1
Needed to aerobrake for 20 orbits to finally land.
Post Body
Just a warning to others, don't make the same mistake I made.
Started a new career, my first attempt at orbiting, I make it to orbit, but with a quite high apoapsis because I messed up my ascent. Get the orbit achievement but don't have enough dV to bring my periapsis down enough, and just get to 68,000.
In just a capsule with a heat shield and parachute, it takes me over 20 orbits, each time bringing my apoapsis down by a few km. Took forever. Couldn't send a rescue team to speed it up as my tech is low and have not even unlocked EVA yet!
Don't make the mistake I did, to aerobrake, make sure your periapsis is lower than 60,000.
Author
Account Strength
100%
Account Age
16 years
Verified Email
Yes
Verified Flair
No
Total Karma
39,996
Link Karma
3,380
Comment Karma
36,616
Profile updated: 15 hours ago
Posts updated: 7 months ago
Subreddit
Post Details
We try to extract some basic information from the post title. This is not
always successful or accurate, please use your best judgement and compare
these values to the post title and body for confirmation.
- Posted
- 9 years ago
- Reddit URL
- View post on reddit.com
- External URL
- reddit.com/r/KerbalSpace...