What if we catch a gravity assist off Jool, and do the retrograde burn at perijool to catch some Oberth Effect?
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SARGE@startrek.website 1 year agoThis definitely reads like one of my KSP exploits…
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jebadiah is always so happy to spend 52 years only to find be stranded on Bop.
SARGE@startrek.website 1 year ago
I actually sent a rescue mission to save one of my kerbals and the science they had on board, and ended up needing to launch a mission to save the rescue mission…
Had to break it up into three launches, two to build the larger ship in orbit and one to fuel it up.
I learned a lot about orbital mechanics that day…
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love KSP
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
I remember there was a trick where you could transfer fuel around to move your center of gravity then rotate the ship.
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I scrolled down specifically looking for a KSP comment, thank you.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s what I was thinking too.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Gravity assist with one of the larger planets to make a very narrow orbit seems to be the most efficient way. But you need the planets to align correctly to have an efficient route.
“I’ll launch you into the sun once there is an appropriate transfer window to Jupiter” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.