The Gravity Assistant

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G’day and welcome to my channel. Here I will be discussing aerospace topics which I really struggled to understand during my studies. I often need physically intuitive explanations to truly understand a topic, and these aren't always available in textbooks or lectures. Here I will share some of the explanations that I developed or collected in the hope that they will also be useful for others. A warning - a physically intuitive understanding is only one piece of the puzzle, you still need to understand the maths to fully master a topic, but I will leave that to others who can explain it better. Future topics (please suggest others!); - the Tisserand plane for (aero)gravity assists - hypersonic waveriders - thermal protection systems - J2 pertubation - GEO (in)stability points - Oberth effect and chemical vs electric propulsion - mechanical impedance - space telecomms for dummies (mechanical engineers) - why rockets crackle