Walk the SOI

[Ydoow]

Here\'s the challenge:

La Grange points don\'t work, so there\'s a hard line between the SOI\'s of all the bodies.

You\'re mission is the 'walk' the SOI boundary as long as you can.

Obviously you can\'t be inbetween, just hover along the edge, or constantly flip between SOI\'s as much as you can.

No restrictions whatsoever on this one. CFG edits are okay, but of course you get much more praise and respect if you go without.

My suggestion is to use high thrust RCS units since you\'ll be flipping between SOI\'s and won\'t have time to flip your rocket around so rapidly.

Any SOI is acceptable.

I\'d have to imagine the Mun/Kerbin SOI boundary would be more forgiving, or opportune to fixing 'uh-oh's though.

Images would be greatly appreciated, video would be awesome.

Each recorded flip gets you 1 Jebediah

Score board:

4 points for R4m0n!

[witeken]

This looks a really hard challenge. Did you try it by youself first? I don\'t have enough time for it now but I\'ll give it a try. However, I\'m not sure if this is possible. I don\'t think in Kerbin-Kerbol SoI but maybe in Kerbin-Mun SoI.

[r4m0n]

This looks a really hard challenge. Did you try it by youself first? I don\'t have enough time for it now but I\'ll give it a try. However, I\'m not sure if this is possible. I don\'t think in Kerbin-Kerbol SoI but maybe in Kerbin-Mun SoI.

I think the best way to do this would be to get in a very high Munar orbit and dip into Kerbin SoI. Other option is just to get to the SoI frontier, zero your speed and go back and forward between the SoIs... You would be left behind by the Mun pretty fast, though.

[Ydoow]

I have not tried it yet.

I just thought of it now (I\'m at my university) and hardly have time to play KSP nowawdays D:

I still like to keep up with the games progress and community though

[Ydoow]

I think the best way to do this would be to get in a very high Munar orbit and dip into Kerbin SoI. Other option is just to get to the SoI frontier, zero your speed and go back and forward between the SoIs... You would be left behind by the Mun pretty fast, though.

Yeah, my thought was getting left behind by the body you\'re trying to switch SOI\'s with.

So perhaps the best approach would be to put yourself at an equal orbit with the Mun, and just be ahead of it.

This way your orbital periods are very similar, and if it starts catching up to you, all you have to do is speed up

[Cepheus]

I\'ve done this once before. No pictures, though.

On a recent visit to the moon with the Gemini capsule (along with the new Saturn V) I found that I was a little low on fuel - enough to transfer to earth orbit, but not enough to land. So, my thoughts going the way they do, I tried to use the moon to slingshot into a Very High Kerbin Orbit (which I will refer to as VHKO). There\'s a funny little thing that happens with high apoapsides - the higher they are, the less ? - v they take to make the same change in the altitude of the periapsis. While in Munar orbit, I burned to about 4.5 million meters. About 2 million meters out, I left the Mun\'s SOI, and was in a VHKO; right on the border between orbiting Kerbol and Kerbin (both the map view and the camera were spazzing out) It may be a bug, but that\'s a lagrangian point right there. Even with a tiny burn (.1 m/s of ? - v) it stopped. I don\'t remember what the Apoapside was but with only 30 m/s of ? - v, my periapsis had gone from 1.2 million meters to 0.

So while there may be no active langrangian points in the game, there are still bugs like this, which can be exploited.

[r4m0n]

So perhaps the best approach would be to put yourself at an equal orbit with the Mun, and just be ahead of it.

This way your orbital periods are very similar, and if it starts catching up to you, all you have to do is speed up

Yeah, I\'m playing among the SoIs right now and found out that strategy to be the best...

Here is my current attempt so far:

I still have a lot of fuel and 2 full RCS tanks... Not sure I want to continue this, it gets boring fast ???

[samstarman5]

Funny, I just watched Kurtjmac\'s* last KSP episode and he did just this, unintentionally.

http://youtu.be/V-8qVJRUlz8

First transfer is at 30 seconds. Bear in mind the guy has already been doing this mission for about an hour so he is going to sound loopier than normal(which is pretty loopy).

*:Far Lands or Bust!