** Re-uploaded to fix small errors and improve understandability **

Do you find orbital mechanics too confusing to understand? Well, you wont after this video!

In this Animation we're in space! We are going to look at why when navigating in an orbit, to speed up, you need to slow down your spacecraft! But before we answer that question, we will first review what an orbit is in the first place and what mechanical energy is! So grab a coffee and I really hope you enjoy and learn from my latest work! Thanks for passing by and please consider subscribing for more!!


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Time Stamps:
Intro - 00:00
What is an Orbit 00:31
What is Mechanical Energy 1:13
Different Burns and Their Effects on orbits 2:48
Trying to Navigate in an Orbit 5:30


Disclaimer Im well aware that the ISS travels around the earth from west to east, I've animated this in the opposite direction as I felt like the concepts are easier to grasp with a top down clockwise motion of orbits.



Note: The physics and their respective principles throughout this animation are in no way faultless. Theories, speeds, altitudes have been simplified for comprehensibility.