17:21 <discord-> g​lockatoo. — Can anyone provide some pointers on getting to the moon with principia?

17:26 <discord-> D​amien. — @glockatoo the moon's inclination changes between 18.5° and 28.5° and back again over an 18.5yr cycle so you'll rarely be able to directly insert into a coplanar orbit. Your choices are:

17:26 <discord-> D​amien. — A dogleg ascent into the correct inclination (expensive).

17:26 <discord-> D​amien. — Getting into a parking orbit and performing TLI at the an/dn so you intercept it without having to match planes.

17:26 <discord-> D​amien. — Direct ascent (takes a lot of trial and error and timing).

17:30 <discord-> F​alcon. — Yeah, im in 1957 and I can do a partial dog leg, when I launch from Brownsville I launch at about 105 degrees as a heading, once my first stage shuts down, i wait as long as i can until the apoapsis, and then start burning to correct for the dog leg, it doesnt get me a perfect plane change, but it beats being in a highly inclined orbit compared to the moon

17:43 <discord-> n​eph. — Does it though? The more you get familiar with approaching the moon from whatever inclination transfer the easier it it gets

17:44 <discord-> n​eph. — Also that easy easy polar science

17:44 <discord-> n​eph. — Mmhmm

17:45 <discord-> l​pg. — _from_ polar is easy, but getting _to_ polar can be prohibitive. non-polar but also non-coplanar is trickier

18:38 <discord-> e​gg. — @Damien are things running smoothly?

18:39 <discord-> e​gg. — @lpg @neph also does either of you want to test drive the upcoming release

18:39 <discord-> D​amien. — I only managed to play for an hour or so last night but yeah

18:39 <discord-> D​amien. — I just need to understand the orbit analyser more tbh

18:40 <discord-> e​gg. — conveniently it is documented

18:40 <discord-> e​gg. — also there is a book that you can read with a cat

18:40 <discord-> e​gg. — https://twitter.com/eggleroy/status/1123556005042970624

18:40 <kmath> <eggleroy> Michel Capderou (2012), Satellites : de Kepler au GPS. https://t.co/vAqW1Adq8Z

18:40 <discord-> D​amien. — Yeah but you're overestimating the intelligence of the average principia user

18:40 <discord-> l​pg. — I think I'll pass. I can only handle so many un-releases at once

18:41 <discord-> e​gg. — un-releases?

18:41 <discord-> l​pg. — not-yet-releases

18:41 <discord-> e​gg. — ah

18:41 <discord-> e​gg. — I mean, it's the actual release unless you find a thing that makes it unplayable with no workaround tbh

18:43 <discord-> D​amien. — @egg have you thought about havi my documentation for your documentation? Kind of like what simple.wikipedia is to wikipedia

18:43 <discord-> D​amien. — @egg have you thought about having documentation for your documentation? Kind of like what simple.wikipedia is to wikipedia (edited)

18:44 <discord-> D​amien. — Preferably written in crayon

18:52 <discord-> D​RVeyl. — @lpg But if you tell me that the RA preview works correctly, I can make it an actual release.

18:52 <discord-> D​RVeyl. — @lpg But if you tell me that the RA preview works correctly, I can make it an actual release, and then you can temporarily free up an un-release until I fill it again. (edited)

18:52 <discord-> l​pg. — :p haven't seen anything wrong with it, but also haven't done much with it

18:55 <discord-> n​eph. — I must respectfully decline until after Monday

18:56 <discord-> F​alcon. — go finish writing your papers and stuff, lol

20:11 <discord-> n​eph. — I got a whiteboard full of a half semester of structure notes now

20:11 <discord-> n​eph. — I tried for a coffee nap but the coffee hit too soon

20:12 <discord-> n​eph. — Only 28hrs since sleep so it's not that bad yet

20:18 <discord-> n​eph. — https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/648256031511805952/IMG_20191124_151712851.jpg

21:14 <discord-> F​alcon. — Since I talked about how I did a dog leg partially, this is what i meant

21:14 <discord-> F​alcon. — https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/648270242837168128/unknown.png

21:14 <discord-> F​alcon. — my upper stage has an extra 750-850 m/s with my lunar payload, so i can do a dogleg like this

21:35 <discord-> A​cer_Saccharum. — that's an awful lot of structural geology there @ neph

21:35 <discord-> A​cer_Saccharum. — that's an awful lot of structural geology there @ neph

21:35 <discord-> A​cer_Saccharum. — or at least it looks somewhat like that (edited)

22:10 <_whitenotifier-a3da> [Principia] pleroy opened pull request #2379: Get the inertia tensor of the body and push it to the plugin - https://git.io/JePtG

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23:28 <discord-> e​gg. — @neph I miss being a student

23:28 <discord-> n​eph. — I cannot wait to get out

23:28 <discord-> n​eph. — 6 more years ahead