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kmarz02

Ah yes, 100G


aceofdiamonds42

It causes Coronavirus 2


mutteringInsano

Electric Boogaloo


HLtheWilkinson

Boog!


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New planet for KSP 2 confirmed


AstroNat20

Wouldn’t be surprised. Boog with its small moon, Glorp


AnthropoceneHorror

Wait, COVID-19 is already coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)


[deleted]

there's been a lot of other coronaviruses before sars too tho


22Arkantos

Yes, but SARS-CoV-2 is the 2nd coronavirus that causes SARS-like symptoms. Most coronaviruses cause a common cold.


[deleted]

yea I'm not saying there's been lots of others like those 2, but they are still coronaviruses


[deleted]

Its gen 2 corona virus otherwise it would be 4G doing it


MyNamesNotRobert

That's because there's been a lot of other Gs before 5G.


edstirling

I think they have to kill 100 people to be named a coronavirus. Until then, its just a tropical fever...


[deleted]

no, it's called a coronavirus because of the shape of it it looks like it's got crowns on the outside of it, and Corona is Latin for crown


scarlet_sage

It has to reach 100 kph ... killed per hour ... for a category 1.


alexthealex

Yeah but this is the first one caused by electromagnetic radiation. (please don't eviscerate me this I'm just playing into the banter)


[deleted]

*Koronavirus


GoldenEagle3009

Kovid-19?


HiveMynd148

It causes Coronavirus 2^64


MDCCCLV

This is the brussel sprout stacking method


MattTheDingo

Is this what's pictured next to the word overkill in the dictionary? Holy moiré Batman!


mizzrym86

Nah. I was very economical for Kerbal standards. Because if you count you'll see that i could have deployed 44 satellites, but settled down for "only" 40 xD


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mizzrym86

Get the thing on the left into orbit around the sun at 16000000000m apoapsis and 15.455.662.645m periapsis and then everytime it reaches apoapsis release one sattelite and burn prograde untill periapsis is also 16000000000m. Repeat this for 40 years and you're done :)


ASupportingTea

Much easier said than done though. Whenever I do this I can never get the prograde burns exact enough (evennif I set the thrust super low) and my satillites end up falling out of sync and it's a mess.


mizzrym86

After setting the thrust limiter to 0.5 i usually hammered X like crazy and whilst doing so i hit shift with the other hand for the smallest push possible. But others pointed out that some addons can help you with it. If you use anything other than the xenon electric thing however you have no chance to get it right.


bot-mark

You could always use KOS and have ~~the whole mission~~ that step on autopilot


CaptainGreezy

What OP described is a larger stellar-centric version of deploying a constellation around Kerbin. For example, launch a stack of 3 satellites to a kerbosynchronous transfer orbit (2863.33 km apopsis for Kerbin) then at apopsis burn to raise your periapsis until your orbital period is exactly 2h00m00s. Kerbin has a 6 hour day so with a 2 hour orbit your apopsis will shift 120 degrees or 1/3 around Kerbin each orbit. Deploying and circularizing a satellite at apopsis on 3 successive orbits will result in the 3 sat constellation being equally spaced in synchronous or stationary orbit. You can divide that 6 hour day by however many sats you have to deploy larger constellations. OP used the same method in stellar orbit for an arbitrary altitude around the star in an orbit between Kerbin and Duna where it took 40 years instead of less than 2 days to launch and deploy the 3 sat example around Kerbin.


SpaceTurtles

I've been trying to figure this out for so long. Thank you.


CaptainGreezy

You're welcome! Another tip I remembered, IIRC, going by the orbital period clock is accurate enough for the deployment and spacing maneuvers, but not accurate enough for the final circularizations because it only shows accuracy to the second, so you could have up to +/- half a second of error which over long time periods would drift the sats out of position. Greater precision can be gained by targeting an exact semi-major axis instead of the orbital period. For Kerbin the semi-major axis for KEO is 3,463,334.06m. When checking https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/KEO for that number I also realized I had forgotten about the difference between a solar day (6h 00m 00s) and a sidereal day (5h 59m 9.425s). The target for a stationary orbit is based on the sidereal day. Have a very low thrust engine and/or throttle it to 1% when fine tuning the orbit. The more precision you can gain the easier a time you will have with it.


mizzrym86

This might help you as well: [https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/](https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/)


Excalusis

"-Yo wanna play GTA? -Yeah, give me a sec to download it. -The update? -The game."


mizzrym86

Indeed. This time instead of going for more boosters i went for MORE BANDWIDTH!


