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Predicted trajectory leaving minmus is wrong


tomf

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When leaving Minmus the prediced orbit in Kerbins's SOI is incorrect. Starting with a rougly circular, equatorial prograde orbit if I use the standard escape of ~190 m/s with the burn in the middle of the kerbin facing side of minmus I should end up with a kerbin orbit with a low PE. However the orbit line was rendered showin an orbit that escaped Kerbins SOI.

Playing around with the manuevre node I found the one shown below which claimed a PE at Kerbin of ~80km. Orbital mechanics tells me this is incorrect. And when I executed the node and warped out of minmus's SOI I found myself on a Kerbin escape trajectory as I would have expected.

 

This screenshot doesn't show it terribly well but I was prevented from creating a better one by a variety of other bugs

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