Moho Flyby
Apr. 2nd, 2024 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_sky_callsWith the Orbital Survey craft having entered Moho’s sphere of influence, I can now build a maneuver node and discover if my math was correct.
It was not.
3,625 m/s isn’t anywhere near the delta-V required to get into Moho orbit. Expending all that barely even changes the craft’s trajectory relative to Moho. I’m thinking I would have needed twice that.
It takes only 45 minutes to traverse Moho’s sphere of influence. Passing 68 km over Moho’s north pole, I don’t see anything of note even though, from KSP1 and spoilers from KSP2, I know the Mohole is supposed to be there.
In that flyby I am able to collect 370 points of science. It’s enough to get one of the last Tech Level 2 nodes with either trusses or xenon deepy space parts but I’m going to save up for the :”Rhino” and an extra large S3 fuel tank to be found in the first node in Tech Level 3. Those will be much more useful in the near term.
A new launch window to Moho opens up in a mere 6 days. I will try to build a craft with and additional 4,000 m/s of dV.
It was not.
3,625 m/s isn’t anywhere near the delta-V required to get into Moho orbit. Expending all that barely even changes the craft’s trajectory relative to Moho. I’m thinking I would have needed twice that.
It takes only 45 minutes to traverse Moho’s sphere of influence. Passing 68 km over Moho’s north pole, I don’t see anything of note even though, from KSP1 and spoilers from KSP2, I know the Mohole is supposed to be there.
In that flyby I am able to collect 370 points of science. It’s enough to get one of the last Tech Level 2 nodes with either trusses or xenon deepy space parts but I’m going to save up for the :”Rhino” and an extra large S3 fuel tank to be found in the first node in Tech Level 3. Those will be much more useful in the near term.
A new launch window to Moho opens up in a mere 6 days. I will try to build a craft with and additional 4,000 m/s of dV.