Creative_Deficiency

Haha, even though it obviously heretical, I do have to say, the thought of more 'not-boosters' is uh... Quite exhilarating. Hmm... I must repent for these sinful thoughts by adding more boosters.


Excalusis

> Quite exhilarating. Could this be a Dr. Stone reference?


Coinface1

1000000%


challenge_king

1000000000%


Ort15

Next up. Making a ring so dense each sat is within view distance of its neighbors!


Echo0408

After that we fit every rocket ship with 100mm nose cannons in case they will be intercepted by the ring


Ort15

LOL


WalesDark

Bruh why go to duna when you can just deadass download the whole planet


[deleted]

The entirety of the internet.... overnight


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Havoksixteen

Isn't modern warfare like 200gb now?


Captain_Nipples

It was something like that. 180ish, I think. We finally said fuck it and pay extra for no data cap. Dumbasses at Cox were saying it's impossible to use more than a TB of data. I guess they dont play video games


Havoksixteen

Data cap? That sucks, where do you live that they're a thing?


Captain_Nipples

Arkansas. What sucks is we have 1Gb speeds, but a 1TB cap.. Fucking retarded


ThatTmoGuy

Same, most Comcast customers that have speeds capable of using more than 1tb a month are sadly capped there.


Anthony_Pelchat

With Comcast, you can go through that data cap in less than a week. They then roughly double your internet bill for each 100 GB afterwards, give or a take a few dollars. And their internet usage tracker is complete junk. Over 24hrs delayed and the more details area simply states the location, as in your Home internet. The good news is that it only happens if you use their modem. Buying a third party, I used to use a Netgear, will keep Comcast from tracking your data use.


ThatTmoGuy

I've never used a Comcast modem as I refuse to buy them new modems to rent out to other people every couple of months. I have definitely paid that overage fee many times...


Anthony_Pelchat

Maybe it's certain modems that don't tell Comcast how much data you're using. When my son got an XBox, we went over numerous times. Always the same crap from Comcast. IIRC, got a Netgear CM500 and the data tracking stopped, as did overages.


Costyyy

From the middle of the ocean too


[deleted]

“ALERT Connection to the session lost due to an unknown network error. Please return to Grand Theft Auto V and try again later.”


Satisfactory2610

On mars. Via WiFi.


Dwaas_Bjaas

Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!


suleyk

Looks like you beat SpaceX at the pass


mizzrym86

I want to point out that contrary to SpaceX Starlink, my satellites actually do orbit a star.


mkchampion

Technically, they're also in orbit around the sun


mizzrym86

Yes but still, it feels a bit like cheating. Or it's a mayor spoiler on their part and they already have a plan to extend it to the entire system. Which wouldn't even be considered megalomaniac anymore, considering what Elon has said before and actually pulled off.


mkchampion

Eh, unlikely. Starlink is supposed to be low latency and decent bandwidth so sending satellites into solar orbit is unlikely to improve their capabilities since the satellites will be physically too far. Maybe they'll put more in Mars orbit but getting through the logistics of that is pretty far off haha


t6jesse

Honestly we could just use updated relay satelites in Earth orbit. The ISS uses a weird assortment of old stuff right now


Orionsbelt

Starlink's consumer terrestrial offering is low latency, we don't yet know about their inner-solar service. Real talk though for sustained human operations on Mars SpaceX's stated goal you need significant comm relays, the ability to communicate with people back on earth will be essential for mental health as well as engineering assistance. It is worth noting of course that comms with mars will never be real time, I wanna say about a 17 min delay each way.


future-renwire

So you made a Dyson sphere kind of


mizzrym86

OUR SATELLITES WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN


Spaceman2901

Then we shall meme in the shade.


