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Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
While you aren't wholly wrong, most people who are interested in real life space travel outside of just sci fi are at least a little familiar with astronautical terminology. Concepts like perigee, apogee, the various orbit terms (elliptical, polar, LEO, GEO, and MEO), spinward, antispinward...
This is from chapter 55 and, while the story has very much moved on, I thought I'd toss a bit of data in the pool.
Many people refer to this as a Flip and Burn Maneuver, but it is more scientifically referred to as a Retrograde Reorientation or a reorientation for retrograde deceleration.
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