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Yes, I know someone (Rich) already tried that, but it was with the desktop app. Now there is an amazing web mission control, which is powerful AND very easy to setup. Here it is: github.com/nasa/openmctweb. And here is a detailed tutorial on how to set it up. You should try it just to launch the server and see how powerful it is. Now we would need someone to create all the bundles that a KSP mission control would use, using Telemachus and GATU, so the user could use them and create the perfect mission control screen. For example we could have a GATU's "big screen" widget, graphs subscribed to TM telemetry data, a camera widget... Honestly I'd do it myself but I know very little about js and have no time to work on it Any thoughts or questions ?

Sounds awesome ! Could you make it work with ckan please ?

Any intention on getting this to work with GoAtThrottleUp ? Thanks for this mod you're awesome ! =)

Everything this guy said, it really echoes my thought about the tier 1. The concept would perfectly fits the Kerbals IMO so yes, I would love to see these models back in the game. There was just too much thought put on this by the devs, it'd be sad if it was for nothing, heck the tier 1 won't be seen this long so having a very thoughtful and funny ksc would be great..

You mean for ORS ? I thought it was randomized when they created the mod, not when it's loaded. Don't know for sure. Yep that's something that could be added to characteristics, didn't think of that. Oh I posted every source I used, except for one I couldn't find. But I don't understand, you want me to say in the thread what I used along with the OPs ? And yeah thanks, that looks great...

I had this ambitious project for a looong time in my head, and was inspired by the books astronauts have in their spaceships : a printable book containing all the infos, tables, charts so you can plan every steps of your mission, from constructing to landing on another planet. This is without a doubt my favorite aspect of KSP, being able to plan ahead thanks to math, so I became obsessed gathering all the existing tools to do so. I thought I'll have enough time to construct it during the summer holidays, but no. School starts tomorrow and as of now it is incomplete, maybe people can finish it, please read on. The KSPedia Things it has For every body on the Kerbol, the book features (purposely in this order, construction --> landing): The body main physical characteristics (SOI, radius, gravitational parameter...) Maps : Terrain map, anomalies, slopes, Kethane, Karbonite Parachutes charts : calculate given your ship's mass and the touchdown you want the amount of parachute you'll need. Made by ThePsuedoMonkey, more info here Aerocapture chart : can't seem to find the original thread/author here... Ideal altitude charts for all the scanning/resource systems (Scansat, ORS...) : made by Technogeeky, more info here INCOMPLETE Ideal altitude tables for all the scanning/resource : made by Technogeeky, more info here Darkness time in orbit charts (for the batteries) : made by me for the project, more info here Landing charts : made by alterbaron, more info here Things to be done OK as you can see we're missing quite a bit of stuff, this is where the community is going to help. Quick note on what needs to be done : The maps. I tried but the scanning for all the terrain/resources was taking way too long. I suggest exporting the maps from ScanSat v>7, so we can have all the resources. Unless you already scanned the body and export the maps in highres, we may need the help of technogeeky (author of ScanSat Ideal scanner altitude charts : when I made it only the scansat scanners charts were done, we'll need those for ORS and the others he made. They're right here. Ideal scanner altitude table : essential to know the inclination, total scanning time and many many more. On the same thread as the charts. Landing charts. These. Are. Essentials. Use for precise landing, unfortunately the charts are low res and not easily readable, someone needs to redo these using his Matlab script. Original thread here, let me know if you need help with Matlab, a style similar to the parachutes/darkness time charts would be perfect. If you'd like to complete the project, here's the docx. Fonts used are OCR A Std for the names and Calibri corps in italic for the rest. So yeah, I won't hear the sweet intro song of kerbal space program until probably a few months from now, and I won't be able to work on the book too. I really do hope you will enjoy my work, and that a few of you will continue it. Fly safe.

Wonderful! Thank you geeky I'll try the new code asap!

Another thing: I wanted to generate the tables myself but the code you put on github doesn't seem to be working, it gave me this error right after the planet name input. Scanner name? Multi[SCAN Multispectral Sensor] Ideal Altitude Calculator. Planet name? Kerbin Error in ==> parsePlanetInfo at 3 if nargin < 2 ??? Output argument "Planets" (and maybe others) not assigned during call to "C:\...\MapSatAltitude-master\parsePlanetInfo.m>parsePlanetInfo". Error in ==> MapSatAltitude at 152 planets = parsePlanetInfo(); I started using matlab this week so I'm having a hard time understanding your code, is there something I'm missing ? Thanks in advance for your help.

I think the problem was with Karbonite, I had Karbonite-0.1.2 while apparently the latest is Karbonite_0.1.2 and I kept "0.1.2" in my mod list.

Alright my bad, reinstalling each mods fixed it, maybe I wasn't running the latest version.

Of course, I reproduced everything that you did.

See this : http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Orbit_darkness_time#Limitations As far as the SOI is this shouldn't make a big difference, the sun's rays are parallel and it's sufficient to work out how many batteries will be needed.

I can't get the Karbonite to show up on the maps, neither the Kethane resource. I'm using the last version of all mods but can't figure out what's happening... Any idea ? And what would you need (mod list, screenshots...) to determine my problem ? I'm on x64 by the way. Thanks in advance for your help.

Wouldn't referring to the parent planet be sufficient ? Because sometime the scale on the Y axis for a moon will not be enough to show that horizontal line. But that's a good idea I'll look into it.

Look at this : The further you go the longer the black part will be.

I don't understand: why would the time in orbit around a moon will be different than the time we can find on the parent's body? I tried looking for a different formula but can't find any.

Glad I could help!

Thanks for your help, I forgot to check the tables...

Thanks, it took me quite a while to do. Yes the time is in second, as you can see on Y axis label.

I became obsessed with planning every bit of a mission using calculators, charts or anything to stop putting thing at random. But I would always put so many batteries... So I made those charts to find out how much time your ship will spend in darkness for every body in the Kerbol system and it includes the synchronous orbit as well as the moons altitudes for reference, and it has been calculated for circular orbit. I made those charts using a MATLAB script, I wanted to get my hand around it and it turned out pretty well. Hope these we'll be useful for ya!

A quick question regarding the plots, what about the inclination ? Is it a polar or equatorial orbit ?

Did you ever posted a link ?

Awesome. I love the animation, but there is actually no point to open it right ? I mean are the resources in the wedge used when you are in the pod or is it only used to take on EVAs ?

Actually I'm pretty sure it's Matlab, but thanks for your help I'll sure give it a try!

Thank you for these charts! Just wondering, what soft did you use to make the graphs ?