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mofh: yeah
<egg|laptop|egg_>
whitequark: it seems people are working on experiments that run over time in KSP
<whitequark>
oh?
<egg|laptop|egg_>
whitequark: I'm trying to nudge them towards supporting constraints that would make sun-synch orbits useful
<egg|laptop|egg_>
it's a bit messy because a lot of people there only know how to write MM configs and are terrified of writing C#, so they don't necessarily see what things are an easy addition to the mod (kerbalism is the mod in question) and what is hard
<egg|laptop|egg_>
basically if you can have an experiment that only runs if the sun is high, especially if you only care about a range of latitudes, you get something that strongly encourages sun-synch
<whitequark>
oooh
<egg|laptop|egg_>
whitequark: right now they don't have the ability to specify that kind of constraint though
<egg|laptop|egg_>
whitequark: they do have the ability to say "the satellite is in the sun"
<egg|laptop|egg_>
whitequark: and that's also a thing that can encourage sun-synch
<egg|laptop|egg_>
specifically crepuscular sun-synch, instead of 22:30 AN earth-observing (north) sun-synch
<egg|laptop|egg_>
e.g. radar sats or other power-hungry things want to be in the sun all the time
<egg|laptop|egg_>
or things that want to have a stable temperature
<egg|laptop|egg_>
or things that want to observe the sun
<whitequark>
right
<whitequark>
or things that want to get in the sun
<whitequark>
wait no
<SingularRaptor>
uh
SingularRaptor is now known as UmbralRaptor
<UmbralRaptor>
Of course, STEREO A & B, as well as Parker are in different orbits…
<egg|laptop|egg_>
<whitequark> or things that want to get in the sun << is this lewd
<egg|laptop|egg_>
UmbralRaptor: STEREO A and B are heliocentric, and TRACE and Picard crepuscular
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[Principia] pleroy opened pull request #2149: Checkpointing done right - https://git.io/fjZu4