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Guess where I'm going from my burn


nhnifong

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I want to start a little KSP-related game.

Guess where I am going from the appearance of my departure burn.

This is a really unusual looking burn, so you will have to think outside the box.

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Assume I'm not dumb enough to make a drastic plane change at that altitude.

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That's quite an inclination there. At first I thought you were going to capture an asteroid but I'm not sure if you have a claw on the end of your ship. If you're going to another planet it must be further from the Sun than Kerbin judging the direction. Maybe you are going to Dres or Eeloo?

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Yes! It's Dres

The ship was manufactured on Minimus and departed with a 150 m/s burn from into a highly inclined and eccentric orbit around Kerbin. A 1250 m/s burn at periapsis put it on a hohmann transfer orbit to Dres, already in the correct plane!

I thought it was a startling picture because you never see a departure burn with such inclination, (well ok now you do because of asteroids) and I thought that the position of the two inner planets was also unusual because Eve appears more inclined than Moho, but that's because it's actually simultaneously at it's closest approach to Kerbin, and at it's highest point above the Solar system's plane.

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I find many prefer to wait until they are in the Sun's SOI before making adjustments for the more extreme worlds like Dres or Moho. So taking that further step while within Kerbin's SOI is rather unique and bold. I would definitely have to think you had a very ideal window.

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