Recent content by Planitia

Aha. I did do one run with more careful micro tweaking of dV and ManDate and got the Cl App to 8.3km. If I had kept fussing it would have worked. Thanks! Now that I know how close I need to get - under half a diameter, I should be able to complete my challenge. This was much easier with...

I have taken this scenario all the way to Phobos orbit, but without the benefit of the precise encounter guidance I end up missing Phobos by about 230 km. But at no point along the way does the TransX Encounter window show anything but that big circle. So I do not think it has anything to do...

The video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0nMa1jz0RY My craft (DGIV-3) is in orbit around Mars, just after the P906S90 launch procedure has terminated, starting from Olympus Base. I have attached a screenshot of what I see, as well as a grab from the video at a corresponding time. I have...

In David Courtney's very helpful video on using TransX to do an Earth-Moon transfer (Part 31, at 23:19), the right-hand Encounter display has a small cross at the center. I am trying to recreate this, but on a Mars-Phobos transfer. For me, the Encounter display does not have that little cross...