Remote Tech 2

[Itoum]

Here are some question I have about this mods

1- If i want to place 3 satellites in a geosynchrounous that can reach each planet/moon do I need to put one Dish for every planet/moon or is it better to place 3 on kerbin then 3 on the mun then 3 on minmus, 3 on duna u get the point ??

2- If i want to place a GPS constellation (24 Satellites) do they all need to have a dish or there is another way to do it ??

cause if all of them have a dish its going to do alot of yellow lines on the map screen

for now those are the questions coming to my mind !! thx in advance

[Dangerous_Beans]

for 1 - you will need at least one dish per planet/moon. on the Kerbin side of the link you can point the dish at the planet and it will connect with all things around that SOI that are pointing back at it. so a simple Duna relay would be 3 satellites in geosynchrounous orbit, each with a dish pointed at Duna, and 3 in orbit of Duna with a dish pointing back at Kerbin.

you do need to worry about the angles of the dish, as the dish is pointing at the centre of the body, so may not cover the outer reaches of the SOI: the target's SOI occupies x degrees of the sky from the satellite, and the dish has a cone of y degrees, then if x>y you wont be able to connect via that dish from the outer reaches of the target's SOI. dish range and angle have an inverse relationship, so just use the shortest range dish you can.

2 - you might be able to use omni antennas. what will the maximum distance between the satellites be? it's pretty simple to work out if you know the altitude. just include some margin for error, as it's pretty hard to get the aligned exactly (unless you are a better pilot than me).

Edit: i think there is a remote tech wiki around that has a bunch of this info in it, having a look at that may help you.

Edited June 5, 2014 by Dangerous_Beans

[Itoum]

loll yeah i know its hard to place 4 on each orbit but ive manage to do it without remote tech

see https://imgur.com/a/B1fcv#0

ive done it with this method

and if u look my gps satellite only have the communotron 32 omni antenna and the little back one dont remember the name i do have a relay setup but i cant get control of my gps satellite !!

[Pecan]

If your comsats are in geosynchronous, and therefore equitorial, orbits you will find them blocked by other planets from time to time, as they are (almost) all orbiting the sun in the same plane. That is why many people have their 'local' cloud in equitorial orbits and their interplanetary ones in high, eccentric polar orbits.

There is a LOT more information about the mod in its thread in the add-ons forum and its various info sites.