#Kerbal space program controls locked full

White Sand's planet Taldain is tidally locked between two stars, probably as a Trojan planet in a Lagrangian point: a blue-white supergiant shines on the Dayside, while a white dwarf within a particle ring bathes the Darkside in ultraviolet.

This had the desired effect of causing Krypton to rotate, shifting the ecosystem to something more hospitable for everyone. Duly inspired they reported this phenomenon back to their people, who then mined as much of if not all their respective metals as possible and dumped them together into a chasm. They interacted to generate a force that rotated the boulder they rested upon. At one point both warriors became disarmed, their weapons of unique metals in contact with each other. Eventually both decided to have one last battle with elected champions to determine who would have sole rights to the land.

One story states that Krypton used to be tidally locked, with early civilisations from both light and dark sides warring over scarce resources from the habitable twilight zone.

'The planet that's too busy to spin' is the hub of the 853rd century's all-important data network, with solar panels on the light side powering supercooled processors on the dark side.

DC One Million: Mercury has apparently been engineered to be tidally locked, just as people used to think it was.

It's also been suggested that thick cloud cover would build up on the day side of tidally locked planets, reflecting much of the sunlight and keeping the day side relatively cool. More recent computer models indicate that, assuming the planet has an atmosphere, convection currents will transfer hot air from the day side to the night side and bring cold air to the day side, alleviating the extremes somewhat. Originally it was thought that the starward side would always be a blazing hot desert and the night side freezing cold.

Over astronomical timescales, the parent body's gravity will slow the satellite's rotation until one side always faces the parent and the other always faces away.īecause of this mechanism, a planet orbiting a star in this fashion will be Always Night on one side while the other will have Endless Daytime. If the RCS is bouncing the orbit around too much, I use capslock for finer control.Į2: Another control that is oh-so-useful to learn is using to switch between ships/kerbals in physics range.Tidal locking is the result of a body (a planet around a star or a moon around a planet) being close enough to its parent that the pull of gravity on the satellite is stronger on the facing side than on the other note This is actually always the case, but it's particularly noticeable if the satellite is very close to the primary or the primary's gravitational field is very intense. After a maneuver I often fine-tune with RCS translation, to get the encounter (right down to the periapsis I want, over the equator or poles) or rendezvous I was aiming for. It's nearly impossible to manually execute a maneuver node perfectly. This stops the offset thrust from rotating the craft when you are just trying to translate, as when docking. With capslock on, they operate at reduced power, and it appears to balance them as well, if the center of thrust is offset from the center of mass.

#Kerbal space program controls locked full

With capslock off, all RCS ports are at full power.

This is actually the first time I heard capslock called 'soft mode,' I usually thought of it as 'fine control.' Edit: Ah yes, the keyboard map (Thanks calls it 'Precision Control'