God darn Jool!

[Comwarrior]

So, last night heading out to jool with my Mk2 Atlantis (stargate atlantis) and something was glitchy when it calculated my approach and instead of coming in with the right distance from jool to go straight to layth it was on a terminal trajectory with the center of jool and it was cooking with gas... +10Km/s (high energy transfer)

So, emergency burn as I shoot past lathes orbit and i run out of fuel. Fuel generators on but not producing fuel fast enough. So, i make the decision to eject and use the rescue and return pod to save my kerbals.

I burn and burn in the RR and after slamming into Jools atmo causing a dramatic aerobraking i'm left in the pod on a bad orbit thats intent on slamming me into Jool sooner or later. Again i burn to circularise my orbit so that i can send a rescue for the rescue return pod (which failed to do it's job in this case) and i run out of fuel. Fearing an issue with encountering another planet i start using the RCS to sort my orbit out... when this happens...

c'mon KSP give me a break!

Last night was just not my night for KSP!

I Think KSP wanted to eat a kerbal since i havn't killed one in a long time...

How does the story end? I'll tell you later once i've figured out how to save them...

Edited March 4, 2014 by KasperVld
removed profanity

[Kasuha]

Looks good to me. The SOI change code is not perfect and when you enter planet SOI at sufficiently low speed you may get captured by it (i.e. not exit after single pass). That wiggly line just shows how you're going to orbig Tylo from Jool perspective. Except the last part I guess, there may be some errors in trajectory extrapolation involved.

[Comwarrior]

Two glitches in the space of 15 mins... I'm pretty sure Jool was hungry for green blooded kerbals after i dropped one into Jools atmo just to see what would happen when the pod got to the center...

[Taki117]

Might I suggest switching to Conic Mode 0 to even out your orbits? Maybe then you will get an idea of what is really going on.

[Comwarrior]

how do i do that?

[CalculusWarrior]

Go to the settings.cfg file (open it in Notepad), scroll until you see:

CONIC_PATCH_DRAW_MODE = 3

Then change it to be

CONIC_PATCH_DRAW_MODE = 0

You can additionally use a mod like PreciceNode to change the conics mode in-flight.

Also, to get captured into Tylo orbit, you're probably going to need an extra bit of delta-v.

Yes it would! Just EVA a kerbal, then position them behind the capsule/ship when you reach Tylo periapsis, and use them as an engine to get captured. (Note that the larger the ship, the less effective this strategy becomes)

[Comwarrior]

ok, i'll have a look at that in my CFG...

I wasn't trying to get captured... i was circularizing my orbit to put me clear of all the other planets so that i could mount a rescue mission... I thaught i was clear of everything... [insert adult language]