bandi94

Thx. I will tweak it around 0.1s it's not a problem with the fuel, satellites have ion-engines ( with one tank ,so they can work almost 30 min at full throttle). And thx for the percentage calculation methode it is indeed a good way to calculate the drift. I calculated it and with a 0.1s it will take somewhere around 450 day's to drift out of the antena range. Almos perfect so i will try to tweak them as much as i can.

Hy. ATM i started to add some satellites on kerbin orbit ( second attempt , first one ended up with a big de-sync only after 3 day's) . I want to keep them sync. with each other ( i have 4 ) , they are almost on the same orbit. Two of them have a 0.15s orbital period difference one of them 1s difference and the last one has a + 10s difference. Now is this close enought to keep them almost on the same formation for a time , well maybe the last one with +10s will be a problem? And is there any approximative value to keep them in place , i think under one secound is fine ( it will take very much time to drift a significant distance ) , but what about 10s ? Also i tried to search some formula to calculate the drift distance in time but with no luck , i mean i know that the orbital period is X , i have a Y difference and the current distance between them is 2Mm so let's say i want to know the drift distance after 5 day's ? As an example it will give me 2.01Mm so i know that in 5 day's i will have a 0.01Mm drift distance. Thx.

Thx, that Plugin look's very useful. Well i have 4 satellites with comm16 orbiting kerbin at 1Mm , i want to place 3 more on Mun orbit somewhere around 750km ( i will use them for some rover's so if i will lose the signal somewhere on the back-side of the Mun it would be not a big problem) , after that place 2 more on a high kerbin orbit in range of the comm16 from the first orbiting satellites so it will be around 2-2.5Mm those 2 would be long range satellites picking signal from the lower orbiting satellites and relay the signal with long range dish, anyway on that orbit ( 2-2.5Mm ) i think 2 sats are enough to cover everthing without a black-out spot from kerbin blocking the signal. P.S. I downloaded KS's modepack and it have some nice battery packets they look very nice on the sats. Slow i will send more and more sats to expand and make a stable connection.

One more question . I managed to put the satellites on orbit with a +/- 0.2m/s difference ( a personal record after a dozen of burns ) is this enough to keep them sync for some time or i will end up with a de-sync ? The distance between them is +/- 2.2Mm the Sat-Sat antena is a 2.5Mm range so i have a bit of gamble space. Thx. And i will study the pole positioning to.

Thx for both of you. Well i think my first round of satellites will have more batteries , the eccentric orbit will need more sat sync to cover the Mun ( i think ) and how i am on the begin with the game i have all the chance to fail , anyway when i get more exp with the game i will send more satellites and try new thing's. Well i dont use BTSM , but i use TecLife and MKS for the life support realism.

Hy. I started playing in career mod few day's ago , after that i found this mod which gives a bit more realistic feel to the game. So i started experimenting with satellites to set up a stable connection around Kerbin. Now i did that with 4 satellites on a 1Mm Orbit they work very well i have no black-out or something similar. I did this with Communotron 16 ( Satellite-Satellite , Satellite - Command Center ) and Comms DTS-M1 for Satellite - Mun communication. Now in career mode i don't have the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator ( almost the last part in tech tree) only Photovoltaic Panels so on the night side of Kerbin i am 100% on battery power so each satellite have 6 x Z-200 battery to have enought energy. The problem is that i want to place 3 satellite on Mun orbit but the Mun have a bigger night side after a rough calculation i will need 10 x z-200 battery to have enought energy on the night side. Is there any other orbit configuration to get a smaller night side or to get the smallest black-out spot possible. If not i think i need to rely only on the day side of the Mun and have a complet black-out on the night-side and use the flight-computer for all executions on the dark side. Thx for any good tip .