Ok this will sound odd. I was discussing seamlessness in the Star Citizen thread, and someone stated that you could fly from planet to planet in Elite without using super cruise and I thought "well yeah, it seems like you COULD do that". Now I'd struggle with the time required to create a time lapse video of this, so before I try can I just ask: does anyone know of a time lapse video starting on one planet and flying at subluminal speeds to another planet in the same system?
REQ: time-lapse subluminal planet to planet video
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I've never seen a video of it being done, but I'm sure you could if you had the time.
You'd need to find a landable planet with a landable moon orbiting very close.
I'd want to do it in a very fast ship. If the moon were only 1ls away (299,792KM), at 500m/s that's 599584 seconds or 167 hours or 7 days.
At 800m/sec it will still take ~4.3 days continuous.
You would need to have a lot of fuel on board, which will slow you down for a while.
With 64 tons of fuel you would need to get fuel consumption down to 0.6t/h in order to make it without running out of fuel on the way.
You'd need to find a landable planet with a landable moon orbiting very close.
I'd want to do it in a very fast ship. If the moon were only 1ls away (299,792KM), at 500m/s that's 599584 seconds or 167 hours or 7 days.
At 800m/sec it will still take ~4.3 days continuous.
You would need to have a lot of fuel on board, which will slow you down for a while.
With 64 tons of fuel you would need to get fuel consumption down to 0.6t/h in order to make it without running out of fuel on the way.
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There's a video of going from a moon surface back to a planet surface, I'll have to search for it.
I wondered if the real time trip from earth to moon in SOl is acurate
I wondered if the real time trip from earth to moon in SOl is acurate
[video=youtube;XY7E0DEp5yI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY7E0DEp5yI[/video]
Since Elite is 1:1, yeah it takes time, Star Citizen last I checked is not 1:1.
It certainly works, what would concern me would be instancing. We know certain things load on entry to the system, it creates an instance that contains the bodies and information relating to the bodies, presumably the asteroids as well, but does the for instance the vulcanism load on system entry instance or arrival at the planet instance. The same could apply to alien ruins etc.
Is my math right?
That video shows a time of 15 hours (54,000 seconds). At 500m/s that's only 27,000KM or 0.09 light seconds. That's really close.
At 800m/s you can cover 43,200KM or 0.14LS in 15 hours
I didn't think about shutting off thrusters and everything else except life support to save fuel.
With everything off except life support I can get fuel consumption down to 0.05t/h which is >6 days with 8 tons of fuel.
For 15 hours you'd need <1 ton of fuel.
The planet was Ining A1 ? The system map doesn't show the orbital distance of the moon but the orbital period is 1.2 days which implies it's a lot closer than 1Ls
I'll have to head over there when I get a chance and check it out.
That video shows a time of 15 hours (54,000 seconds). At 500m/s that's only 27,000KM or 0.09 light seconds. That's really close.
At 800m/s you can cover 43,200KM or 0.14LS in 15 hours
I didn't think about shutting off thrusters and everything else except life support to save fuel.
With everything off except life support I can get fuel consumption down to 0.05t/h which is >6 days with 8 tons of fuel.
For 15 hours you'd need <1 ton of fuel.
The planet was Ining A1 ? The system map doesn't show the orbital distance of the moon but the orbital period is 1.2 days which implies it's a lot closer than 1Ls
I'll have to head over there when I get a chance and check it out.
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It'd be less than .09 LS, and you'll be burning fuel as you fly out of the gravity well. So you'd need to factor in his fuel consumption and speed as he left the planet.
so..... I wonder if an srv were to climb onto a ship it could complete the journey too??? im too far from civilisation to organise but the more interesting question is if the SRV did indeed make it could you then recall your ship
I have been on moons that were only 2.5 megametres apart, if you took off from one moon you ended up not leaving orbital cruise before being captured by the other moon, it was bizarre, I'm not sure how many really close moon pairs there are but that was unusually close for the systems I have explored. 27,000 kilometres on the other hand isn't unusual at all.
So I found myself on Colonia 3 C A and noticed it was only about 4Mm from it's parent.
I was in my Courier so I thought I'd give it a try.
Video https://youtu.be/NGrD6S7iZHw
[video=youtube_share;NGrD6S7iZHw]https://youtu.be/NGrD6S7iZHw[/video]
It was 1H 2M from takeoff to touchdown. The video is time compressed down to 22 minutes without cutting anything.
I would like to have compressed it even more but Sony Movie Studio wouldn't crunch the clips down any shorter.
Jump ahead when you get bored of watching the numbers change.
1:05 Takeoff and Ascension
6:00 Orbital Cruise Altitude
9:53 Halfway Gravity Transition
15:24 Orbital Cruise Altitude
19:25 Descent and Landing
I tried to fly the reverse course back to the moon but the moon orbits too fast (0.2d) and I was losing distance from it even at 500m/s
I was in my Courier so I thought I'd give it a try.
Video https://youtu.be/NGrD6S7iZHw
[video=youtube_share;NGrD6S7iZHw]https://youtu.be/NGrD6S7iZHw[/video]
It was 1H 2M from takeoff to touchdown. The video is time compressed down to 22 minutes without cutting anything.
I would like to have compressed it even more but Sony Movie Studio wouldn't crunch the clips down any shorter.
Jump ahead when you get bored of watching the numbers change.
1:05 Takeoff and Ascension
6:00 Orbital Cruise Altitude
9:53 Halfway Gravity Transition
15:24 Orbital Cruise Altitude
19:25 Descent and Landing
I tried to fly the reverse course back to the moon but the moon orbits too fast (0.2d) and I was losing distance from it even at 500m/s
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And that's why NASA doesn't chase moons. You don't actually fly to the moon, you just fly to where the moon will be when you get that far away from the earth. If it was just 0.2 day orbital period you could have waited there for it to come around again
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There have been a number of attempts at SRV orbital insertion we when discovered that back in 2.2 (I think) Mount Nerverest breached the Orbit Line and extruded above the planet's gravity. We were innocently attempting a summit bid in an SRV Exped when at a certain point, things took a turn for the surreal . . .
[video=youtube;FPtvDrDG1Ag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPtvDrDG1Ag&t=7122s[/video]
[video=youtube;FPtvDrDG1Ag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPtvDrDG1Ag&t=7122s[/video]