u/FursonallyOffended

I got into KSP about three months ago, I have about 70 hours in, and I’m finally sending interplanetary missions! I’m trying to launch a satellite/rover combo mission to Pol, and I’ve run into a problem. Namely, how to match orbital inclinations during interplanetary transfers, both to the target planet, and its moon. Jool and Kerbin are offset very slightly, so I launch slightly south at 2.7° in order to match that inclination instead of performing a mid-course correction. This works well. However, once I arrive at Jool, I am in a highly inclined orbit that takes quite a bit of dV to flatten for a Pol intercept.

I’d like to send similar missions to all moons in the Eve, Duna, and Jool systems, but manually correcting for inclination once I get there by packing more dV seems suboptimal.

The precision required to arrive at an equatorial orbit, or even a reasonably low inclination orbit, is quite difficult over a journey of millions of kilometers, even with an ion engine (which is what I am using). What is the best way to do this?

21 year old male, four years post op, PLIF, twelve vertebrae fused to treat severe scoliosis.

Surgery itself went fine, I’ve been doing rather well in the years post-op, but I have developed quite a severe flared ribcage in the past year or so. Usually this is caused by poor posture and core strength, but I’m wondering if my PLIF had anything to do with it, or if it’s a variable to consider whilst trying to fix it.

Has anyone dealt with similar issues under these circumstances? Is this a coincidence or a consequence of surgery. It hurts a lot and is rather unsightly when unclothed, asking for advice.