MatixCubix

When that happened I pressed the windows button and I re-opened ksp, and it was fine, just minimize and re-open

Oh ok, that makes sense, so the specifc heat dosen't matter at all if we are talking of that type of heat shield?

Oh, ok but lets talk using energy, so we can agree, when the spacecraft goes into a colission trajectory towards the atmosphere, it has some kinetic energy and some gravitational energy, as it goes down, part of the potential energy is transfomed into kinetic, when the spacecraft possitions itself to reentry, and starts, it starts to gain heat energy, part lost from the kinetic energy, now due to the material of the heat shield that I assume that would have a great specific heat, its tempeture wouldn't raise as much as so if I put another material with lower specific heat, now when you said that "no matter how high the temperature, has very low actual heat stored in it" you mean that in fact due that because a low fraction of the mass of the heat shield was exposed then its energy would still be low or you mean that the specific heat of the heat shield was low, another thing, returing what I said about energy, well part of the kinetic energy is transformed into heat energy, where is heat energy? is acumulating in the first layer of the heat shield or is dissipating in form of radiation, of what you said I would assume that part of the heat was dissipated because, you said that it would't be so "hot" but brings the question if conductivity 0 exists, haha

Oh, ok thanks, another thing, is the heat shield directly connected (if connected) to the spacecraft, or there is another layer of some other material between them?

Hi, I was wondering about the Heat Shields that the spacecraft use when it decend from space, Well, I have a question about how the heat dissipates and gets transmitted through the heat shield, I know that it should have alot of specific heat so it its tempeture dosent increase to much, but what really intrigues me is how is the conductivity of the heat shield I really dont know. Are there different forms of heat shields? how different they are from each other?

Well this is very odd, my game crashes in the loading screen, idk why, if someone could tell me why or if I miss an Installation, I would be rather happy Btw, I dont have any other mods installed.

Yes indeed, this really need to be implemented, it would give you a really good mood

Astronomy, Astrophysics and I would take clases of programing

Wait how is that total momentum?

Yeah, when I referred to the two orbits the more eccentric orbit was the result of the diversion created by the acceleration, so when I said that the two do not interact is because in reality there is only one Sorry for dont explaining that

Hi I am from Chile, South America and I would like to present myself in the formus, I play Kerbal space program since it was at 0.17 but I wanted the game since 0.16 so in that time I would play with the old demo, when I found the game the name just made me laugh, and I found it really interesting and quite awsome cause I really love Physics and Astronomy, the idea of creating your rocket, launching it, making an orbit in real big rendered planet, and landing anywhere you want was pretty amazing for me, I also think is a really good way of learning about orbital mechanics if you have time enough, I must spend like 1200 hours on kerbal space program ( having 400 hours on steam). Is good to add that this is a really reputated game, because it might be dificult for some people who dont have experience with previous flight simulator games and you really need to be good to have really stupid thing that might seem easy in other games, I hope this game grows up so it can be more amazing of what is now. I am quite fan of Kerbal Space Program

Yes, I got a little confused by that statment I said , you are correct, the statment I said is only available if it is a liniar movment (and dosen´t come back later at the original place that was accelerated). Imagine we have a system of 2 orbits and the celestial objects orbiting we have, do not interact gravitationally ( because in this example the 2 orbits are the 2 probabilities of orbits that we can have if and if not we launch the rocket) , well let´s say that one orbit is more excentrical than the other and the periapsis (because the excentrical orbit apoapsis is higher than the other orbit apoapsis) of the more excentrical orbit passes through the first orbit trayectory, the distance of both would have a pattern and they might even crash if we had enough time, now lets imagine we have another celstial object that interacts with both, and it has a higher orbit rotating the same way as the others, the more excentrical orbit would be more close to this orbit and it would cause a more stronger gravity assist and this would cause a much more different orbit than the original, so in conclusion the change of the orbit would be variable(if we have the masses constant) by the speed of both object and the distance between both. I got confused when you said year, is year an entire rotation of the new orbit? or is it a time period?

Ha, I would put a gigant canon powered by antimatter, I would create a capsule with an indestructable material, I would create a medical treatment for astronauts for making them capable of resisting alot of G's, And I would shoot them to mars Probably a bad idea... lol Julio Verne Ftw

Well, This perfect orbit is more like an orbit in the future If the rocket didnt launch, now as most people here might know, a little change in speed over an enormous lapse of time, would create a quite different distance from the original without that acceleration (this is wrong for orbits) Edited ,And is important to add that gravity follows the R^2 so a change in distance between 2 celestial objects (for ex: Earth and jupiter) would create a quite difference also in the attraction between both, and thus changing alot more its original orbit.