Keosynchronous Orbit

[Ticondrius]

I spent awhile trying to figure out what exact orbit is precisely at keosynchronous orbit.

It is almost EXACTLY at 2,868,750.0055 meters. My surface speed at this point is a mere 300-400 micro-meters/sec. It would take centuries to have any perceptible shift from the point over which you park in that orbit.

Good luck!

[EnricoAlva]

Wow, thanks for the info.

Are you using ion engines to make the corrections?

I cant get that level of accuracy with my current probe design

[AmpsterMan]

I don't mean to be a jerk, but for future reference you can look stuff up here

[Tfin]

Or do it the fun way.

[reptile2001]

Nothing wrong at all with someone wanting to figure something out on their own without resorting to a Wiki; and being proud of it and wanting to share it when they do!

[Tw1]

The wiki has a different figure. I'm going to take this guy's figure for future launches.

[CoriW]

The wiki has a different figure. I'm going to take this guy's figure for future launches.

Yep I'm sure that 0.0055 meters makes all the difference!

[Tw1]

It's about 2 meters different

[CoriW]

It's about 2 meters different

Really?

He said "2,868,750.0055 meters"

Wiki says "2,868.75 km"

Let's convert the wiki one to meters... "2,868,750 meters"

Add a few decimals to match this guys number... "2,868,750.0000 meters"

That looks only 0.0055 meters difference to me...

[Tw1]

Hold on, you're right. Derp.

Umm... *blames Jeb. Or the Kraken*

[CoriW]

Hold on, you're right. Derp.

Umm... *blames Jeb. Or the Kraken*

We can always blame Jeb! Or at least... Bill can. xD

[bsalis]

Unity uses single precision numbers (32 bit). I'm not even sure you would get 4 decimal places on a number that size.

[Ticondrius]

I knew about the wiki. However, it still leaves you with about 0.2m/sec surface speed. Doing the extra work to add on the 0.0055 precision reduces the surface speed to almost nil, and shows up at 0.0m/sec surface speed. Mostly for perfectionists.

[Malaugrym]

Thanks very much for this. Perfect for RemoteTech

[GalaxyGryphon]

it sounds like it would be very annoying to get it positioned over the spot you want

[Malaugrym]

It isn't so bad with an ion engine, just finished setting up a new network with the new number. Worked like a charm. Clicked on my universal time machine(probe in solar orbit) and waited fifty years. No noticeable drift.

[Fel]

Unity uses single precision numbers (32 bit). I'm not even sure you would get 4 decimal places on a number that size.

But Squad rewrote some of that to use double precision numbers.

[NeoMorph]

5.5mm Wow... Now that's what you call OCD in KSP.

It isn't so bad with an ion engine, just finished setting up a new network with the new number. Worked like a charm. Clicked on my universal time machine(probe in solar orbit) and waited fifty years. No noticeable drift.

That's only due to being on-rails when you test that. You could run it to the heat death of the universe and it would still be in synch (although the aliens would have invaded by then).

Edited May 20, 2013 by NeoMorph

[Specialist290]

Hopefully his probes don't sneeze