Geostationary Orbits in KSP

[dogon11]

My friend and I want to know the altitude at which geostationary orbits lie in KSP. I want to make a comsat network using the comsat plugin, and I have no idea what he wants to do.

[GWBBQ]

I double checked and sure enough, the KSP wiki has the info you need.

Kerbosynchronous Orbit altitude: 2868.4 km; Kerbostationary Orbit velocity: 1008.9 m/s

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/~kerbalsp/wiki/index.php?title=Kerbin

[Menelmacar]

I highly recommend KSP Orbit Mechanic http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=4707.0 - it contains most of the relevant info on the KSP celestial bodies as well as calculators for circular and elliptical orbits, hohmann and bi-eliptic transfers. It\'s pretty much everything you need for setting up a sat array (helped me loads, especially my half-kerbo-synced comsats which seem to see the most use).

edit: clarity

[Spadde]

Is there a trick to get a exact position over kerbin when in this orbit?

[Cykyrios]

Yup, there is: orbit phasing. This works basically like rendezvous, except there is no target vessel. So you can raise/lower your Ap/Pe a few kilometers and wait until you get where you want to be.

[BlackBicycle]

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=14824.0

Those are called Keostationary, actually : )

[illectro]

Yes let\'s make the terminology clear:

Keostationary - derived from the ancient kerbal latin language name for the planet Kerbin - \'Keo\'

Similarly we get Perikee, Apokee and Keocentric

Some people still say Perikerb or even perigee, but perikerb was coined after Perikee was in common use, and Perigee refers to some mythical planet called Earth.