Direction of Orbit important on contracts?

[Armarnis]

Hi there, i have to place a new nice and shiny satellite into an equatorial orbit around kerbin.

apoapsis 7,079,811m

periapsis 6,436,795m

inclination 180 degrees

longitude of ascending node: undefined

argument of periapsis: undefined

so i went there, i managed to get my crafts apoapsis to 7,065,415m and my periapsis to 6,424,596m but the indicator to "reach the designated equatorial orbit around kerbin within marginal deviation" did not become complete... after a while i realized in mapscreen the target orbit was rotating against kerbins rotation, so i wonder did i fail because my satellite wasnt on the right turn or was it still not within "marginal deviation"? is there any roundabout percentage of deviation that is allowed?

Edited January 17, 2015 by Armarnis

[Merandix]

Nope, has to be the right way. The contracts are actually pretty lenient, but going the wrong way is well, not a small deviation . It happened to me once, I had enough delta-v to turn the craft around, but that was because it was a 'cheaty' reusable satelite designed to do several missions in one go.

[PlonioFludrasco]

Yes direction is very important, orbiting the wrong way means you have a reative inclination of 180° (you can verify that ascending node and descending nodes marks reads + or - 180°). About marginal deviations, those are not very restrictive, I can assure you that the only thing wrong is the inclination.

[Armarnis]

ahh god damn, thanks a lot mate, how very frustrating

another noobish questions, does this mean that inclination describes how a object rotates? 0 degrees like a "right" turn, 180 left around, so 90 would be "above, but right way" and 270 "below, left way"?

Edited January 17, 2015 by Armarnis

[GoSlash27]

The inclination would be the direction the satellite is headed when it crosses the equator from south to north.

In the case of equatorial orbits (0 or 180*), it is simply the direction the satellite is headed (0 being due east and 180 being due west).

Best,

-Slashy