Solar System

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https://www.simplerockets.com/PlanetarySystems/View/K2F4wJ/SolarSoft-Flight-Simulator

3.0 is Here!

https://www.simplerockets.com/PlanetarySystems/View/J16ba9/Solar-System-3-0

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https://www.simplerockets.com/PlanetarySystems/View/t7He8S/Solar-System-2-9

I love our system so much this is a W mod but can you add Plutos moon Nix? (I owned a blue crawfish and named him Nix after the moon) I love Nix also can you add a little moon of Saturn is called Ymir those are some things I would like to see in this package but overall this is a great mod!

https://www.simplerockets.com/PlanetarySystems/View/T7w6A0/Solar-System-2-8

Solar System 2.8 is still out!

@Samps0n in the planet studio there is a thing says “scale height” ? Is this sandbox intricate enough that increasing rotation of earth drastically would bulge all the water at equatorial latitudes , even creating flooding ?

@Samps0n Nice to meet you :-)
But I do not know, what you are talking about, sorry.
The Earth radius is too big. The surface gravity is correct (nearly, exact would be 9.80665 m/s^2 with radius = 6371km).
This combination leads to a too high gravity acceleration in 130km alitude leading to 8.2 km/s orbital speed instead of 7.8km/s.
Simple as that!
Earth is not a perfect sphere. It is neither a perfect ellipsoid. There is a term for the form, but I forgot. But in good approximation (especially for Juno) it is a sphere.
@RichGWall @SolarCompany

@TomKerbal
Maybe the high rotation rate is the cause of your missing polar sea lvl…. Is there anyone model that tells the boat where it is+/-relative to the mean sea lvl??!
What’s the scale height do?

@TomKerbal " I made some tests in Earth atmosphere; it looks promising concerning the re-entry issues. BUT.
Orbital Speed is much too high (8.2km/s instead of 7.8km'

I got the same result the Orbital Velocity at180 Km was 8338 m/sec.
The night sky is beautiful in this build which I very much liked. As I descended towards the Ocean, the closer I came, the water visuals were very interesting. I had no depth perception, almost like an optical illusion, but I really did like it's aesthetic. It was just different.

Reentry was very smooth, and I could control the capsule. The heat shield never heated up over 1800 C, and never glowed. But I came down safe and sound and the capsule bobbed in the water as it should.

I never looked into how hot the shield should be. You might know.

I think the Moon is a lot closer to Earth in this system, but I have not measured it out. Is the scale 1:1 ?

@SolarCompany Ah, I see the Error: Your Earth has a radius of 7,274 km which is of course wrong (right: 6371km @ mean sea level. +- a few hundred meters at the poles)

@SolarCompany @RichGWall
I made some tests in Earth atmosphere, it looks promizing concerning the re-entry issues. BUT.
Orbital Speed is much too high (8.2km/s instead of 7.8km). I think the gravitation constant for Earth you use is about 5% too high.
It should be 9.80665 m/s^2 at radius of 6371km of Earth.