iamthemoose

Maybe when career mode appears on the horizon, then this would be worthwhile. In the mean-time there are more pressing issues. Cool suggestion, none-the-less.

I was planning a burn for Duna when I realized that the maneuver planner is not fully capable for this sort of thing. You have to zoom out to the point where Kerbin (and your flight path) are next to invisible in order to see any other planet, so fine-tuning the escape burn is maddening - at least, this has been my experience. If you veterans have another perspective, I'd love to hear it. Maybe there's a mod for this I should use? To improve this, I suggest that a large analog of your flight path (visible from any scale) is superimposed over Kerbin's location when you are using the maneuver planner while zoomed far out. This would help users like myself to optimize these burns. Another benefit is that Kerbin's pro- and retro-grade vectors are easily seen at these scales. I feel these changes may help make the maneuver planner even more robust than it is. If there is something I'm missing that would make this issue irrelevant, please let me know.

Thanks for the replies! Sorry if I came across as pretentious earlier. This helps clear things up. Thanks! Now if only I could change the prefix in the original post...

I had a similar situation earlier with Engineer where my rocket lost ~3000m/s dV when I changed something insignificant.

My apologies for reposting this. I was unable to find my old thread after posting it, and got no views or responses after several hours. I appreciate your feedback. Have an awesome day!

Zero views after several hours. Bumping for visibility.

Hello, I've got a couple of questions concerning decouplers. To give some context, what I'm attempting to do is launch a satellite into orbit and decouple with the right velocity and apoapsis so that the additional force from the decoupler carries the satellite into a circular orbit (hopefully leaving the debris behind to fall back into atmo). My questions are as follows: 1. Is the decoupler force applied to both sides, or split between the two? ex. If I put a 100kN decoupler onto a rocket and separate, does each side receive a 100kN force, or a 50kN force? 2. Disregarding mass, is there any reason to avoid using a decoupler of the wrong size? Would a larger decoupler connected to a small section/satellite/whatever apply a smaller force (when compared to a smaller decoupler of equal force), since there would be empty space? Or are there no differences other than aesthetics and mass? 3. Is there any significant difference in behavior in atmospheric conditions as opposed to a vacuum? I appreciate your feedback. Have an awesome day!