There’s a certain irony to the fact that this flight, the third Astra has attempted since their founding in 2016, was the first to be live streamed to YouTube. It’s worth noting that it was the ground controller’s decision to cut the rocket’s engines once it had flown high and far enough away to not endanger anyone on the ground that ultimately ended the flight the booster itself was still fighting to reach space until the very last moment.
In fact, that the 11.6 meter (38 feet) vehicle was able to navigate through its unprecedented lateral maneuver and largely correct its flight-path is a testament to the engineering prowess of the team at the Alameda, California based company. Instead of going up and then burning towards the horizon, it made an exceptionally unusual sideways flight before finally moving skyward.Īs you might expect, the booster didn’t make it to orbit. So in that sense, the recent launch conducted by aerospace startup Astra could be seen as the vehicle simply getting the order of operations wrong. So you falling back into the surface just deploy your parachutes when you couple hundred meters and you should be good.It’s often said that getting into orbit is less about going up, and more about going sideways very fast. This height or lower will guarantee you will reenter the atmosphere in one orbit." Can be counter-intuitive if you need to burn on the Kerbin side, as your Mun apoapsis will initially head away from Kerbin, don't worry about this and keep burning until the Mun apoapsis exits its sphere of influence.īurn until you have a Kerbin orbit trajectory in the map view with a Kerbin periapsis below 20 km. This helps to easily get a Kerbin orbit with a the lowest point of orbit (periapsis) close to Kerbin.
The effect of this maneuver is increasing your speed relative to the Mun but reduce your speed relative to Kerbin as you are burning in opposite direction to movement of the Mun around Kerbin. If you are orbiting around the Mun in the same direction as the Mun is around Kerbin, then burn prograde when you are between Mun and Kerbin, otherwise you need to burn prograde on the far side of the Mun. Here is a section from the wiki that will explain better than I note this is ksp wiki but it should apply here "To get back to Kerbin the easiest way (as suggested by Scott Manley) is to burn prograde at the point in your orbit where you're moving opposite to the direction the Mun is going in its orbit around Kerbin. So your falling on the moon once you get close to the surface boost prograde by a time bit to soften your landing.Ĭongrats your one the moon, go and chill in a rover or other stuff. Once in orbit to land just retrograde with your lander or whatever.
time warp to the point when you are just above the moon and at the center or that encounter and now go retrograde to get in orbit. Once in orbit time warp till the moon is just above the horizon then boost off prograde and open the map and when you intersect the moon just lower the throttle so you can get a encounter.
Launch the rocket and do the normal stuff to get into orbit. This is from my experience from KSP so it might not work well you can test if you are beta user. So this is a guide for new players who might wanna go to moon, Mun, Luna what ever its called.
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