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by danw1979 2661 days ago
Atmospheric density ?

or maybe that the “low orbit” distance given for Venus is 400km vs 250km for Earth.

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> maybe that the “low orbit” distance given for Venus is 400km vs 250km for Earth

No, that won't make much of a difference: the gain is basically just the gain in potential energy for the extra 150 km, which is equivalent to only a few tens of meters per second delta-v.