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    Direction of burn for planetary orbit insertion

    I take it that the ideal is to have 1/2 your Delta-V before PeA and 1/2 after? I've been working off the rule of thumb that you do 1/3 of your burn before periapsis as recommended in the TransX manual ijv -----Post Added----- This might be what I'm looking for. I've been experimenting with...
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    Direction of burn for planetary orbit insertion

    I'm wondering what is the best direction to point your burn vector when you want to insert into orbit around a planet from an interplanetary transfer orbit. As I understand it, for an impulsive burn (or close to it), you would wait till you hit periapsis relative to your target planet, point...
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