Hohmann transfer orbit.svg - illustration of a Hohmann transfer orbit
In orbital mechanics, the Hohmann transfer orbit is an orbital maneuver
using two engine impulses which, under standard assumptions, move a
spacecraft between two coplanar circular orbits. This maneuver was named
after Walter Hohmann, the German scientist who published a description of
it in 1925.
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