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Why Circularize Orbits?

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Nich

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It is a trade off circularizing low allows for a much smaller lander and if you are landing 10-15 times on a planet this will save you a lot of fuel. Also since tugs usually have more efficient nuclear engines it can take less fuel for an entire tug to circularize then an LFOX lander to land and reorbit into a highly essentric orbit.

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Tatonf

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Bacause I mostly do interplanetary mission, and getting a circular orbit is a condition used by transfer window calculators.

Also a 70x70 orbit is the cheaper orbit you can get and gives you maximum Oberth effect.

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