Go play a bit of KSP. NASA employees have stated that Kerbal Space Program has given them an intuition of orbital mechanics that a degree didn't.
And working with things that make you go _slower_ when turning on your engine to push you in the direction of travel needs intuition to even begin. Yes, once you get to the other side of the planet you are orbiting, you are going slower than if you didn't use your engine at all.
Off topic but I have never understood this quote. can anyone please explain. "In order to go fast, slow down, anybody who has learnt orbital mechanics know this"
Go play a bit of KSP. NASA employees have stated that Kerbal Space Program has given them an intuition of orbital mechanics that a degree didn't.
And working with things that make you go _slower_ when turning on your engine to push you in the direction of travel needs intuition to even begin. Yes, once you get to the other side of the planet you are orbiting, you are going slower than if you didn't use your engine at all.