Circumnavigation speed

[sikatdakota]

How fast can you get around kerbin? Tell me your time with your spaceplane!

No Mods. No Cheats. No Hyperedit. No Hacks.

[The Destroyer]

Please read this and re-write your challenge

[Hellothere!]

Well you can't really do a challenge on this because the time needed to circumnavigate in space is only influenced by your altitude. So without using Bugs to circumnavigate inside atmosphere the fastest you can get is in a circular orbit right at the edge of atmosphere at about 69 km height. But that's the same for all spaceplanes, rockets and derbris. It doesn't take any skill.

[Red Iron Crown]

Well you can't really do a challenge on this because the time needed to circumnavigate in space is only influenced by your altitude. So without using Bugs to circumnavigate inside atmosphere the fastest you can get is in a circular orbit right at the edge of atmosphere at about 69 km height. But that's the same for all spaceplanes, rockets and derbris. It doesn't take any skill.

If you are thrusting somewhere towards Kerbin, you can increase your orbital speed without changing altitude. It's definitely possible to circumnavigate faster than a 69km circular orbit.

[Kasuha]

How fast can you get around kerbin? Tell me your time with your spaceplane!

No Mods. No Cheats. No Hyperedit. No Hacks.

Tell me what is a spaceplane. Starts from runway? Starts horizontally? Has wings? Uses jet engines? Only or all the time? Stages or no stages?

[cantab]

Bit of a thread bump here.

Anyway, the OP near-duplicated a challenge two days prior which had more detail, http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/77662-No-Rules-Circumnavigation-Race. And that challenge has a link to an older more restrictive circumnavigation challenge.

Edited May 21, 2014 by cantab