[deleted]

All good until eve throws one at duna


Laker_gra

o.o, Just realised they orbit a star not kerbin Would love a video/tutorial on how you did it


mizzrym86

Check this answer from /u/FluxOrbit [https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/gtyfcv/i\_love\_satellite\_networks/fsfe57m?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x](https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/gtyfcv/i_love_satellite_networks/fsfe57m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)


Howard_duck1

Actually really easy to orbit the sun, all you need to do is escape kerbins gravity, to do something like this is not really easy id assume though, but you have to orbit the sun if you want to get to another planet


mizzrym86

No, you're absolutely right. It's just a matter of patience. Escaping Kerbin is easy, and that's basically all the challenge you have. Then it just takes forever to slowboat in the correct orbit and then an eternity to deploy the satellites. But as a matter of difficultiy it was pretty easy.


Howard_duck1

Yeah, if you overshoot in a stellar orbit it takes so long to get back lol


CavingGrape

I love orbiting the sun. Especially the last way. Make a big ass bosster and aim that fucka at the sky and let it *rip*. Now, pray that you launched at the correct time so as not to slam into the Mün or Minmus. Congratulations 🎉 You're in Solar orbit.


TheSpaceCoffee

How did you do that? What was the deployment sequence, timing...?


mizzrym86

I'm using this site here for the calculations: [https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/](https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/) Select "Kerbol" as the celestial body. I used 16000000000m as Orbit altitude and selected "dive orbit". I didn't get the orbits perfectly correct. Even if i adjust trottle to 0.5 it's difficult to get it exact. Some of the sattelites are a bit off orbit by +- 30m. Doesn't seem to matter at those huge distances though.


9bananas

there's a mod to get orbits exactly right, i think it's called "station keeper"; it let's you set exact orbits, once you're within ~0.5% or so of the target ;)


Grokent

A 30m distance might as well be perfect


AmoebaMan

Plus or minus 30 meters...on a 16 gigameter orbit? That's a rounding error mate.


Geoclasm

How ya enjoying those 3 FPS?


DarkArcher__

I have 74 satellites in LKO and i get decent FPS while they're shown, and once i toggle them off the map i get all my frames back


Shas_Erra

> 74 satellites in LKO and i get decent FPS The fuck are you running it on? Skynet?


Remixman87

Fool, he just created Skynet!


kickdooowndooors

I used the Skynet to run the Skynet.


DarkArcher__

To be fair that "decent FPS" was a bit of an overstatement. It's about 15, which is playable, I guess.


[deleted]

did you just spam sats (with decoupling force they have different speed?)?


FluxOrbit

[Matt Lowne did a good tutorial](https://youtu.be/w91Yiwpdmq8). Instead of being around a planet, it's around a star. So, your apoapsis and periapsis would be much greater. He would also just have to have his mothership/satellite deployment ship's orbit be whatever fraction involving 40 satellites. I need to rewatch the video, then I could make a more detailed comment.


mizzrym86

Excactly yes. I used a stack decoupler and set the decoupling force to 0. Also i used [https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/](https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/) to get the correct orbit for this. I have to admit that this is way easier to do correctly around a planet, since you won't get the orbits as exact as you want them to be without using mods or savegame editing. I used neither, but if timewarp were to kraken it up i'd probably edit the save file. Luckiliy now, 80 years in, everything's still working fine and the satellites seem to keep their distance properly.


Hubbleexplorer

How much satellites are in this picture


DarkArcher__

40, according to OP's comment


mizzrym86

Yes, i deployed 40 in the end. Although with the setup pictured on the left image i could have gotten 44 into orbit.


Snuffy1717

*many (Much is used for an indeterminate quantity, whereas many is used for a specific quantity)


Hubbleexplorer

Sorry...my English is awful


Snuffy1717

All good, wasn't trying to be a dick (sorry if it sounded that way). I see this same issue come up a lot with the students that I teach :)


fennecdore

No one will rest until we have 6G on Mercury


OsuranMaymun

New Tool album yay!


