tengu-mai

Firstly: thanks for the helpful suggestions! I was inspired to attempt this by an animation on the kerbal wiki. It must be nice to be so unencumbered by OCD. Yes, this is pretty much what I expected/was afraid of. This sounds like precisely the correct answer, and one which is likely to have some challenging math to go along with it. I've never calculated Hohmann transfers before. In fact, I have absolutely no history in astronomy or astrodynamics, so here are a couple more basic questions. If I understand correctly, each of my polar-orbiting satellites is orbiting along a right ascension line. Is that correct? Does the KSP user interface display the information required for me to determine the hour-offset of my satellite so that I can insure two different satellites are proceeding along the same right ascension? This is an excellent suggestion! Very practical and sounds like it should be effective.

Mind blown. This never occurred to me as remotely possible. Wow.

Hi. I am trying to achieve the following: 8 relay satellites, each in a Kerbin polar orbit (90 degree inclination) 4 different orbital paths, 2 sats per path. Each path is 45 degrees rotated (LAN) In each path, the 2 sats are opposite each other (e.g. 1 at north pole, 1 at south pole) I don't care about altitude, provided they all use the same. I can get pretty close by doing the following: Set my altitude to 1581.76 (semi-geosynchronous) Launch all 8 sats at intervals of 44 minutes, 53 seconds (one eighth of a sidereal day) Launch the first four sats at 90 deg inclination Launch the second four sats at -90 deg inclination This gets me really really close, but my (main) problem is that the launch pad is not exactly on the equator, so the sats launched northbound achieve a slightly different orbit than the ones launched southbound. Is there an easy way to compensate for this? How close might I get if I calculate the duration needed to fly to the equator, then add half of it to my launch time in one direction, and subtract half of it from my launch time in the other direction?