egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <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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TheRealDirtyDan. — How do i remove the level orbit lines, they don't show up in the tracking center.
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Zeusbeer. — I figured a way to make it solve to end up at the target location at perigee
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Zeusbeer. — this means it doesn't have to do any drifting
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Zeusbeer. — this means it doesn't have to do any drifting, and it's really exact (edited)
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Stonesmile. — It is a bit wasteful to do an exterior phasing, no?
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Zeusbeer. — Yes, but this is more interesting than the other solution
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Stonesmile. — I guess staying in LEO for some orbits might help to minimize the distance beyond GEO you need to go
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leudaimon. — this higher orbit is because you are launching from a high latitude location that makes it cheaper to reduce the inclination from high up, right?
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Zeusbeer. — Yes but I'm not optimizing for minimal deltaV cost
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Zeusbeer. — because I don't know how to optimize
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leudaimon. — oh, right
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Zeusbeer. — so it's just a bit arbitrary
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Zeusbeer. — but its so cool that it finds a solution where it ends up at the perfect set longitude
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Zeusbeer. — But it seems quite efficient
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Zeusbeer. — total delta V is about 4.5km/s, so thats not bad at all, especially from a 45 degree orbit
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Stonesmile. — How does it compare to an 'optimal' geo plan?
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Zeusbeer. — I have no idea how much that would cost
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leudaimon. — should be easy to calculate the cost with a simple hohmann transfer + inclination change at apogee. The supersynchronous orbit with plane change at the higher apogee is harder to calculate, but I'm sure there is some fixed solution
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Zeusbeer. — You would have to find what the ideal apoapsis is for the inclination change efficiency while also optimizing the amount of deltaV for the circularization burn at the end
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Zeusbeer. — for getting into GEO from polar orbit it finds a solution that takes about 5.5 km/s of deltaV
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Zeusbeer. — but how do you find the total deltaV if you have a maneuver that has both say tangent and normal
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egg. — In Principia ? or are we talking about GMAT
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Zeusbeer. — The solution it finds is insane
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Zeusbeer. — So it doesn't use the really far away point to change inclination, becaust it can't
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egg. — well most of the inclination change is still done by that big hairpin
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Zeusbeer. — that is correct
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leudaimon. — Why it can't change inclination there? Looks like it is at the equator at apogee, no?
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Damien. — yeah that's what I was wondering, so it's exactly like the low energy outer transfer to the moon, only instead of performing a 2nd, capture burn at the moon you do it at earth
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Damien. — that's cool
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Zeusbeer. — It's really cool, I don't know if it's optimal though
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Zeusbeer. — because I think you can also use a lunar flyby to change inclination really efficiently
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Cristi. — Nice, closer to the Mars transfer
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leudaimon. — is the upper right graph the optimization result?
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Al2Me6. — I think that's distance form Earth over time?
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Zeusbeer. — yeah
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Cristi. — If you start from a circular Leo orbit, let's say 160 km, and try to do a fly-by of the moon with optimal delta-V what solution it finds?
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Damien. — rename #principia to #astrodynamics
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Damien. — we've gone beyond gaming
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leudaimon. — when was Principia gaming 🤓
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vevladdd. — Principia is a separate game
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Cristi. — After spending countless hours to plan multi flybys mission I cannot agree more with leudaimon
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Al2Me6. — I think that's distance from Earth over time? (edited)
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Zeusbeer. — yeah not yet
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Zeusbeer. — Here I wrote a script that finds the minimal amount of deltaV to get from polar orbit into GEO
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Zeusbeer. — hmm it might be inaccurute, since its using a lunar flyby somehow
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Zeusbeer. — hmm it might be inaccurute, since its using a lunar flyby somehow 😂 (edited)
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leudaimon. — It could be the cheapest way to reduce the inclination
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[Principia] eggrobin labeled pull request #2983: If a vessel only contains unfaithful parts, make it unmanageable - https://git.io/JsItj
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lpg. — lunar flyby sounds kind of high, but going supersynchronous for the plane change is definitely optimal, and polar is a pretty extreme case
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[Principia] pleroy closed issue #2922: [Info] FARc 0_16_0_1_Mader can lead to a Principia Fatal error in KSP 1.11.1 - https://git.io/Jq7Hv
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[Principia] pleroy closed pull request #2983: If a vessel only contains unfaithful parts, make it unmanageable - https://git.io/JsItj
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 5 commits to master [+0/-0/±10] https://git.io/JsmIS
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Damien. — the pause button is your friend if notifications are cancelling warp
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egg. — how does that work?
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egg. — I would like to not cancel warp, yes :-p
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Damien. — that's the hotkey to turn off notifications
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egg. — oh
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egg. — Messages muted, nice
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egg. — Warping a decade with vessels does take a while with Principia (though I suppose if you are actually playing a career you don’t warp that much very often)
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egg. — @Damien I did add a « pause the remote sensing analysis » setting though, because otherwise the computation of the swaths does get silly as you have noticed :-p
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Damien. — yeah I can't believe I endured that warp to L1 with it running
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Damien. — it was painful
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egg. — also hey, may GEO sat nudged itself to a stable point
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egg. — warping for a long time is entertaining
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Damien. — turn on procedural asteroids and watch them spawn and be flung about by earth
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Damien. — it's fun
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egg. — hm, no, it’s not a stable point, it is at 3°
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egg. — but it does not seem to be moving that much
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egg. — it’s going to stay within 3° of there for 100 days, and then within 200 days it moves 15°, within 300 days 40°, 400 days 80°, and at that point it is just having a stroll around the equator
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Zeusbeer. — 3 degrees is close to the -15 degree tip, that would explain why it's moving very little
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Zeusbeer. — at 30 degrees the movement will be maximal
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Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they). — So, timewarp almost found a geostationary orbit which had an unstable longitude but soon reached a stable longitude and maintained geostationary status?
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Stonesmile. — That seems like an even better test case 😆
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egg. — except I am an idiot, the second part of 2400 is not addressed so with the vessels from 1950 still there it is unusable and takes ages to switch scenes 🙃
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egg. — I should have used a vesselless save