Fastest Time to Orbit Minmus and Land Safely

[mustwinfull]

Well...it is always good to learn. Maybe you could use that method and beat his/her's time?

[ramipro]

Okay, just tried it, and it is definitely possible. I got to Minmus orbit in about eight hours, and with a bit of good piloting, sure you can get lower. Also worth noting, it is very fuel consuming. I couldn't land because of that

[maltesh]

Aye, that's the spirit. As rampiro's done, I'd definitely recommend doing a test flight to get an idea of just how long it's going to take you to come to a stop once you near Mimus' orbital altitude, and plan to have at least that much fuel left when you finally put the brakes on.

I'm not saying it's fake, I was just asking how you did it to learn. I'm not a rocket engineer, and I obviously don't know all the options. So you basically overshot the Minmus orbit and then slowed down when you got there?

Yep, that's basically it. The more speed you pour into your spacecraft when low, the larger the fraction of that speed you keep when high. If I'd missed Minmus, I probably would have still had over 1.5 km/s of velocity relative to kerbin when I exited Kerbin's SOI.

One of the nice things that worked out, is that, when I was close to Minmus' orbit, Kerbin's gravity wasn't slowing me down much, so it got a lot easier to eyeball what I was aiming for with the intercept. I was moving about eight times Minmus' orbital velocity, so I started aiming to intercept at a point that was about eight times farther from my spacecraft than from Minmus/ I still didn't manage to find the SOI until about two hours from landing, though.

[ramipro]

Just finished my "successful" landing and got under a day! Exactly 16:33:24! It worked out not so much well, and I think I´ll make a rescue mission, but that'll be another day

[mustwinfull]

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