Contract Not Working

[jrolson]

I put a satellite around minmus and the contract says I didn't?

Edited December 16, 2014 by jrolson

[EnDSchultz]

How's the inclination? It seems like it needs to be within half a degree or so.

[dbmorpher]

Is your satellite moving the same direction as the dot?

If not you could be 180 degrees off

[jrolson]

Is your satellite moving the same direction as the dot?

If not you could be 180 degrees off

Yup, it's going the right way.

[Arsonide]

You have a minimal deviation Tundra orbit here, and those can be very touchy, as with a periapsis that low, smaller angular deviations can have a bigger effect. Do you happen to have a save file for this so that I can take a look?

[jrolson]

You have a minimal deviation Tundra orbit here, and those can be very touchy, as with a periapsis that low, smaller angular deviations can have a bigger effect. Do you happen to have a save file for this so that I can take a look?

http://www./download/6rbaoq32gv0g4cd/saves.zip

[Arsonide]

Yeah, looked at it, you have a good match here, but at minimal deviation, you need to have that periapsis within 3% of the target. The target is 6000 because Minmus is tiny, which gives you a window of 180 meters! (I said they were touchy, right?) Your periapsis is close, but it's about 500 meters off. You'll need to do a microburn at your apoapsis to get this matched.

I'm thinking in the future, instead of matching periapsis, I might match a percent of the semi major axis or something. Periapsis gets really touchy with tundra and molniya orbits.

Edited December 16, 2014 by Arsonide