UmbralRaptop changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is 🐇. We currently target 1.5.1, 1.6.1, and 1.7.x. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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egg. — Has anyone here used the orbit analysis tool?
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egg. — (and lived to tell the tale)
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egg. — I haven't heard any feedback about it
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<UmbralRaptop>
Tell the tail
<UmbralRaptop>
(are orbits cats?)
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Damien. — cats like balls of yarn, principia orbits are the yarn after the cat's had it
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Kenira. — technically i've used it a couple times
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Kenira. — but i haven't actually been in a situation where i got use out of it?
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Kenira. — one of those times i wondered if it could help me figure out if the orbit of my LLO was stable enough for a while without crashing into the moon, but the answer to that is either no or i just couldn't figure out how to interpret what i was shown in a way that was useful for me
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egg. — it should be useful for that
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egg. — you can see what the eccentricity range is
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egg. — if the eccentricity increases too much, you're going to have a bad day
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Kenira. — makes sense. still requires me to actually calculate then what kind of eccentricities are okay and where i need to start worrying. next time i play i'll keep an eye on that
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Kenira. — and since i deleted antenna mods i currently have no comsat constellations, otherwise that would have been a use case where even without having used it i know the orbital period would have been extremely helpful to sync them up well
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Damien. — @egg is all that new body reference frame loveliness in the next release?
<egg>
there's no new reference frame
<egg>
it's just that now we draw the trajectory of the celestials
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egg. — also apparently my images got garbled by discord?
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Kenira. — the images worked if you open them in a browser
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egg. — hm, deleting one made the other one work
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egg. — that's weird
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Kenira. — but yeah the preview was borked
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Damien. — @egg how difficult would it be to have some kind of warning of an unloaded craft moving to an impact trajectory within x orbits or time? Or the same but for eccentricity greater than x. I'm thinking of something to help managing stationkeeping for satellites
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Damien. — @egg how difficult would it be to have some kind of warning of an unloaded craft moving to an impact trajectory within x orbits or time? Or the same but for eccentricity greater than/less than x. I'm thinking of something to help managing stationkeeping for satellites (edited)
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[Principia] pleroy opened pull request #2371: Reimplement the Arnold solver using quaternions - https://git.io/Jewg5