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Its Slingshot Time


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2 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

E.g., make your burn, shut off your engines, and see how many SOIs you cross with the perfect multiple slingshot trajectory?

Will come down to mods, probably. A bit Traveling Salesman.

yup

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About 200..

Put a spaceship in kerbal orbit, retrograde to MinMus's orbit, and with periapsis around Kerbin of 44750000 and apoapsis of about 49245000. (this is a slightly eccentric orbit, identical period as MinMus, just touching the MinMus SOI near apoapsis and just MISSING Minmus SOI during the periapsis encounter half an orbit later.)

Make sure your Apoapsis occurs during your MinMus encounter.

 

You will have less than 30 seconds on entry into MinMus SOI each orbit, before exiting.

It takes about 200 orbits before your orbit is sufficiently perturbed to deviate away from MinMus, entering chaotic state.

 

 

 

Not what you had in mind, of course, but it matches the criteria of your poorly worded challenge.

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