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Given: A balloon platform 50 Km above the Venus surface, XR2 in orbit and whatever navigation tools available around.
Needed: Land the XR2 on the platform, that is get it to subsonic speed within glide range from the balloon.
The problem is a high-precision re-entry with a target high above the surface and un-selectable by tools like Aerobrake MFD (balloon=vessel, not a base).
Eye-balling the location on ABMFD's graph yields significant aiming error.
Just aiming intuitively, re-entering, noting the offset, reloading, aiming intuitively with offset in mind, re-entering, noting offset, etc considered cheating.
Any ideas?
Needed: Land the XR2 on the platform, that is get it to subsonic speed within glide range from the balloon.
The problem is a high-precision re-entry with a target high above the surface and un-selectable by tools like Aerobrake MFD (balloon=vessel, not a base).
Eye-balling the location on ABMFD's graph yields significant aiming error.
Just aiming intuitively, re-entering, noting the offset, reloading, aiming intuitively with offset in mind, re-entering, noting offset, etc considered cheating.
Any ideas?