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Increasing the speed of a circular orbit
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[QUOTE="Janus, post: 6164005, member: 4"] That's about it. Below escape velocity, you have elliptical orbits (with a circular orbit being a special case of an ellipse). At escape velocity, you have a parabolic trajectory. Above escape velocity, you have a hyperbolic trajectory. The other way to categorize them is by total orbital energy (KE+GPE) Thus using the equation: $$E= \frac{mv^2}{2}- \frac{GMm}{r}$$ Circular/elliptical orbits result in a negative values Escape velocity/parabolic trajectories result in an answer of 0 Hyperbolic trajectories yield positive values. [/QUOTE]
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