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Launching into the Ecliptic

glilienthal edited this page Oct 4, 2014 · 5 revisions

I (Lilienthal) did not find a direct way to launch into the ecliptic, even with Mechjeb, so what I did is to set a marker satellite into the Earth's orbit and use that as a reference.

To put the satellite in perfect alignment with the ecliptic, I use the orbital elements found in the RSS config:

		inclination         = 23.44603795469773
		LAN                 = 359.9965004168758

So, to put a satellite in orbit around Earth exactly into the plane of the eclipitc change the orbit structure to the following in your persistent.sfs save file:

ORBIT
		{
			SMA = 6571000.23884298
			ECC = 0
			INC = 23.4460377798407
			LPE = 217.42608688242
			LAN = 359.996501461213
			MNA = 1.40520636621342
			EPH = 79634905.4861304
			REF = 1
		}