English Explanatory Dictionary

Oberth effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The concept that the most efficient place for spacecraft to change velocity is at the periapsis (the lowest point of an orbit).

Word forms

Oberth effect Oberth effects

Etymology

Named after the physicist Hermann Oberth, who described the concept in 1927.

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