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Been having some issues with the EverythingSat contract and I wanted to see if this was as intended.
On that contract, a bonus objective is to establish a KSO with one of the CommSats. An orbit guide is supplied, which matches the distance for KSO. But if you match it exactly, the WAYPOINT for the bonus objective drifts normal/antinormal by several kilometers of the orbit guide (as viewed with WaypointManager). It seems to imply that the waypoint is following a different orbit (slight inclination). In order to complete the bonus objective, you need to be right on top of the waypoint for 4 hours, but without a guide for it, I've had to resort to using RCS to drift normal/antinormal with it for the full 4 hours (which brought up another issue I'll mention below.) Is it intended that the KSO waypoint doesn't follow the orbit guide exactly and we're supposed to drift with it or find a way to match inclination with it blindly?
Oooh, that's good. Contrary to popular belief, KSC is not on the equator, but at a latitude of -0.10266804865356. I did a quick calculation, and when you're all the way up in an equatorial orbit, that small latitude difference makes the point directly over KSC 12 km away. So if you set yourself up right at the waypoint, you'll drift up to 24 km away at the other side of the orbit.
So I think what I'll do is move the waypoint to zero latitude to match the orbit. A clever player (or one that reads this post) will know that it's not exactly over KSC... but it's close enough. :)
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Oooh, that's good. Contrary to popular belief, KSC is not on the equator, but at a latitude of -0.10266804865356. I did a quick calculation, and when you're all the way up in an equatorial orbit, that small latitude difference makes the point directly over KSC 12 km away. So if you set yourself up right at the waypoint, you'll drift up to 24 km away at the other side of the orbit.
So I think what I'll do is move the waypoint to zero latitude to match the orbit. A clever player (or one that reads this post) will know that it's not exactly over KSC... but it's close enough. :)
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