![]() I managed to land once, but I hit with 13 m/s, which snapped off two of my landing legs and made it impossible for me to take off again. I mostly just need some more practice determining when I need to start my initial suicide burn to lower my velocity enough that I can still break wirh the radar altimeter kicks in while still having fuel left over for the final approach. Since I'm using the Mk1 cockpit I can't actually see the surface during landing. Next step I need to learn how to do properly is the landing. Capture is simple enough at that point, although one time I found myself on a direct collision course with the Mün instead of being slightly ahead/behind it. This has reliably gotten me within 150km of the Mün on 3 successive attempts. ![]() I noted down the approximate difference in angle between my prograde and approach vector when I started the Hohmanm burn and the final velocity I was moving at once it was done. ![]() (Still only using the navball and instruments to fly by). For this I went slightly un-manley and set the Mün as my target for the additional approach indicator on my navball. Next step was timing the Hohmann transfer. It usually takes me 3-4 correction burns but I can get very, very close to 0 eccentricity this way. Since the speed needed to maintain an orbit at a given height is known (2245.8m/s for 100km), I can then wait until my vertical speed hits 0 and burn prograde/retrograde to adjust apoapsis/periapsis. (Straight up for 10km, 45 degree inclination until 20km, 60 degrees until 30km, 85 degrees at 45km). I ran the mission with mechjeb once and noted down the velocities I needed using the ascent profile I used to get a 100km apoapsis.
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