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Aerospace engineering

two-impulse elliptical transfer between coplanar circular orbits that uses the least velocity change for that class of transfer.

In aerospace engineering, Hohmann transfer refers to two-impulse elliptical transfer between coplanar circular orbits that uses the least velocity change for that class of transfer. This meaning comes from Hohmann (1925) in Die Erreichbarkeit der Himmelskörper.[1]

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References

Hohmann, W. (1925). Die Erreichbarkeit der Himmelskörper. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783486751406

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