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A more accurate delta-v map


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Excellent map, thanks!

I like to keep a delta-v map printed out for quick reference, but this one's a little difficult to fit onto a standard 8.5"x11" sheet of paper. Most of it fits, but everything right of laythe (Jool and some text) winds up cut off when I use the standard system dialog (even with "fit to page" checked). It's a small thing, but do you think you could make a version formatted to fit a little better?

Edit: Never mind. I'm dumb. Apparently "fit to page" does exactly the opposite of what I thought it did.

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The number between low Kerbol orbit and Kerbol is what is required to land on Kerbol, not just to hit it. If you only want to hit or flyby a planet, you only need the delta-v up to the transfer orbit that goes to it.

Oh, I was misreading.

Then my complaint is just that low kerbol orbit is cheaper to get to via a bielliptic rather than a hohmann. Or, more generally, that for all maps like this, you need the full matrix to be able to fit the cheapest transfer in (that is particularly the case for the joolian satellites).

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So how do you figure a round-trip, tour of the system, stopping at every planet and moon but not returning to any previous location until the final return to Kerbin?

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So how do you figure a round-trip, tour of the system, stopping at every planet and moon but not returning to any previous location until the final return to Kerbin?

You start a new thread appropriate to such a massive question.

Edit: It looks like someone started one about 30 mins before you posted this. Link here.

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