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deployed vessel orbit dragged during timewarp


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I'm not sure how else to describe this, but I'm consistently getting some really weird effects with comm sats I deploy. I jettison them Normal to the plane of the orbit, then modify the orbit of my deployment vessel for a 2:3 resonance orbit. When I warp back to apo it's like the main vessel passing by the deployed vessel has some bizarre gravitational effect that drags the deployed sat into a weird highly elliptical orbit. The little deployed sat had been in a nearly perfectly circular orbit ever so slightly inclined from the parent craft due to the deployment force, has no motors other than RCS, and RCS was turned off for it - so it shouldn't be under much force ata ll. In this most recent case I was in a high orbit above Minmus (around 1K km), so it's not like Minmus would have much effect. I saw the same thing while deploying sats around the Mun. Sometimes all goes well, sometimes I slingshot the poor little com sat right out of the SOI.

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