Launch: POLAR I

Year 3, day 23.

Customer:

• Sean's Cannery

Mission Objectives:

1. Place satellite into polar orbit around Kerbin

Crew:

• ​None

This is the first launch into a polar orbit.

Taking Off! for the great white north.

Nominal MECO.

The payload is deployed at 70km.

The first manoeuvre is a 40.8m/s burn.

Boosting into a stable orbit.

The second manœuvre reaches the desired periapsis.

Boosting into a higher transfer orbit.

It then takes 430.4m/s to circularize the orbit.

A final 29.1m/s manoeuvre is required to reach the desired orbit.

After this burn, the satellite had less than 1 unit each of oxidizer and liquid fuel.