Resonant Orbit Calculator

For Real Solar System

Calculates—and draws, because pictures are pretty—the resonant orbit needed for a carrier craft to inject craft it carries, like satellites, into equidistant positions of a shared circular orbit. This is useful for setting up things like CommNet constellations around various celestial bodies. The “injection burn” value provides the delta-v required to move from the resonant orbit to the final (circular) orbit.

Parameters

Resonant orbit

Injection Burn

Minimum LOS altitude m Synchronous orbit m Sphere of Influence m