Flight Question Time warping to Mars

[ssope]

It is my understanding that a one way trip to Mars is in the vicinity of 9 months. When you guys take trips to Mars, do you just have orbiter sit at a 1000x timewarp? How long does that usually take?

 

[Rtyh-12]

You can accelerate time up to 100,000x, that makes interplanetary travel quite fast.

 

[ssope]

You can accelerate time up to 100,000x, that makes interplanetary travel quite fast.

How? The time warp window only has 1000x. Are you talking about changing the text in the text field?

I had heard that the fast the time warp the less accurate the physics calculations become, is 100,000x going to cause my scenario to become unstable?

 

[garyw]

How? The time warp window only has 1000x. Are you talking about changing the text in the text field?

I had heard that the fast the time warp the less accurate the physics calculations become, is 100,000x going to cause my scenario to become unstable?

No, it has 100,000. You have an addon thats blocking the increase in the levels of timewarp or you have something active in an addon which is blocking the time acceleration.

Accelleration won't cause any major problems with calculating positions. I do mid course corrections at 25%, 50%, 75%, 85%, 90% and 95% of the mission duration. There is always some error in the initial burn to another planet.

 

[Nemoricus]

How? The time warp window only has 1000x. Are you talking about changing the text in the text field?

While it's true that the time warp window only allows you to go up to 1000x time acceleration, pressing the 'T' button will allow you to reach up to 100000x.

I've personally not noticed any problems with that level of acceleration, and in any case I make correction burns about as frequently as garyw does.

 

[Tommy]

There's no noticeable loss of accuracy unless you are too close to a gravity source. Don't skip up to 100,000x right after the TMI burn, bring it up slowly, say one click of the "t" key every five or ten seconds, and have OrbitMFD set to Mars reference and start slowing down the Time accel when the G > .2

I use IMFD and make my MCC about halfway to Mars, and only need a second MCC when I get closer if I'll be planning to aerobrake - since that requires a very precise PeA at Mars.

 

[ssope]

Thank you, one quick completely off topic question (I made a different thread for it but no one responded and do not want to make a duplicate thread):

My jet pack does not work ever since I installed vista boost, if I deactivate it in the orbiter start screen, jet packs still do not work. I looked at the jet pack configuration file and next to MAX THRUST i saw a bunch of zeros. Does that sound correct?

 

[innovine]

You can change the date of the simuation in the scenario editor. It's faster to advance time by a few months than waiting at maximum time warp