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Ok. I am completely stumped here. I have 4 Communication Relays <RA-100's> is what should be synchronous to each other orbits. All 4 are set to roughly the same orbital height <you will see their altitudes in the images, I cannot recall off hand, even though I just took these 4 pictures lol> but, the important part is, they are in temporal LOCK STEP at a period of precisely 1 hour 4 minutes 10 seconds EACH. They were roughly equidistant making a rough + sign in orbit where each relay was at the end of each segment of the + sign. I thought I was seeing drift in them as I was doing missions, and dismissed it as me just being jumpy. Turns out, I am seeing drift, and a whole heck of a lot of it. Is my save modded? Yes. Do I think that has something to do with this? No. Why? All parts on the 4 satellites in question are 100% stock parts. The only item in active use to have any mod parts on it is my science station Station 1 and its only got 2 parts from planetary base. Every other part that is in active use on ANYTHING aside from 2 corridor ends is 100% stock KSP <DLC included>. So, can someone who is far smarter than I am at orbital maths please tell me why 4 satellites in IDENTICAL periods at roughly the same orbital height +- 15-20km at MOST on either side what was intended are drifting THIS badly? When I finished launching this 4 satellite array up, number 4 was across from 2 and 1 across from 3, but now? well, I think the images speak for themselves. I have no idea what happened. Not a single 1 is in orbit with any kind of engine on it. All drives were dumped once all 4 were in orbit and I was happy with where they were. Yes, they have RCS, but, despite what the pictures state, they have all been shut down at the blocks themselves. Besides, I dont think RCS is capable of triggering this kind of drift w/out seriously altering the orbits themselves. Am I just glitching or is there something else at play here? 044802102025 -
Hi together I love to deploy multiple satellites on the same orbit. To be sure that they have all the same separation to each other I have to calculate the orbital time for my parking orbit. The most known calculation is to put 3 satellites in a synchronious orbit around Kerbin: (synchronious orbit period / amount of satellites) * (amount of satellites - 1) 1d = 6h = synchronious orbit period (6h / 3) * (3-1) = 4h So park your vessel in a 4h orbit with the AP on the edge of the synchronious orbit. Deploy every pass on the AP one satellite. When done correct you have a nice triangle around Kerbin. So i love to do that on other bodies and in other (non-synchronious) orbits. So I had to do the math all the time. Now I've made a little calculator and will make this accessable for all of the community which needs this. So feel free to use it! http://www.omfg.ch/ksp/sdoc Its very simple and doen't check if your orbital period goes into a collision with the celestial body. So check first :). Edit: Here an example: I cheated my craft with 4 satellites into a random eeloo orbit and calculated the values: -
Hi, i have the physics quite oxidized, and i was wondering if an orbital period, and therefore the average orbital speed of any celestial body is related to its mass. Im quite sure it is not, but i dont know what are the factors that determine an orbit of a planet and its orbital velocity. A) For example, is venus and mars orbits were switched, would their orbits tend to vary in any direction? B) Every celestial body (in the same star system) with 24.000 mts/sec will have quite similar orbits. Is this always true? C) Is the distance to the center of mass (the sun) what determines orbital period and speed? Only that? Thanks!
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