User talk:Featherwinglove

Reverting of the KEO introduction

Hi, I noticed that you reverted the introduction of the KEO article back to an older state. I left a statement about it on the article's talk page, could you please explain the reason for the edit there? --dgelessus ^{(talk · contribs)} 12:05, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

Sorry about the broken promise, apparently I either didn't save the discussion page, or the save didn't take (maybe I didn't notice the "This is only a preview" before logging out or something like that.) Featherwinglove (talk) 14:08, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

Maybe you can rewrite it, as I still have no idea what was wrong with my changes. — xZise [talk] 14:31, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

"A spacecraft on this orbit will stay in the sky above a constant longitude, making it easy to track a satellite and contact to them." contains bad grammar, and the rest of the intro sounded tentative, like you either didn't understand English, didn't understand astrodynamics, or both. It didn't sound like it had been written by someone who knew what they were talking about and had actually run the numbers and flown it in the game. My next challenge is to see how close I get to KEO with my current generation of spacecraft that use nothing but RT-10s and Sepratrons for propulsion. Featherwinglove (talk) 14:58, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

Okay granted they only stay on the same longitude, when they are stationary. If not they form an eight. To fix my grammar you simply could do so, but afaik the revert where to a worse state: There was this speculation thing, Clark orbit (wtf?), nothing about the difference between synchronous/stationary. Of course that inclination change at apoapsis was correct but at least I only questioned and not deleted it. Btw I'm neither English/American nor Astrophysicist. — xZise [talk] 15:14, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

And I preferred KSO over KEO, because KEO sounded like the Kerbin-equivalent of LEO. — xZise [talk] 15:15, 27 July 2013 (CDT)

So my current plan for KEO is: Replace it with the text from User:XZise/synch (I only changed the introduction and a bit in the chapters) and then move it to stationary orbit and add a redirect from synchronous orbit to stationary orbit. That way we also cover all stationary and synchronous orbits. — xZise [talk] 15:37, 27 July 2013 (CDT)