I can get build spacecraft, get to orbit, that's fine. I can even execute more or less random burns to go places. But setting up a planned burn? I can't figure out how to do that. I can click on my spacecraft's current orbit and a multi-axis icon comes up that I don't understand, and I find no readme or FAQ to tell me what any of it means.
Please help.
As QarabinaKa said, the green ones are prograde/retrograde, you can use this to have higher or lower orbits.
The Blue ones change the eccentricity of the orbit, use this if you want a very circular orbit or something. This is very useful when you want to get an encounter with different planets without having to do a retrograde burn.
The red ones are most likely to be used to align the tilt of your orbit, mostly used for aligning your orbit with other moons or planets.
The main way I learned them was by just playing around with them. Think of it this way: the direction of the “thing” that you are pulling is the direction your craft will be burning.
The green ones are your prograde/retrograde burn. Prograde pushes you into a higher orbit, and retrograde slows you down and pushes you into a lower orbit. The red circles are for burning to change inclination. I generally haven't used the blue ones much, with the exception of fine tuning intercepts, but they do come in handy as well, like trying to push your periapsis closer to the planet without having to really slow down. As Hannah1212 said, the main ones you'll use are the green ones, and likely the red ones.
You generally only want to touch the green ones (those are prograde and retrograde). You “pull” them to change your orbit. If you have it on low sensitivity it might take a while for the orbit to change.
tap orbit line, then the +. i don’t know how you do it on pc, just try clicking it
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