cavelamb himself wrote:

Orbital mechanics is really simple - in theory.

Slow down - go down.
Speed up, go up.

Refering to the center of the orbit.

Heliocentric, in this case.


I though it worked that way. Likely learned this from National Geographic back during the
Gemini program.

Wes
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