My space station

[Pink]

Well, yeah.

You don't even need the navigation computer. Put your station into LEO and burn prograde until your orbital path heads out of the SOI.
Time warp until your station is outside Earth SOI and it should say 'you have entered the Suns SOI'. You are now in Heliocentric orbit.

Easy as pie!

 

[Altaïr]

but possible to put a space station around sun with new navigational in 1.5???

Unless you mean in Low Solar Orbit it's possible yes
Problem is, performing a rendez-vous in solar orbit is much harder than around a planet, because the speeds and distances involved are higher by several order of magnitudes. It's still possible, but hard, and quite expensive in terms of fuel.
All in all, you can send your station in solar orbit, but the difficulty to reach it kinda makes it useless after that

 

[Pink]

Unless you mean in Low Solar Orbit it's possible yes
Problem is, performing a rendez-vous in solar orbit is much harder than around a planet, because the speeds and distances involved are higher by several order of magnitudes. It's still possible, but hard, and quite expensive in terms of fuel.
All in all, you can send your station in solar orbit, but the difficulty to reach it kinda makes it useless after that

Fast, Fuel efficient, Easy.
Pick any two when rendezvous-ing in solar orbit.

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Unless you mean in Low Solar Orbit it's possible yes
Problem is, performing a rendez-vous in solar orbit is much harder than around a planet, because the speeds and distances involved are higher by several order of magnitudes. It's still possible, but hard, and quite expensive in terms of fuel.
All in all, you can send your station in solar orbit, but the difficulty to reach it kinda makes it useless after that

how about the spaces between planets?? maybe a stoppin area for somethin idk....

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Unless you mean in Low Solar Orbit it's possible yes

Ha! Don't say that so loudly. People will get ideas

how about the spaces between planets?? maybe a stoppin area for somethin idk....

Same rules apply. The planets are in heliocentric orbits, and everything in the spaces between planets will also be in heliocentric orbit and thus the orbital velocities are really high, the fuel required to get to them is a lot higher than would be required to dock at a station inside a nearby planets SOI

 

[Altaïr]

Fast, Fuel efficient, Easy.
Pick any two when rendezvous-ing in solar orbit.

If I could pick at least one I would be already happy

Same rules apply. The planets are in heliocentric orbits, and everything in the spaces between planets will also be in heliocentric orbit and thus the orbital velocities are really high, the fuel required to get to them is a lot higher than would be required to dock at a station inside a nearby planets SOI

Yes, that, and there's also the Oberth effect: a burn performed while being close to a planet will be more efficient. For a transfer from Earth to Mars for example, you benefit from the Oberth effect from Earth during your injection burn, and from the Oberth effect from Mars during your insertion burn, which makes the transfer's cost still acceptable. Paradoxically, if you started in solar orbit at Earth level and wanted to burn to Mars, it would be more expensive, despite the fact that you don't have to escape the Earth's gravity well first.

If you want to get to a space station in solar orbit, you don't get any Oberth effect from the station itself. The burn to synchronize your orbit and the one to leave the station will be very expensive. Really, it wouldn't be a very good idea to try to stop at mid-course.

As Horus said, it's much more practical to dock to a station that orbits a planet.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

If I could pick at least one I would be already happy

Several hours of ion drive buzzing later...

 

[Altaïr]

Several hours of ion drive buzzing later...

And I'm glad I picked the fast option

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

You know, I'm thinking on a Space Station in Low (very excentric) Solar Orbit

 

[Horus Lupercal]

You know, I'm thinking on a Space Station in Low (very excentric) Solar Orbit

How low are you thinking?

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

How low are you thinking?

Periapsis: Just above Sun's atmosphere
Apoapsis: A little lower than Mercury.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Periapsis: Just above Sun's atmosphere
Apoapsis: A little lower than Mercury.

Well, hope you got enough snacks for the trip.

Oh, and an absolute shit ton of fuel.

 

[Berg]

I was going to send the right dromes but I had an accident, only one survived

 

[Berg]

next module

 

[TtTOtW]

Put side fins on the flat sections next to your interstage. It will notably ease your flight.

 

[Berg]

Like this

 

[TtTOtW]

Like this View attachment 43259

No, the other kind. Shift the tanks back to overlap again.

 

[Berg]

 

[TtTOtW]

Yes

 

[TtTOtW]

And a fairing over your payload...

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

this is gettin huge now

 

[Berg]

 

[Berg]

I know this has nothing to do with the space station, but I'm too lazy to create a new topic

this is my satellite for mars

 

[Berg]

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Looks good.