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Bruski

Bruski
furrycat said:
Hypothesis: The altitude at which you enter the blue orbital cruise zone is proportional to surface gravity. I need more data points to test. So far I've found the OC and DRP points for planets with 6.7g, 3.95g, 3.03g, 1.41g, 0.99g, 0.63g, 0.58g, 0.28g, 0.26g and 0.15g. Low-gravity planets are easy to find; it's higher gravity bodies which I need to seek out. If you know a planet with gravity between 5g and 9g please point me to it.
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The new "Bodies" tab on EDDB may be useful. https://eddb.io/body
You can sort additional column, Gravity, set planetary landing to "Yes" and find several candidates within the bubble.

Finding the exact altitudes is a giant pain due to the HUD being slow to update. To find the blue altitude I've been approaching at a flat angle and zeroing the throttle then popping in and out of the zone. At low speed the altimeter moves slowly and it's easier to tell when you enter OC. To find the yellow altitude I've been doing a similar thing, flying down to 30km or so then setting the throttle to zero and angling just slightly below level flight.

Hypothesis: "Too fast" for orbital cruise means your vertical descent rate exceeds 200km/s at the OC point, 2.5km/s at the surface, and an interpolated value at any altitude inbetween. Italics for the bits I'm unsure about. We can use the cosine rule to calculate the vertical speed: indicated speed * cos(90 + indicated angle). We've all gone flying through the blue zone at high speed with a flat approach and on this race most of us have spun out at speeds not much more than 200km/s when diving toward the surface.
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I can confirm that within +/- 5km/s that 200m/s was the vertical speed limit for this planet at OC point. Is this true on other planets?

Let me know if you need any more help testing.
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Bruski said:
Is that a Hutton Orbital broadcaster reading it? That's pretty cool.

I currently only listen to Radio Sidewinder and Lave Radio, is it worth adding Hutton Orbital radio to my podcast list?
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I'm not actually sure who does the Galnet news feature. It's the same one that's been tagged on to the end of the last few episodes of Lave Radio - "We read the news, so you don't have to".
 
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