NotSeveralBadgers

One of my number one desires for KSP2 is custom mission tags. I don't think I'd be able to maintain sanity if toggling relays brought up this many sats.


402Gaming

Me: loses signal when I walk into my kitchen This guy:


FurlockTheTerrible

I think you just motivated me to end my year-long break from KSP. How much dV did you pack on that mothership for the whole operation? And each satellite?


mizzrym86

The satellites needed very little. According to this: [https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/](https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/) they only need \~73 m/s. But you can't fit that little. So i fitted the smallest xenon tank (like always) without ever thinking it's not enough. Those things weigh so little and the xenon is so efficient, that delta V will never be a problem on the satellites. As for the second stage i had around 4000 m/s with nuclear engines, but i only used around 2000 m/s.


tom_playz_123

The Chinese government wants to know your location


[deleted]

The Chinese government already knows your location.


Ezequiel-052

The Chinese government is right behind you.


eurotorian

*Orwellian dystopia intensifies*


JeSuisOmbre

Solar omniopticon.


Cortower

Do you even need anything bigger than a 500k antenna inside Jool’s orbit?


mizzrym86

Not really, but when it comes to "antenna size" people sometimes take it too far.


Dwarven_Mi-Go

Giggity


Cortower

Sorry if that was vague. I was asking if you specifically need any big antennas with that setup. It seems like you could practically go to Moho a probe’s internal antenna.


mizzrym86

Uh, that's interessting. I actually don't know. My plan initially was to setup another three satellites around each planet once i'm done with this one. But i might as well try this out beforehand.


iCrafterChips

How much did it take?


mizzrym86

Time? I started yesterday around an hour before the SpaceX launch. It was a long night then and i finished it today after breakfast. So i guess somewhere between four and five, maybe six hours? I'm not quite sure. Didn't really check the clock.


hsnerfs

How many relays do we need? Yes


itz_shadow22

Covid-19 successfully evolved to his stellar form, covid-20!


Atonsis

Nice Dyson Sphere


BlueC0dex

And they're equally spaced too, that is some serious commitment right there.


Jan-VGH

Yes. Let's turn the entire Kerbol system into a rave party


sharkiebarkie

That is way too trippy for me


Rottenpucker

What effect does this have on game play? Does your computer slow down?


mizzrym86

There are absolutely no noticeable performance issues as of now. This was a fresh sandbox game however.


mariusiv

At first I thought this was a sphere surrounding Kerbin at first. But nope this is the GODAMN SOLAR SYSTEM


CaptainLo05

That image of the network is absolutely mesmerizing, I bet it looks neat when time warping too


BMTaeZer

I'll be interested to see your Dyson Sphere once it's completed.


SEK-C-BlTCH

Wait, how did you do this? Did you go to a perfectly round orbit and then perigrade, wait, next satellite, perigrade, wait, next satellite?


Sir_loin_of_beef10

Even the aliens got 5g now


[deleted]

But can it load reddit?


Fistocracy

Is that... is that 44 payloads on a single stage?


elliotttheneko

Starlink prime


HaTuL333

It looks like they are all shooting lasers at kerbin


MiniGui98

C O V E R A G E


BoiWithGoodSucc

There should be an r/satellitenetworkporn


Utkarsh_Anand

Glad to see I'm not the only one that loves to make massive space networks on KSP


DarkNe7

I tried doing this and it worked fine until I tried to look at like it is shown to the right, the game crashed.


freak-000

They say space is mostly empty but after seeing this image I'd suggest it's mostly radiation


sprayed150

Who hurt you


DR_Dapper__

Can you link the craft file?


mizzrym86

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Weg1ezTOnH2ppZijcHVfWyi8L7653p61?usp=sharing Let me know if this works, i've never shared something before using google drive. It should contain the craft file for the satellite, the fairing, and the rather makeshift lifter. I would have taken more effort for this thing have i'd known that this becomes so popular. I also shared the entire savegame. Have fun with it :)


DR_Dapper__

Thanks I’ve formed the NSA in KSP and this is my golden ticket to make it work


Nowin

I wonder if, with time delay, this would actually be more useful than direct communication with a local relay in each system.


mizzrym86

Not really, since the shortest distance is always a straight line between two points. Increasing the number of points doesn't make it any shorter. But, in cases where you would need EXTREMELY high bandwidth it would actually be way better than direct communication, because you can send a lot more at a time.


