Comment on Launches

• 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.

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• Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • mihor@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This guy orbital mechanics!

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• Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jebadiah is always so happy to spend 52 years only to find be stranded on Bop.

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  • 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…

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    • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I love KSP

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• 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.

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• BurningRiver@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I scrolled down specifically looking for a KSP comment, thank you.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s what I was thinking too.

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