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What Delta-V typically needed for lunar orbit insertion

'lunar orbit insertion' redirects here but there are no numbers. Lunar Orbit Insertion says only that "... free-return trajectory to the Moon ... is a rather high energy path, which necessitates a very large (~1,000 m/s or 3,000 fps) maneuver to achieve [elliptical] orbit insertion," followed by a circularisation burn. - Rod57 (talk) 11:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

On Stackexchange someone wrote "From an Earth-Moon Hohmann transfer, it takes about 680 m/s to reach a low lunar orbit at ~100 km altitude." "The Apollo missions started from a faster transfer orbit, so they required a little more ∆v; Apollo 11's initial LOI burn was 889 m/s to enter a 113 km pericynthion, 313.4 km apocynthion orbit." - Rod57 (talk) 11:41, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

another relevant StackExchange thread

selenostationary orbital distance for any tidally locked moon Arlo James Barnes 10:20, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]