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yourout

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10. They are using a elliptical entrance to a much higher parking orbit.

Reply to Silent3 (Original post)

Wed Nov 16, 2022, 06:04 PM

Nov 2022

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/artemis-i-map

Much like how the web telescope is now using LaGrange point gravitational fields for parking....flight Dynamics have changed pretty dramatically in the last 20 years as the understanding of gravitational relationships of orbital bodies has advanced.

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Artemis question: Why six days to reach the moon, when it only took Apollo a little over three? [View all] Silent3 Nov 2022 OP

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I can't speak to Artemis I Gore1FL Nov 2022 #4

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They are using a elliptical entrance to a much higher parking orbit. yourout Nov 2022 #10

Usually we figure that the flight path is closely timed. keithbvadu2 Nov 2022 #14

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