Hi All
I'm attempting to do the career mission to achieve a heliosynchronous orbit. With my current rocket I always seem to run out of fuel.
My first bunch of attempts I'd get into a circularised orbit around the 1,000km mark, but could only get to 25-30 degrees of inclination.
Then I started getting to low orbit, then trying to achieve the 100 degree inclination first. This way I've been able to get to 40-45 degrees of inclination and the apoapsis and periapsis drift out to around 700km before I run out of fuel once more.
Is it just a matter of packing on more fuel, or is there a specific sequence of tasks to achieve the orbit?
Cheers
Phil
I'm 2.5 years late but I wanted to let any others struggling with orbit inclinations that you're supposed to be using a formula to deduct the correct launch angle to achieve it, here, I'll explain. The launch inclination formula goes as follows, Cos(i)=Sin(A)Cos(O) where i will be the orbit inclination that you want, A will be the launch inclination (The angle that you launch at), And O will be the inclination of the launch pad.
Now to the younger players don't get freaked out, I'll explain
Say you want an orbit inclination of 30 degrees and you're launching at DCS pad which has an inclination of 0 degrees since it's situated on the equator, you'll plug these into the formula which will result in this: Cos(30)=Sin(A)Cos(0), you may recognize that this formula is basically just algebra, simply think of Sin(A) as x and solve, we bring sin(A) to the left of the formula and divide Cos(30) by Cos(0) which will look like this: Sin(A)=(Cos(30)/Cos0), (USE A CALCULATOR TO SOLVE THIS!!!), one this is solved you'll get the value of A which will most likely be a long string of random decimals, simply plug them into inverse sin (sin-1), this will look like
sin-1(0.8860254038) which will result in an angle of 60 degrees meaning that in order to get an orbit inclination of 30 degrees whilst launching from DCS pad you'll need to make sure that your inclination of 60 degrees (on the orange circle in the nav ball).