00:31 <queqiao-_> ⟨D​enwey⟩ Why exactly is a high latitude launch site bad?

00:34 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ It means you can't just launch into the plane of the moon

00:35 <raptop> They're fine for some orbits, but bad for others. The most notable case is that you have to do off-plane intercepts of the Moon

00:35 <queqiao-_> ⟨D​enwey⟩ Well it's not as if I hadn't done lots of inclination matching for my minmus mining station in stock 😛

00:36 <queqiao-_> ⟨D​enwey⟩ Unless?

00:36 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Only Kourou and Sriharikota allow launching into the plane of the moon at any time

00:36 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Stock has an equitorial launch site

00:37 <queqiao-_> ⟨D​enwey⟩ Oh I get it, *into* the orbit, during launch

00:37 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ The difference between equatorial and Minmus is less than the difference between most RSS launch sites and the moon

00:37 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Exactly; you have to time it right

00:37 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Butcher's scripts can do that for you

00:37 <queqiao-_> ⟨V​lood⟩ yeah, that's only... 1 or 2 orders of magnitude easier than the RSS equivalent?

00:55 <raptop> Minmus offplane intercepts of KSC can practically be eyeballed >_>

00:58 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Yes, and more easily than lunar fly-bys from Kourou can be eyeballed

00:58 <queqiao-_> ⟨A​l2Me6⟩ There is a way to do Minmus intercepts _other than_ eyeballing it?

01:07 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ I normally made a maneuver for that, except when the tracking station would not allow that

01:22 <queqiao-_> ⟨l​pg⟩ a minmus intercept is 3 clicks in MJ

01:23 <queqiao-_> ⟨V​lood⟩ jokes on you, i close my eyes when doing that

01:24 <raptop> Does MJ still stare into your soul with its robotic eye?

01:27 <queqiao-_> ⟨V​lood⟩ i am but a flesh automaton, driven by Mechjeb's will

01:28 <raptop> And then Vlood was a p-zombie

01:50 <queqiao-_> ⟨P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ At least the p-zombie passes the Turing test

01:54 <raptop> oof

03:23 <queqiao-_> ⟨Q​uadrupole⟩ That's actually quite similar to Pioneer 11's trajectory.

03:23 <queqiao-_> ⟨Q​uadrupole⟩ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/913993303341547600/Animation_of_Pioneer_11_trajectory.gif

04:28 <queqiao-_> ⟨l​pg⟩ it's basically the same thing with a year of offset

05:11 <queqiao-_> ⟨r​ocketman⟩ incredible

05:54 <queqiao-_> ⟨🌈​Exilate⟩ boing

12:00 <queqiao-_> ⟨t​heeo⟩ when the trajectory around the gas giant tells you to take the L 😩

12:21 <queqiao-_> ⟨!​Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ hmmm

18:24 <queqiao-_> ⟨l​pg⟩ A problem I've run into several times lately: short, large-dv burns in the binormal direction (zeroing out inclination at a high Ap), MJ's "point at node" can't quite keep up as the maneuver vector rotates, so I end up with a somewhat large error on the burn. The obvious solution is to use Inertially Fixed so the vector won't rotate, but then coming up with an "equivalent" maneuver (with the right amo

23:47 <queqiao-_> ⟨K​obymaru⟩ Slideshow time

23:47 <queqiao-_> ⟨K​obymaru⟩ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/914301521771003914/screenshot595.png