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Gravité, lois de Kepler, éléments orbitaux, vitesses, échappement, l'équation des fusées et comment les vaisseaux spatiaux voyagent entre les mondes.

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  1. La gravité de Newton

    • Newton's gravity · 12 min

      One law explains falling apples, the Moon's orbit and the path of every planet. Fire Newton's cannon and find out how.

  2. Les lois de Kepler

    • Kepler's laws · 14 min

      Three rules found from careful observations in the early 1600s still describe every orbit, from moons to exoplanets.

  3. Éléments orbitaux

    • Orbital elements · 14 min

      Six numbers pin down any orbit in space: its size, shape, tilt, orientation and where the body is on it.

  4. Vitesse orbitale : l’équation vis-à-vis

    • Orbital speed: the vis-viva equation · 12 min

      One short equation gives the speed of anything in orbit at any point, if you know how far it is and the size of its orbit.

  5. Escape velocity

    • Escape velocity · 12 min

      How fast do you need to go to leave a world for good? And why rockets do not actually need to reach it at the surface.

  6. Pourquoi une orbite est une chute

    • Why an orbit is a fall · 10 min

      Astronauts float not because there is no gravity up there, but because they are falling all the time, and missing.

  7. Atteindre l'orbite : le virage de gravité

    • Reaching orbit · 12 min

      Why rockets go up for only a few seconds, then spend ten minutes going sideways: the gravity turn, staging and orbital insertion.

  8. L'équation de la fusée et delta-v

    • The rocket equation and delta-v · 12 min

      Why rockets are mostly fuel, why they come in stages, and the one equation behind every mission's budget.

  9. Transferts de Hohmann

    • Hohmann transfers: changing orbits · 12 min

      To go higher you speed up, and then you arrive slower. The two-burn manoeuvre that moves satellites from low orbit to geostationary orbit.

  10. Lancement des fenêtres

    • Launch windows: the road to Mars · 12 min

      You cannot aim at Mars, only at where Mars will be in eight months. Why Mars missions leave every 26 months, all at once.

  11. Insertion orbitale: être capturé

    • Orbital insertion: getting captured · 12 min

      Arriving at a planet is the most dangerous minute of a mission: one burn decides whether you stay or fly past forever.

  12. Gravity assists

  13. Points de Lagrange

    • Lagrange points: balance in the sky · 11 min

      Five places around every pair of worlds where a spacecraft can ride along for free, and why the James Webb Space Telescope lives at one of them.

  14. Rendez-vous et amarrage

    • Rendezvous: catching the space station · 11 min

      To catch something ahead of you in orbit, you drop lower and go slower-looking but faster. The counter-intuitive art of meeting in space.

  15. Retour à la maison: réentrée

    • Coming home: reentry · 11 min

      A small push slows a spacecraft by a hundred metres per second, and the air takes care of the other 7.8 kilometres per second, as a fireball.

  16. Porkchop plots

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  17. Astéroïdes et comètes

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