General Question Which orbital parameter determines the velocity of a celestial object?

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This is the problem with my planet as seen in my last thread.
Does anyone have a clue?
 

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İİ14;145055 said:
This is the problem with my planet as seen in my last thread.
Does anyone have a clue?

Not just one, but µ (standard gravity parameter of the central body, eg the sun. µ = GM, G is gravity constant, M is the mass of the central body, µ is just more accurately known than G or M themselves), a (semi-major axis), ε (eccentricity) and φ (true anomaly).
 

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Thank you all, now i have the perfect eccentric orbit that will get me within the orbit of the moon and of earth. There was a great gravitational disturbance that hoisted my deltagliderIV up into the air and all i did to do that was to activate the rcs thrusters.
The lunar space station was sucked into my new planet:lol:.
 
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