KSP - Keosynchronous Orbit Tutorial

[Lsumba97]

Hey do you use a "diagram/map" of sorts to plan? and if you do, could you post a link or somthing?

[trydyingtolive]

@Lsumba97 Mostly I do trial and error.

[Neomex000]

wow, really nice job! can't wait till 14 update to be able to save it in space! :D

[StelarCF]

@Neomex000 I can't wait for multiplayer so I can shoot it down.... INTO YOUR LAUNCH PAD.

[Neomex000]

@StelarCF

you will screw it anyway as usual :D

[StelarCF]

@Neomex000 probably.... considering that most ships that I make overheat, fall on the launch pad, disintegrate in air or even dismember in air (had a ship with 36 moded bigger solid boosters - I will suffice to say that they started flying apart in thin air :D)

[trydyingtolive]

@Neomex000 Oh, I will have a permanent set of Kerbals orbiting above the space center.

[StelarCF]

@trydyingtolive not so "permanent" if it's multiplayer with me in it... :D

[trydyingtolive]

@StelarCF Oh oh oh smack talk. Wait I can do smack talk too. Hold on. Wait let me think. I got it. If it's multiplayer with you then I think it's safe. See what I did there? I insinuated that you couldn't get a ship close enough to cause damage. Boom roasted.

[StelarCF]

@trydyingtolive step 1: Determine orbit of your ship

step 2: send a rocket that is just a little bit under your orbit and rotates in the opposite direction

step 3: FIRE DROID ROCKETS AT WILL

step 4: Go back.

[umter]

@trydyingtolive @StelarCF BOOM ROASTED!

[ViewerAbuser]

I hope you know by now that doing what you did wastes fuel. It is much more fuel efficient to make 2 burns: one from kerbin orbit, and one at your keosynchronous altitude. Look up "Oberth effect" for more details.

[ScreamsOfSilence100]

Awesome tutorials, keep 'em coming :)

[kirktube]

@trydyingtolive Really Great Stuff! Just curious if this is possible with the Mun. I know the Mun does not rotate about its axis the same way Kerbin does, but beyond that I wouldnt know how to figure it out. I just fly the rockets, I dont calculate the trajectories.

[trydyingtolive]

@kirktube I've actually tried this. It turns so slowly that you escape it's sphere before you slow down enough.

[kirktube]

@trydyingtolive bummer. Thanks for getting back. Keep up the awesome videos.

[lagolagos]

17:06  Kerbals approve of your work :D

[Fredde1Widde]

What are Ap and Pe?

[trydyingtolive]

@Fredde1Widde Ap stands for apoapsis which is the farthest slowest part of your orbit. Pe stands for perapsis which is the fastest lowest part of your orbit.

[karlkarl93]

@Fredde1Widde Im not a scientist but their kinda like two sides of the orbit, like we have

North and South. I hope this is right

[stackman1525]

6:30

That's the Coriolis effect, which means your rocket is utilizing the rotation of Kerbin itself.

[eviscero]

re: loss of speed - you're referring to Max Q :)

[soverato3]

you should have left a satillite in keosynchronous orbit :)

[barkerboy561]

How do you use RCS thrusters?

[trydyingtolive]

@barkerboy561 Press R to enable. Then use the J,K,L,I,H,N keys to fire them in the correct direction. Look at your input settings for exactly what each keys does.

[karlkarl93]

i tryed to do it, i got a orbit, but accidentaly used all the RCS fuel and Kermans cant get back, i wish i could leave them spinning then make a new rocket and send it to bush the pod back onto earth

[trydyingtolive]

@karlkarl93 I wish I could do that too. Next time don't enable your RCS until you are ready to use them. The Advanced SAS will burn through them very quickly.

[StelarCF]

@karlkarl93 if you buy the game, next update you will be able to

[abslutezeroXpie]

the mun is a mod right ?

[trydyingtolive]

@abslutezeroXpie Right now it's in the experimental releases. It will be part of the new .12 version coming out soon.

[karlkarl93]

@abslutezeroXpie Nope, its a update

[stackman1525]

From a MetriCanadian:

It's 400 metres/second.

400 kilometres is Mach 2.

The NavBall would say 4000 m/s, which is guaranteed escape velocity, because there's no orbit low enough to accommodate it.

Great vid, but it arises the OCD Nazi in me :)

[Misterspork57]

I have a challenge for you:

Become a Near-Kerbin Object in orbit around the sun :D. See how long it takes to impact or get flung out of the solar system. Got the idea from that asteroid that came between us and the Moon.

[trydyingtolive]

@Misterspork57 I would but even at max speed it would take foreeeeeever.

[starfox9872]

You should try this on the moon

[trydyingtolive]

@starfox9872 I just have to figure out how :)

[stackman1525]

@starfox9872 You can't. The mün rotates so slowly you'd have to be so far out Kerbin would re-capture you.

[keyofdoornarutorscat]

So now you can stalk one continent all the time!