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Spaghetti Trajectory Challenge


StevieC

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The challenge: Once in low-Kerbin orbit and you've matched planes with Minmus, position a maneuver-node to allow you, with only one burn, to put your spacecraft on a free-return trajectory around minmus, BUT! also get an encounter with the Mün between escaping from Minmus and Kerbin periapsis. Bonus points if you can have the Mün encounter slingshot you in a way that allows even more gravitational assist maneuvers. Basically, start in low Kerbin orbit matched with Minmus' orbital plane. From that plane-matched low-Kerbin orbit, perform ONE engine-burn with as many gravitational encounters/escapes as possible without any extra engine-burns.

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I'll append a guideline. It's probably not a crazy enough trajectory unless you're forced to exit the game and tweak the limit on patched conics in the game's settings.cfg file. Not a requirement, but a good rule-of-thumb. I want to see screenshots with the trajectory prediction turned into a rainbow of different curved lines for each SoI

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