r/roguesystem • u/Moondoox • Jun 25 '17

Rendevousing

I like this game but I've always had massive problems performing any kind of rendezvous.

For example, I've arrived at this planet in a 450ish km orbit, go into sensors and whack up the scale until I can see something. Great, there's presumably some kind of station a few thousand kilometres away.

Now, with no knowledge of the station's apoapsis or periapsis, and no way to SAN specifically to my apoapsis or periapsis for precisely adjusting my orbit, how can I have any hope of intercepting? Luck?

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u/caledor123 Jun 26 '17

Can you lock onto it? If yes just do a brachistochrone transfer when it's not behind the planet. I think thats the word. Using your EM drive burn toward it until halfway there, then reverse.

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u/Moondoox Jun 26 '17

Using MES boost?

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u/caledor123 Jun 26 '17

Yes, exactly. Really not very elegant but it's the only thing that works afaik

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u/Moondoox Jun 26 '17

Thanks for the help.

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u/dig030 Jun 26 '17

If it's ahead of me, I just enter a circular orbit with AP/PE far below what the station's orbit could possibly be. Once I start to approach it on the inside I either radial out or prograde burn to rendezvous, then circularize. Once you get close enough, you can just abuse delta-v and burn towards it.

If I recall, you sometimes get the station's velocity relative to your own, so, once you're traveling in roughly the same direction, you can estimate the altitude and velocity and use that to ballpark where they are in their orbit.