Planetary Transfer Orbits

Slightly Complicated.

If you have been following my tutorial by now you should be sitting pretty in a nice stable orbit above Kerbin. This is where the complicated parts come in. What we aim to do in this tutorial is to get ourselves into an orbit around the Minmus (Moon). This is not as simple as pointing the spacecraft at the moon and flying there, it requires the pilot to understand phase angles which i will touch on very briefly for this tutorial.

Disclaimer.

There are many ways to perform orbital transfers so do not think that this is the only way to do it, i will discuss a couple of ways to perform orbital transfers, efficient and inefficient.

Goodbye Kerbin!

Now this is where the game becomes very cool, After this video tutorial you will be closer to the moon than the earth. The though is exciting isnt it!? So once in our obit what we want to do is to burn toward the planet we are aiming at. With a catch. We don't just burn towards it we have to perform a manuveor so that we burn and by the end of it we will be in the moons sphere of influence. To do this we have to predict where the planet will be by the time we start coming back down to Kerbin.This is done with phase angles, but i will explain that in the video, The reason for the lack on content in writing is because there is so much to explain and is simply easier in video so without further waiting, Enjoy!