Question about the mechanics of the solar system

[cuddlyogre]

The physics in the game work pretty realistically, much to my detriment at times. My question is, are the planets affected by physics? Say if I strapped enough rockets on Mun, could I affect its orbit or is it static in the orbit that it has?

[Panichio]

Yeah, sorry, I think the celestial bodies will be on 'rails' all the time. So your space program will have to find something else to do to pass the time.

[Guest butt head]

you can not adjust there orbits like that no but there are challenges that say to smash the biggest thingy at the highest speed in to the mun or minmus to knock it out of its orbit but thats just for fun so no you cant move them they are on a "rail"

[cuddlyogre]

Bummer. I guess my plans for planetary havoc are for naught.

[illectro]

You can figure out that you need a lot of fuel to adjust even Minmus orbit significantly. as in millions of fuel tanks.

[Killerblonde]

If they do take the planets 'off rails', then you could slowly adjust orbits with maybe a few solar powered ion drives pushing on the surface. Keep them firing with 'unlimited' solar energy while you're off doing other things, speeding up time, etc., you'd maybe change their orbit a tiny bit over time. Pretty useless though, because it'd take forever and the devs would have to add physics for planetary collisions and what not.

[spikeyhat09]

the devs would have to add physics for planetary collisions and what not.

Yeah, what would happen if minmus crashed into KSC? game over? You have to buy another copy of KSP?

[sal_vager]

spikeyhat09, Jeb, Bob and Bill would have to get their spoons out, there'd be mint ice cream everywhere