Orbit Cheats

[Getgotyeet]

Now, You know how to use the cheat menu, right? well, houston, we have a problem, i wanna set orbit around kerbin, but when i do, it just flies in a straight line, into nothingness, Help me find the right numbers (i was too lazy too put everything) So i can launch a satellite

[DeadJohn]

Semi-major axis (SMA) equals the distance from the center (not the surface) of Kerbin to the orbital height. If you want to orbit at an exact altitude above the surface, look up Kerbin's radius, add that to the altitude you want, and enter that as the SMA.

Or, if you just want to get into orbit quickly, set SMA to a ridiculously low number like "1". KSP will warn you that it's too low and automatically adjust it to the minimum safe altitude. Keep all the other numbers at zero and you'll have a circular orbit above the equator.

Set inclination to 90 degrees for a polar rather than equatorial orbit. As to why your satellite flew away from orbit, you may have entered an eccentricity >= 1.0. That will create a flyby rather than an orbit.

Optional reading at https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Orbit. That includes further links for even more reading. If circular orbits are good for you, though, you can skip it.

[jimmymcgoochie]

Did you fly off into nothingness at incredibly high speed, completely out of the solar system? If yes then you hit a 'kraken' a.k.a. a catastrophic physics bug that can't be recovered from. Best to reload the game and try again.

Make sure you don't have 'hack gravity' switched on as that can mess things up too, if you're at 10x gravity then it will set orbit at the speed you need to go at to orbit at 10x gravity, then switching it back to 1x gravity will send you flying off out of Kerbin's SOI; conversely if you have gravity set lower e.g. 0.01g, then it'll go incredibly slowly and switching off hack gravity will cause it to immediately fall out of the sky.

[Getgotyeet]

Thank you guys!