Orbital Velocity Table

[LethalDose]

I got tired of going to the wiki when I wanted to ball park orbital velocities around various planets for planning missions, so I whipped up a quick little tool to estimate orbital velocities at various low altitudes around each of the orbital bodies in KSP (except the Sun).

The orbital speeds for circular 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 500 km orbits are given, where relevant (redacted if the orbit is inside an atmosphere or outside an SoI). These are benchmarks for obits I've found I frequently use. I just wanted a tool to help me ball-park target velocities and dV costs when making orbit after landing, or slowing down during captures.

The file's here. I'm considering adding a surface velocity column, but want to keep it brief.

Anyway, let me know what you think, and how it can be more useful. Please just don't re-post without original credit.

EDIT

Updated the sheet to be locked (for convenience) and added column for custom orbits. I plan on updating this to alert the user if the orbit will be below the atmosphere of the body and add a sheet for an orbital resonance calculator.

Edited July 13, 2014 by LethalDose

[Pecan]

Guess what I was looking for yesterday?

Have some rep.

[Bean]

I have a spreadsheet with calculations so you just plug in your Apo and Peri, or make the Peri = Apo for circular, I could add velocities too, I use it to get my comsats perfectly alligned for minimal drift.

Make a copy and put your desired orbit in to the Apo field in meters to get Min, Max and Average Orbital velocities as well as orbit time.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F5VBOHIjby8NHIkNsXyttFC0X1cSxcnt3l4IHmfHT08/edit?usp=sharing

[LethalDose]

Update the sheet, see OP.

Also shameless/ful self-promotion

[Dispatcher]

Thanks for this. Good information!

[AlexinTokyo]

Thanks for doing this. Very useful.

If I me be so bold as to suggest an addition, a column for the synchronous orbits of each body (where they're valid) would be cool.