 0:53 | history | edited | TheEnvironmentalist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1441553061210570757 | ||
| Sep 24, 2021 at 14:49 | comment | added | AtmosphericPrisonEscape | Is C3 the characteristic energy for the third integration constant in the circularly restricted three-body problem, i.e. the Jacobi energy? It would be good if you could give a definition of the characteristic energy, then a relation to $\Delta v$ should follow from this. | |
| Sep 24, 2021 at 13:24 | history | asked | TheEnvironmentalist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |