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Starship reentry velocity on return from Mars: What are the options
Starship's limited $\Delta V$ means that it can't stray too far from minimum energy transfers.
100t payload + 120t dry mass + 1200t of propellant + 380s $I_{sp}$ $\to$ ~$6900m/s$, turns out this wasn'...
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How can you calculate a Hohmann transfer orbit but ending at the same orbit with a time difference between orbits?
Looks like you want a two-impulse phasing manoeuvre, first lifting your apoapsis with a burn, then going one or more orbits around, and then lower the apoapsis back down.
The orbital period can be ...
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