how do i even get to another planet?

[alline1999]

Hello evryone

i just made this thread becuas i dont know how to get in an orbit around another planet like for me to got to mun and minmus is fine its just going to other planets like Eve Duna and the others like poeple use all those complicated math and they calculate whats called the phase angle and stuff but i dont know what the phase angle even means and what i can do what that number so if anyone coald explain it to me or link a mod that makes it eazyer to go to another planet withoud having to know those complicated therms.

(sory if my english words arnt speld correct)

[ElJugador]

http://www.kerbal.net/mod.php?id=36

that helps. assuming someone else has posted.

The phase angle is just the place in your orbit you need to be for a burn. I think.

[Aphox]

Planetary Phase Angle, as far as KSP goes, is the angle of your target planet in relation to Kerbin, your planet. Think of it like a clock, and Kerbin is at 3 o' clock, and Duna is at 12 o' clock. Duna's planetary phase angle would be 90 degrees. According to the interplanetary calculator at http://ksp.olex.biz/, ideal phase angle for Duna interception and capture is 44.36 degrees, which is an acute angle, which is slightly over halfway between 12 and 3 on the clock. A picture is shown on that website describing what I mean.

Ejection or escape angle is a little hard to describe. If you zoom way out in map view, you'll see an orbit line coming out of every planet. That is the planet's prograde. It follows that line.

Your ejection angle is the angle of your ship in relation to that line on a vertical axis. The website also shows pictures. The blue line coming out of Kerbin in the picture is Kerbin's prograde, and that angle is where your ship needs to be for a proper ejection to occur in order to achieve an encounter.

An easier way to see Kerbin's prograde as by looking at the shadow. It's basically always line up with Kerbin's prograde. The shadow follows the same direction as the prograde line, at least when you're zoomed in that far.

The new MechJeb beta .dll gives very accurate, detailed information about phase angle and ejection angle if you wish to download it. You can find it in the KSP mod forums under plugin-powered mods.

http://www.kerbal.net/mod.php?id=36

Also that. Truncated the rest of the post for convenience.

[EndlessWaves]

If you can get to the Minmus then the same technique will work for the planets, all the launch angle stuff is just to speed up the process so you intercept on your first orbit.