Recent content by FoglyOgly

Well crap... that was a lot easier than I made it. My only thought was a burn with RCS that sent you toward the moon (which is close) and do a free return home... it's much easier to just slow down. Sorry.

Hello all, first time posting a challenge, so here goes nothing... You are in a DeltaGliderIV currently on its way to Mars. You launched yesterday, December 22, 2013, and were just getting ready to relax until your first MCC when an explosion ruptured your main fuel tank and left your main...

Is this where Orbiter gets its data?

Hey everyone, I've been writing a program in Python to try to take some of the guesswork out of planning certain types of missions. There's a neat Python module I've been using for this (PyKEP) but looking at it now I think the positions it gives for some planets doesn't quite match up with...

Thanks for that link. I figured it had been thought of before. From that Wikipedia page I was able to find a pretty detailed paper on cyclers that I hope to utilize for my next attempt. Here's the paper for anyone else who wants to take a crack at it...

Hey all, long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I've been playing around in Orbiter for several months now and I've started using it as a testbed for some mission ideas for my own amusement. I'm finally starting to get away from the standard Hohmann transfers (as much as I like them) and in...