Hello everyone, I'm a newcomer. Recently, I encountered a problem while playing in career mode. The problem is: how can I operate the spacecraft to keep it in a droo orbit at 8800km above 39°E? I know that the apogee of the orbit should be located at 39°E, but after raising the orbit, the apogee will deviate. Is there any calculation formula for this? Or are there any tips? Please let me know, thank you!
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15 Darthan184
I actually looked into this to place 3 sattelite in a stationary orbit 120 degrees apart with one over the Droo space center.
[Droo Synchronous Sattelite](https://www.simplerockets.com/c/3O7d15/Droo-Synchronous-Sattelite)
The synchronous orbit altitude I used was 8804 km for a 14 hour orbit. This is the planet day length as reported by Vizzi. I'm assuming this is the sidereal day length (relative to fixed stars). The solar day (noon to noon) will be different from this.
Droo space center is at 130W.
Starting from a 85km orbit using a starting TWR of 1.25 (the burn starts point may differ for a different TWR or a diferrent start orbit)
- Start burn at 122E to place sat over DSC (252 E or 108 W or target)
- Start burn at 118W to place sat 120 deg east of this
- Start burn at 2E to place sat 120 deg west of this -
15 491mike
@Toinkove I tried a new method, which is to rely entirely on time calculations to ensure that when my spacecraft transitions from a low orbit to a high orbit, it just reaches the apogee of 8800km and is precisely at the position of 39°E.
However, I found a problem. In this game, JUNO's time to reach the apogee is very rough. If I were to accurately account for the burn time (which is also very rough), it seems that it would only deviate the result.
But I think this rough method should also be able to get to the approximate position you mentioned, and then make fine adjustments. Because the mission time only allows for 5 days, I'm really upset.
I managed to get one in orbit at about 125.4km or 150.4km