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Astronomy - Hohmann Transfer Orbit
The most efficient way to reach Mars from Earth is following the Hohmann Transfer Orbit (Wolfgang Hohmann, 1925). A spaceship must first get free of Earth (it still orbits the Sun together with Earth, at 30 km/s, at a distance of 1 AU), then it adds speed so that its aphelion (in its orbit...- GPalm
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