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Also check out Kerbal Space Program. I had my intro to prograde, retrograde, normal and antinormal orbital mechanics 101 from that. Not accurate, but it ingrain
by z3phyr 8y ago
Also check out Kerbal Space Program. I had my intro to prograde, retrograde, normal and antinormal orbital mechanics 101 from that. Not accurate, but it ingrains an idea.
- remarkEon 8y agoKSP is such a great game. Best $40 I've spent on a game in a long, long time. I've gained quite the appreciation for the initial pioneers who attempted e.g. docking maneuvers with the spacecraft of the time. Definitely a steep learning curve in-game, but once you get the basics of how to get to orbit it's pretty easy to wrap your head around transferring to other orbital bodies.
- elcomet 8y agoDo you recommend a particular tutorial, or video to get an intro to the game and the physics ? I found that starting the game without it is quite hard
- Aardwolf 8y agoThe game itself has tutorials for the orbits, docking, ... built in, do those help?
- Doxin 8y agoI can highly recommend figuring out the various keybinds (some are not so obvious, e.g. space for staging) and then just messing around a while. Soon enough you'll run into not knowing how to do stuff like a hohmann transfer soon enough at which point you can start googling.