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Thanks for your contribution! I've flown many interplanetary missions with your tool. For more accurate and realistic missions, there's this tool [0] to calcul
by exDM69 9y ago
Thanks for your contribution! I've flown many interplanetary missions with your tool.
For more accurate and realistic missions, there's this tool [0] to calculate pork chop plots [1] to find minimum energy transfers. (you surely know about this)
I think calculators and mission planners like this should be a part of the game proper. Switching to a web browser mid-game to do mission planning is a big turn off for me.
It might be a part of their game design, there are very few numbers and data presented in game. But I don't think it works very well apart from some very basic moon missions. A lot of the information is there but it's just difficult to find (e.g. want to know your inclination? select moon, and then look at ascending/descending nodes in map view).
I enjoyed the eyeball method initially but you grow out of it soon. I liked the "fire prograde when moon rises over horizon" moon missions and I even achieved a rendez-vous in 0.17 [2] before there were maneuver nodes or other helpful gadgets in the map view.
But once we got maneuver nodes, intersection markers, etc that playing style was out of the window. Now I'd really want to have some proper mission planning utilities (similar to some MFD modes in Orbiter).
I think the game should (at minimum) have a transfer window planner, a patched conics solver (with optimization), a pork chop plotter and a rocket burn planner for ascent and powered descent. Perhaps a Clohessy-Wiltshire-Hill equation solver for pinpoint accuracy rendez-vous too.
[0] https://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/ https://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkchop_plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkchop_plot
[2] http://imgur.com/p5Dz5Ab http://imgur.com/p5Dz5Ab
- mpwoz 9y agoHave you tried this mod? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/84005-13x-transfer-window-planner-v1620-may-30/ http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/84005-1... It was a game changer for me, and really made interplanetary transfers "click"