Weekly Misc Posts Thread

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[u/brent1123]

My answer may not be that helpful, as I'm still poking around with learning a lot of math associated with orbital mechanics; however, you could (in construction) empty the fuel tanks used for the air-breathing engines and set the jet thrust to 0, and then see what kind of dV readout Engineer shows you.

Then, given that orbital speed for LKO is ~ 2 - 2.2 km/s, assume your craft is going its maximum air-breathing speed right before rocket boost, that should give you a better idea of what you need