Maneuver Nodes to Calculate Gravity assist

[astroadrian99]

Hey guys I had a suggestion for the game that might be very helpful. I saw on the internet the other days that Juno got a gravity assist from earth to get to Jupiter so I found out that, that is the most efficient way to reach other planets but when I tried it in KSP, I found out that the maneuver node only shows a max of three gravity encounters (where it changes color yellow,purple,green) so if I wanted a gravity assist from eve to get to duna all I would see is the escape from kerbin (yellow), kerbol orbit (purple) and then the eve encounter (green) but I can't see anymore, so I won't know if Eve will give me a gravity assist to Duna or not.

Also was wondering if there is somewhere a calculator like this one but that it can show multiple angles to be able to use the gravity assist method.

[TinfoilChef]

An easy fix for this is to open your settings.cfg (located in your ksp directory). Find CONIC_PATCH_LIMIT and change it to a higher number. I typically use 5 or 6. this will show more future SOI changes

[astroadrian99]

An easy fix for this is to open your settings.cfg (located in your ksp directory). Find CONIC_PATCH_LIMIT and change it to a higher number. I typically use 5 or 6. this will show more future SOI changes

Ok thanks and by any chance do you know anything about a calculator that shows you what angles they should be in for gravity assist?

[Arrowstar]

Take a look at the software I wrote and linked to in my signature. It includes codes that attempts to find flybys of planets for gravity assist maneuvers.

[Specialist290]

Highly recommending the above. I've found it quite useful for a great many things.

[astroadrian99]

Ok I'll try it out but is there like a tutorial cause by the pictures it looks kind of hard to do.

[Arrowstar]

Ok I'll try it out but is there like a tutorial cause by the pictures it looks kind of hard to do.

Not really, no. It's not too bad, just play with it for a bit and see how it works. Some learning will be involved.

[astroadrian99]

Not really, no. It's not too bad, just play with it for a bit and see how it works. Some learning will be involved.

Ok will do thanks. To be honest I had never heard about your app but I'm glad I just did because it's very cool.

Edited October 22, 2013 by astroadrian99