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Launching into the Ecliptic
glilienthal edited this page Oct 4, 2014
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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
}