It wasn't a multibody trajectory, as the Sun was the reference of my Transfer MFD, Source was my ship, and the target was Jupiter.
There is no computer assisted aid to do that manuver. As I said, I just winged it. In some cases the Transfer MFD just won't produce a trajectory that will intercept the planet your heading towards, and you have to wait months for the Earth to move to a good spot. That isn't true. If you have enough fuel, you can launch whenever you want.
My ship does. I wanted to try it from this crummy of a launch window to see if I had the statistics of the ship correct. I figured that if I ran out of fuel getting to Jupiter from there, then I would need to go back into the ship's configuration file and up the fuel efficiency number. Turns out I didn't. I made it with 6% fuel remaining.
What I did was thrust directly at the Sun. I've found that thrusting towards or away from the body your orbiting tends to shift your whole orbit, but not lose you any forward velocity. Your giving yourself a whole bunch of vertical velocity.
To visualise the planetary arangement, looking down from the top of the solar system (from Polaris star), Earth was at 9 oclock, Jupiter at 12 oclock, and everthing orbits counter-clockwise.
Because Jupiter is moving, I new I would have to aim for about 11 oclock with my orbit path. Alot of thrust towards the Sun, with some thrust a smidge behind the sun made my elipse of an orbit extend out to about 11 oclock where I wanted it. Then some retrograde thrusting to make the intercept lines overlap was all it took.
Hans.
