You are in a circular Earth orbit with a velocity of 1 DU/TU. Your service module...

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You are in a circular Earth orbit with a velocity of 1 DU/TU.Your service module is in another circular orbit with a velocity of0.5 DU/TU. What is the minimum delta v needed to transfer to theservice module's orbit ? (Answer: 0.449 DU/TU).

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For transferring from one circular orbit of radius r1to radius r2 the process happens in two stepsfirst the circular of    See Answer
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