The Little used Polar Orbit

[baked_by_oven]

I used it plenty, one is a practically perfect polar orbit which I'm rather proud of! Mainly for the ISA mapper plugin though.

[G Addict]

I put some of my munolith hunter satellites into polar orbit around, oddly enough, the Mun. Kerbin I generally don't bother unless I intend to land something on one of the poles.

[rasheed]

Guys, did u realized u necroed a few mouths old topic.i have seen alot of necroers these days. Mod.plz lock this thread

[Richy teh space man]

Polar orbits were one of the first I set up, first for monolith detecting then for ISA mapping

Its also more flexible for landers when choosing a landing site as it covers more of the planet, even though it takes a bit more work to get into polar orbit

[quarthinos]

When testing my most recent rocket stack, I've been landing on Minimus' pole to check if I have the dV to get back to Kerbal afterwards. Obviously, if you take off from the pole into orbit, you're gonna end up in a polar orbit. I hope that my current lander will be able to go extra-Kerbal, and I'm simulating the extra dV by landing on the Minimus pole, then taking off, changing azimuth back close to 0, then going back to Kerbal. (I haven't been able to softland at KSC yet because I keep going prograde to get to KSC and then aerodrag stops me from getting the rockets pointed back at the ground )

[rkman]

Polar orbit is very useful for mapping.

[iCharles]

I used one to land a polar base on the Arktic

[royalkingofgames]

use isa satmap then a polar orbit allows you to map whole planets if your in a polar orbit

[Boex]

I once had the idea of having a Polar orbit over KSC2, at geosynchronous altitude (~2 848 000m).

Obviously, KSC2 is not on the equator, so you're thinking that it's impossible to have an orbit pass over it every rotation, right?

But if you time your orbit such that you pass over KSC2 every time Kerbin rotates (6h), then this can be acheived!

So, by performing the 'Little used Polar orbit' at Geosynchronous altitude, you can have a probe or 'satellite' pass over a spot away from the equator every revolution!

In theory, this should work nicely, but in practice it's reasonably difficult. A challenge.

No pictures of my mission, I'm afraid, but try it!

Finally, a use for the Polar Orbit!