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Thanks a lot for your responses, I really appreciate it. The thing is, I understand these things. The problem lies in the fact that the different losses Urwumpe explains are in conflict with each other (turn as soon as you can to minimize gravity losses, turn as late as possible to minimize drag...

Hello everyone! I'm trying to make a comparison between 2 Soyuz launches, one from Baikonur and one from Kourou, thus quantifying the improvement in results due to Kourou's better location in terms of initial earth rotation speed. Of course, for this to be realistic, I'm using the same payload...

Hi everyone! I've recently joined the orbiter simulator community as I'm interested in making a comparison between two different Soyuz launchings, one from Baikonur and one from Kourou. Both launches would send up the same payload and I would like to quantify the advantage that a possible launch...