Make the smallest RCS thruster do something interesting

[Pds314]

In 1.11, some truly tiny RCS thrusters were added with only 200 N of force. They are truly pathetic-sized engines and completely unsuitable for anything but fine adjustments and docking, and even then you need to be patient.

 

Your goal is to do something else with these engines besides fine adjustments or docking. Preferably with as few of them as possible. Maybe even just one engine?

There is no scoring just do something you consider impressive with these engines other than rotation and docking.

[Starhelperdude]

how about a duna or tylo ssto? kerbin ssto would be basically impossible

[Spaceman.Spiff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNExvvofnA

not mine, just a cool use case

Edited February 11, 2021 by Spaceman.Spiff

[Pds314]

19 hours ago, Spaceman.Spiff said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNExvvofnA

not mine, just a cool use case

That's an amazing vehicle lol.

[WarpPrime]

Hmmm, if mods are allowed we could make a model rocket out of one...

... A truly bad*** (I needed to follow the Guidelines) model rocket, of course!

[Srpadget]

Is there some way to throttle them down?  They're still too powerful for my candidate use unless they can be throttled down.

My comsat network wants TINY stationkeeping motors for miniscule worlds like Minmus and Gilly.  I've been using Ant engines thrust-limited all the way down to 0.5%, then using the shortest bursts of minimal throttle I can make my fingers do (one hand on the Shift key, the other on the X, and hitting them nigh-simultaneously).  But even with that, I have to be clever about things like burning mostly out-of-plane to get the radial and/or prograde thrust-vector components small enough to be useful.

Mind you, a network of comsats with orbits that are all 1) perfectly circular to within a meter and 2) identical to each other to within a meter?  Not sure that's going to count as "impressive" to anyone except me...

Edited March 12, 2021 by Srpadget

[Blaarkies]

4 hours ago, Srpadget said:

make my fingers do (one hand on the Shift key, the other on the X, and hitting them nigh-simultaneously).

Try holding down Ctrl, then tap Shift once. The throttle will immediately be pulled back to 0%.

To get a smaller thrust force, you can aim away from prograde (aim halfway to ), that should give you an "effective" thrust that is only half. It will of course mess up your inclination, but you can take turns aiming halfway towards , and then 

[Srpadget]

On 3/12/2021 at 1:44 AM, Blaarkies said:

Try holding down Ctrl, then tap Shift once. The throttle will immediately be pulled back to 0%.

To get a smaller thrust force, you can aim away from prograde (aim halfway to ), that should give you an "effective" thrust that is only half. It will of course mess up your inclination, but you can take turns aiming halfway towards , and then 

I had figured out the normal/antinormal strategy, but I had not thought of the Ctrl-Shift trick.  I'll have to try that with my next comsat-constellation deployment!  Thanks!