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⟨sichelgaita⟩ The dashed lines in the flight plan have nothing to do with speed, they are just a drawing technique. But I am curious to understand why knowing the speed at every point of the trajectory is useful (remember, that depend on the reference frame). The 🌈 trajectories are not happening, but I am curious to understand if there would be a useful feature here.
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⟨Al₂Me₆⟩ It should correlate with curvature, no?
<queqiao->
⟨egg⟩ Yeah, but with apparent curvature as seen by the camera.
<queqiao->
⟨sichelgaita⟩ * depends
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⟨egg⟩ Windows-only test build with flight plan optimization; this tries to optimize a flyby of the body which is fixed in the current plotting frame, with a target altitude and optionally a target inclination, minimizing Δv.
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This is local optimization, so in same cases it will only work if you are reasonably close to a "good" manœuvre.
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And in some cases it will just not work at (not optimize anything) because you might just be unlucky.