Mycroft

I’m sorry! I just saw that my question was answered above. Never mind!

I was wondering if you had to use Ions for the liftoff from KSC? I’m launching a rocket to go to the mun with normal take off, but switches to use 20 Ions for the interplanetary stage. Is that legal?

Thank you!

I make rockets too ridiculously big. On this one, the orbital stage has 20 ions with 7290 units of Xenon for each, requiring 8 Gigantors and 28701 units of ElectricCharge. How would I make smaller rockets with the same range?

Meanwhile, I’ll just launch craft weighing un at a ridiculous 1100 tons...

Okay, thanks! I was wondering if you knew two things: 1: How high does Eve’s atmosphere extend, and 2: roughly the best periapsis for an atmospheric capture? Thanks, Mycroft. P.s. My craft is unmanned. It came from a campaign to land on the mun and me missing the transfer burn.

I’m discovering how easy it is to accidentally get a sun orbit, so I’m going to try an interplanetary expedition. Sooooooo, does Eve have an atmosphere?

Mun flyby successful! Unfortunately the resulting encounter with the Mun slung my ship on to an exponentially larger orbit, with an Apoapsis of 14 thousand km, and a Periapsis of 3 thousand. I am doing a continuous de-orbit burn for now

I’m burning at the AN, and it’s working. Yay!

Will do. Thanks. Do I need an account there?

Here’s my ship. It’s called ‘Space Station 4’ file:///Users/ryan/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202016-02-12%20at%204.54.00%20PM.png I’m not sure if the link works

Hi guys I’m new, but I wanted to share my first-ish space station. It’s not much, but I like it. It's rather small next to the super-cool stations I can see on the thread, I’m afraid. file:///Users/ryan/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202016-02-12%20at%204.54.00%20PM.png I’m not entirely sure if the link works.

Thank you guys so much for your help! I really appreciate it. Before I read your posts, I was doing burns at normal attitude near the apoapsis, figuring that since that was where my velocity was lowest, it would be the best place to do an orbital adjustment. It sort of worked, but I am still off target so I will definitely be trying your suggestions. For PacThePhoenix, YouTube refuses to work on my computer for some reason. :( Dman979, you are probably right that my rocket is huge, maybe too huge. But unfortunately, it is ridiculously under powered with 8 ion engines providing 0.03 g’s at full thrust, and 36100 possible units of XenonGas. The delta-V for it is very small. I tried to just increase the Apoapsis, but the burn also affected the Periapsis in a limited fashion. (the Apoapsis is 11x the Periapsis) I have yet to figure out how I can change the Apoapsis without affecting the Periapsis at all. It would make de-orbit burns one heck of a lot easier with these engines. Thank you! As I said earlier, I will certainly use it Thank you so much for that little cheat-sheet! I will be using that. By the way, I have already set up successfull Mun orbits in Sandbox with a gargantuan (IMHO) rocket. Thank you. I want to save as much fuel as possible for the long de-orbit burn, and I am getting close the limit of the fuel I allotted for orbital maneuvering. Also by the way, thanks to everyone for explaining MechJeb. That was rather confusing to me, as I have never tried the mods. Thanks, Mycroft

Who is MechJeb? Is he Jebediah? Or is that a dumb question? (the kind I’m good at)

Hi, I am new to KSP, and I am attempting a moon fly-by. I was able to reach the correct altitude (Apoapsis: 11,537,900 to 11,538,250 or so; Periapsis: 1,503,890 to 1,503,100 or so) with my spacecraft by using the low powered ion engines over a long period but it is on the wrong plane with the ascending node being 16.1 degrees and descending node being -16.1 degrees. When I am at the moon’s altitude, I find I am well south of my target. How would I fix this? Thanks, Mycroft