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🚀 Orbital Rocket Launch - 2D Ascent Profile: Gravity Turn, Drag Losses and Orbit Insertion

2D companion of the Orbital Rocket Launch: a planar gravity-turn ascent with thrust, exponential-atmosphere drag, mass loss and an apogee circularization burn, shown as a downrange-altitude profile plus an Earth-to-scale predicted orbit, with checks against the rocket equation and Kepler orbits.

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Orbital Rocket Launch - 2D Ascent Profile: Gravity Turn, Drag Losses and Orbit Insertion ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the Orbital Rocket Launch: a planar gravity-turn ascent with thrust, exponential-atmosphere drag, mass loss and an apogee circularization burn, shown as a downrange-altitude profile plus an Earth-to-scale predicted orbit, with checks against the rocket equation and Kepler orbits.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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