...be careful when the Earth's gravitational influence reaches around 40, as your orbit will no longer be completely stable for some dumb reason.
Not to be a downer, but there is a very logical reason as to why that happens- try watching the Orbit MFD using different REF settings to find out! I'll give you a hint, there might be some solfully important that is messing with your earth-relative orbit.
Sadly, I only know how to do it as this noob way as I don't know how to use IMFD or TransX as I said above.
I knew that the Sun had influence, but influence THAT close to Earth?!
That must explain why the Moon is barely escaping Earth orbit at maybe 3.8 cm per year then...
So then all my planning will go to waste of me going to the moon the "right" way using minimal instruments...
I've always found getting back to be far easier (not that I've ever tried going there) - just start firing your engines as Earth comes over the lunar horizon!
I knew that the Sun had influence, but influence THAT close to Earth?!
That must explain why the Moon is barely escaping Earth orbit at maybe 3.8 cm per year then...
İİ14;134690 said:I once flew to the moon and landed on the lunar base,but i guess i kinda cheated by starting from the top of the space elevator. Basicly i waited for the closest approach of the moon then flew towards it,and doing retro and pro burns. the hardest part of it was finding the damn base, after i got me on the right track i slowed down.Finally reachin the base,but sadly i dont have that scenerio anymore. I got pictures of the treck though
The sun even has influence on the surface on the earth. By its radiation of course, but its gravity also makes the difference between spring tide and normal tide.
But AFAIK the fact that the moon is escaping slowly with a few cm per year is caused by another effect. If I am correct, this is because the tidal waves on Earth, caused by the moon's gravity, are dragged forward by the Earth's rotation. The tidal wave closest to the moon is therefore a bit in front of the moon, and the gravity from this tidal wave acting on the moon drags the moon a bit forward, increasing its orbital energy, and making its orbit a bit wider.
The fact that the moon is in a rather stable orbit around the Earth in fact demonstrates that the sun really isn't disturbingly enough at that distance. If a spacecraft's orbit is unstable at those distances, I think the moon itself may be the major disturbing factor on the spacecraft's orbit.