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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:

		eccentricity        = 0.01609636160505683
		inclination         = 23.44603795469773
		meanAnomalyAtEpochD = 357.0607464120944
		LAN                 = 359.9965004168758
		argumentOfPeriapsis = 102.9720683296131

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