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    Question Need help making an efficient TMI burn with a low impulse craft

    So I've been experimenting with a Frankensteinian monster of a stack that in theory has enough deltaV budget to make an Earth ejection burn towards Mars that I've plotted out in TransX. Now the problem is that the stack only has an initial acceleration of 1m/s, and so to make the 3500ish m/s...
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    Bug XR series hover autopilot causes vessel to immediately reach escape velocity

    I'm not sure if this is a known issue, but I've managed to reproduce this on both the XR2 and XR5 on a clean install. It first cropped up while I was talking with a friend and half fooling around with an XR5 on the runway while I tried to not really listen to him. The steps to reproduce it are...
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    Search The Perfect Capsule and its Parent

    I've spent quite alot of time in orbiter happily playing around in my XR series of craft, and before I discovered the joys of D3D9, the DGIV; thoroughly enjoying the myriad of switches and subsystems that keep me busy on my usual trips to the moon and beyond. I've been looking at doing...
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    Flight Question Landings on bodies with negligible atmospheres

    Hi there. I'm trying to find a general set of guidelines for making a deorbit burn and eventualy a powered landing on bodies such as the moon or Mars. I've been scouring through the search function trying to find posts addressing this, and while there are a great amount of really good tutorials...
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    Flight Question Aero-braking at Jupiter

    Hello folks. First off forgive me if I'm asking the impossible, while I've been a long time lurker on these forums and have toyed with Orbiter on and off for the last year, I still see myself as much the novice and many things still go right over my head. Still I'm able to get to the moon and...
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