Simple Game Goals

[LockeCole]

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[LockeCole]

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[Tim_Barrett]

Slowing down for Minmus orbit can actually be confusing and tedious since it takes quite a while of retrograding to close the escape trajectory over what we usually try to orbit (Mun, Kerbin)

[LockeCole]

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[LockeCole]

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[ggPeti]

I\'d also like to suggest sundiving as a very enjoyable and basic mission. Just crash something into the Sun.

Another nice mission is to try using gravity assist. Basically you\'re transferring to the Mun in a way that you\'ll have a low periapsis over it, and observe the resulting trajectory when you escape its gravity.

[LockeCole]

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[LockeCole]

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[ggPeti]

Mun->Minmus slingshot is very possible, there\'s a separate challenge thread for it actually. I\'m also using Mun\'s gravity assist regularly for escaping Kerbin\'s SoI, with a bit of practice and really low periapses you can get a lot of delta-v. Especially if you line up the resulting trajectory with Kerbin\'s orbit around the Sun you can get considerable orbit changes. (You might want to set your CONIC_PATCH_LIMIT in the settings.cfg file to 5 or 6 to see your resulting orbits further ahead. It\'s very useful.)

If you don\'t like the idea of sundiving, a similar challenge in the opposite direction is interstellar flight, i.e. escaping the Sun. (Somewhat easier though, because you just have to do a continuous prograde burn and have an optimal burn profile, whereas in sundiving you can do it with a big retrograde burn but it\'s actually more fuel efficient if you do a bi-elliptic transfer.)

[ggPeti]

(also worth mentioning that you\'d have to imagine some serious life support mechanism aboard the ship and a habitable destination if you\'d want interstellar flight to qualify as survivable, but it\'s still a whole lot more credible that they can survive it than crashing into the surface of a giant thermonuclear sphere at several kilometers a second)