I wonder how much of orbital mechanics is driven by trends among the people who design orbits for specific missions and how much is just plugging in parameters to standard equations and computing the optimal orbits.
I was thinking about this because it seems like I've heard more about near-rectilinear halo orbits in the past few years than I ever had before
@2ck they're more practical to plan because the tools are better - you can compute a whole bunch of potential orbits very quickly
@izaya that makes some sense. do you actually work in the space industry? I seem to recall you were considering it some time ago, but didn't think you had sufficient background knowledge to be hireable (or something like that)
@2ck I just read and watch a lot of related stuff when I get into KSP. Scott Manley has a good video on NRHOs.
plus they're primarily meant for lunar operation so the recent push to go back to the moon would be contributing
plus it's spicy and a little but of a buzzword yeah