Hello,
I've been using Orbiter for the last 10 years but I've only recently learned to use IMFD. Best decision ever.
My question is fairly specific. I'm flying a low-dV flight plan to Jupiter involving multiple flybys of inner solar system planets. In between my first flyby (Venus, MJD = 61365) and my second flyby (Earth, MJD = 61837), I orbit the sun about one and a quarter times before the Earth flyby. However when I try to enter these flyby dates into IMFD's course program to figure out my slingshot trajectory around Venus, IMFD assumes I want to complete less than one orbit around the sun before the Earth flyby, resulting in a very incorrect slingshot trajectory.
It's possible to tell TransX how many orbits you'd like to complete before target interception. How can I tell IMFD the same information in the course program?
Thank you! :tiphat:
I've been using Orbiter for the last 10 years but I've only recently learned to use IMFD. Best decision ever.
My question is fairly specific. I'm flying a low-dV flight plan to Jupiter involving multiple flybys of inner solar system planets. In between my first flyby (Venus, MJD = 61365) and my second flyby (Earth, MJD = 61837), I orbit the sun about one and a quarter times before the Earth flyby. However when I try to enter these flyby dates into IMFD's course program to figure out my slingshot trajectory around Venus, IMFD assumes I want to complete less than one orbit around the sun before the Earth flyby, resulting in a very incorrect slingshot trajectory.
It's possible to tell TransX how many orbits you'd like to complete before target interception. How can I tell IMFD the same information in the course program?
Thank you! :tiphat: