Flight Question Qs about deepstar ！

[769270865]

Hi
I got a XR2 to deepstar and decided go to mars，the ejection burn going very slow。Than i got a point about ECC 0.54 and 2.8K delt V to go.The Ecc start going down,and delt V start going up! does that meaning that I need come around and use 2 times to finish ejection burn？If I use 2 times but second time I still didn’t finished and ECC are above 1，can I still burning to finished it somehow？

 

[statickid]

Deep star is tricky to use in this sense.

I've only done a few missions with it. Try going from the Earth to the moon to get a smaller, easier to grasp idea of what is happening due to long engine burn with high mass:thrust ratio.

Using TransX i made it to the moon, but i had to basically ignore the attitude pointing view. My flight was very inefficient but you can turn off maneover mode and watch your predicted trajectory in real time.

there is probably a better way, but to accomplish the flight i made an orbit that was a close as possible to the correct course and then "rotated" the orbit with (-)outward velocity. I monitored the course correction with the Forward-one-step-maneovre-off-target-moon view.

 

[Izack]

With Deepstar's low acceleration, starting from a higher orbit, or smaller planetary body (like the Moon) is advantageous. Otherwise, the burn should be done in two or more stages. If your orbit is very low, you may even need to 'spiral' out of LEO by burning prograde for whole orbits.

 

[statickid]

that would have no doubt solved my problem getting to the moon, i was probably in a tiny 300km orbit, IIRC. So you could say that with Deepstar, which is a long distance, deep space vehicle, tending a wee bit more towards realism, you would plan that things can take longer or may not be as direct as the types of transfers you do with the beastly Arrow Freighter.