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I've been writing orbiter tutorial for Japanese players for a few years. Now I'm thinking about giving more detailed explanation for TransX Escape plan.
The problem is, there are not so many orbiter players in Japan... no one would correct me even if I made a mistake.
Here is my explanation for TransX Escape plan. Please tell me if there's anything wrong.
In Eject plan you can create interplanetary transfer orbit. How do we get to this transfer orbit from Earth?
In this image below, red line shows the direction towards the transfer orbit from Earth.
Blue curved line is a hyperbolic orbit which is parallel with transfer orbit. (Green circle is parking orbit)
Red line and blue curved line are not the same but the difference is negligible compared with huge distance towards the target planet.
We live in 3-dimensional space. Therefore we can rotate this hyperbolic orbit around red line.
Actually there are infinitely many possible hyperbolic orbits. You can go in the desired direction from above, below and both sides of the planet.
This means there's always one hyperbolic orbit passing over your launch site.
If you use TransX, you can find it using Ej Orientation (Eject Orientation) function in Escape plan.
The problem is, there are not so many orbiter players in Japan... no one would correct me even if I made a mistake.
Here is my explanation for TransX Escape plan. Please tell me if there's anything wrong.
In Eject plan you can create interplanetary transfer orbit. How do we get to this transfer orbit from Earth?
In this image below, red line shows the direction towards the transfer orbit from Earth.
Blue curved line is a hyperbolic orbit which is parallel with transfer orbit. (Green circle is parking orbit)
Red line and blue curved line are not the same but the difference is negligible compared with huge distance towards the target planet.
We live in 3-dimensional space. Therefore we can rotate this hyperbolic orbit around red line.
Actually there are infinitely many possible hyperbolic orbits. You can go in the desired direction from above, below and both sides of the planet.
This means there's always one hyperbolic orbit passing over your launch site.
If you use TransX, you can find it using Ej Orientation (Eject Orientation) function in Escape plan.