Timeline for How do I space out satellites evenly in an orbit?
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| May 20, 2020 at 17:53 | vote | accept | Pvt. Grichmann | ||
| Dec 18, 2018 at 4:40 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | Also, it's probably worth noting that having KER installed makes all this a lot easier, since it directly shows you your current orbital period. Otherwise you'll have to do the math for the transfer orbits yourself (remembering to correct for the fact that KSP measures altitude from sea level, not from Kerbin's center), and especially fine-tuning the final orbits to have matching periods so that they won't drift out of alignment can be quite tedious. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 4:31 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | You can't actually achieve a transfer orbit with a period 1/3 that of the final circular orbit, because even lowering your periapsis down to Kerbin's core would still only reduce the semi-major axis of the orbit by half, yielding an orbital period sqrt(1/2^3) ≈ 0.35 > 1/3 times that of the circular target orbit. A factor of 2/3 or 3/4 (for a four-satellite constellation) is quite doable, though. | |
| May 9, 2015 at 19:31 | comment | added | MBraedley | In that case, put the first one up and in its proper orbit, then put the other two up in staging orbits with periods of around 5 hours and 45 minutes, and then, when the time is right, put each of them in their proper orbit. | |
| May 9, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | Pvt. Grichmann | I'm afraid I don't have the technology for that quite yet. What should I do if I can only launch one at a time? | |
| May 9, 2015 at 17:28 | history | answered | MBraedley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |