Get To Orbit

"Orbit is sideways speed, not height. Straight up buys you a view and a return trip — the planet is patient."Get To Orbit is a score-chaser about real orbital mechanics. Every mission is a contract: an exact orbit, drawn to scale in the brief, and a tank of fuel sized to keep the flight honest. Launch, pitch over, let gravity do the turning, coast to apoapsis, and circularise — then hold the band for one full lap.

The physics is true conic sections all the way down; nothing is on rails except you, if you fly well. Ten contracts, no fillerTolerance bands that tighten until they thread a needle. Elliptical targets with alignment locks. A salvage job that starts in somebody else's orbit — "1800 up top, 580 scraping the weather." One mission flown retrograde, against every chart. An tmosphere thick as soup where heat, not gravity, is the enemy.

And a finale on a heavier world: "a summit near escape, and fuel for exactly one honest try."Scored like you mean itEvery flight is scored out of 1000 — half for accuracy (dead centre of the band, not just inside it), a third for fuel burned against a physics-derived par, the rest for getting it done without extra laps.…