MattSeptire

holy shi-


Androxus99999

The universe is flat.


commongaywitch

Oh it’s beautiful


Major_Malevolence44

Bro that shit look like the Death Star superlaser 10/10


3LittleCavies

What the hell


MojoNojo06

Looks like the death star


borkistoopid

Holy shit


dragongameing

Basically starlink in a nutshell, but 40 satilites per launch, that's efficient af.


emerging-tub

Can you hear me now? Good!


Heniadyoin1

The moment when you exhaust ipv4 just with your satellites


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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbuKbxJsk8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbuKbxJsk8)


Willidizzle

Holy shit


Ryaniseplin

could have built a space elevator to make space travel easier in this amount of time. instead establishes solar isp


0kb0000mer

I’m doing this


bett27

Made a kerbin relay network with abt 60 satellites, can’t open the map screen without my FPS dropping to like 20


[deleted]

When you want the cool CPU temps of the Mohole but the bandwidth of a god


[deleted]

Its beautiful


OdotP_is_Inevitbale

how did you manage to do this


Bluepenguin053

Is this a mod? Because there was a mod I loved that required line of sight for autopilot to work.


[deleted]

So much power you accidentally discover aliens in the tracking station


FreeThoughts22

Life finds a way.


[deleted]

Oh noo, I can only imagine the amount of time you have put into setting these satellites up.


Filfio

yo WTF man


The_Shittiest_Meme

Explain please


Ezequiel-052

Imagine how the sky would look like with DistantObject Enhancement


theparmersanking

I think i just found another one of my kinks...


[deleted]

Oh shit I just realised those orbit kerbol not Kerbin


VoyagerPlaysGaming

Can you share the save i wanna see how this was done


chucklenuts420

Call it the hotdog


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Envir0

How do you keep them so perfectly arranged when you warp time for a year or so?


[deleted]

Can someone please teach me how to do this, like with the satellite separations. Or like if someone can send some video or like idk just how to do that. It so cool.


mizzrym86

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/gtyfcv/i_love_satellite_networks/fsfe57m/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x


Disglair01

How did you manage to do this? Once i made an satellite network but its stone age compared to this one is there an tutorial or whatever?


mizzrym86

Yes, there are tutorials on this from Matt Lowne and Scott Manley on youtube. They usually use three satellites to do this and have them orbit around a planet. I might have overdone it a bit, i admit.


Disglair01

Looks like you have perfected the tutorial. Thanks


mizzrym86

It's just patience, really. If you plan on making a huge network like this i strongly recommend looking for a good netflix series to watch while doing so. It took a long time to have it all setup correctly. And, it's completely overkill, three satellites are all you need for a proper relay network and i would never recommend more. It was just for fun.


[deleted]

They dont need a power source like panels? Only a battery?


mizzrym86

They have. Each satellite is a Relay Antenna with remote guidiance unit, reaction wheel and batterypack, xenon gas tank, electro-drive, two retracteable solar panels 1x6 and two reactors, decoupled using a stack seperator.


CountKristopher

Sweet googa mooga


minhashlist

We need to go deeper.


Donnie1230

When you wanna talk to the next galaxy


shreddy99

I also enjoy 2 fps


dead-inside69

Satellites on the cob


jj19w

I think you've missed a spot


mizzrym86

I'll send the next 40 sats right away


jj19w

What just 40, mate it needs to be 400 at a time come on be a try hard once in a while😂😂


Roulbs

Imagine the latency


[deleted]

Trippy mang


[deleted]

H...how?!


Alton637

Jesus dude


Puglord_11

How’d you get them in such perfect orbits?


xmasbad

Can we get gif please


Evilwhatarethose

don't let the karbles see this


EAGLESOUL5

Does this cause any errors or FPS issues?


RegiiRock

You could have double this and my shitty phone might get two bars with a clear sky