• efficiencies of the Oberth effect. The maneuver and effect are named after the person who first described them in 1927, Hermann Oberth, a Transylvanian Saxon...
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    Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer...
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    Gravity assist (redirect from Sling effect)
    the burn occurs at the vehicle's maximum velocity (periapsis). The Oberth effect describes this technique in more detail. In his paper "To Those Who...
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  • Hermann Oberth, the Austro-Hungarian-born, German physicist and a founder of modern rocketry, who apparently first described the effect. The Oberth effect is...
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  • unit delta-v is equal to the instantaneous speed. This is called the Oberth effect. For example, a satellite in an elliptical orbit is boosted more efficiently...
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    the effect on the planet's orbit is negligible. The Oberth effect can be employed, particularly during a gravity assist operation. This effect is that...
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  • solar flyby at 3 to 10 solar radii, in order to take advantage of the Oberth effect. Subsequent research revealed further launch possibilities, notably...
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    technology in A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. In 1923, Hermann Oberth (1894–1989) published Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (The Rocket into...
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    significant gravitation, much less delta-v is usually required, as the Oberth effect may be employed for the burns. They are also often used for these situations...
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  • typically numerically integrated on a computer. Some effects such as Oberth effect can only be significantly utilised by high thrust engines such as rockets;...
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    orbital velocity relative to the Sun or another planet. Another effect is the Oberth effect—this can be used to greatly decrease the delta-v needed, because...
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    change in velocity required will be at its lowest, as explained by the Oberth effect. Escape velocity can either be measured as relative to the other, central...
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  • engineer Hermann-Oberth-Gesellschaft Oberth (crater) Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum Oberth effect (astrodynamics) Erna Roth Oberth (1923–2012), Transylvanian-German...
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    will become gradually longer and summers will become shorter. Any cooling effect in one hemisphere is balanced by warming in the other, and any overall change...
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    1813. Robert Goddard also developed it independently in 1912, and Hermann Oberth derived it independently about 1920. The maximum change of velocity of the...
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    {\displaystyle {\sqrt {11.6^{2}-11.2^{2}}}=3.02} This is an example of the Oberth effect. The converse is also true - a body does not need to be slowed by much...
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  • mass fraction Tsiolkovsky rocket equation Efficiency measures Gravity assist Oberth effect Propulsive maneuvers Orbital maneuver Orbit insertion v t e...
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    for maximally efficient circularization burns taking advantage of the Oberth effect, and allows the spent launch vehicle to deorbit primarily through aerobraking...
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    propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based...
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    Collision avoidance (spacecraft) Delta-v budget Interplanetary travel Oberth effect Look up window of opportunity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Walsh...
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    Orbital mechanics Orbital maneuver Gravity assist Aerogravity assist Oberth effect Space launch Non-rocket spacelaunch Aerobraking Aerocapture Atmospheric...
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    Lagrangian mechanics List of objects at Lagrange points Lunar space elevator Oberth effect Actually ⁠25 + 3√69/2⁠ ≈ 24.9599357944 (sequence A230242 in the OEIS)...
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    mass fraction Tsiolkovsky rocket equation Efficiency measures Gravity assist Oberth effect Propulsive maneuvers Orbital maneuver Orbit insertion v t e...
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  • mass fraction Tsiolkovsky rocket equation Efficiency measures Gravity assist Oberth effect Propulsive maneuvers Orbital maneuver Orbit insertion v t e...
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  • Newton's assumption and end up teaching that his mathematical model is in effect reality. It is to be understood that the classical two-body problem solution...
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    mass fraction Tsiolkovsky rocket equation Efficiency measures Gravity assist Oberth effect Propulsive maneuvers Orbital maneuver Orbit insertion v t e...
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    Gravity turn Hohmann transfer Inclination change Low-energy transfer Oberth effect Phasing Rocket equation Rendezvous Trans-lunar injection Transposition...
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    approximation, and other forces (such as radiation pressure or the Yarkovsky effect) can eventually perturb an object out of the sphere.[citation needed] As...
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    mass fraction Tsiolkovsky rocket equation Efficiency measures Gravity assist Oberth effect Propulsive maneuvers Orbital maneuver Orbit insertion v t e...
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