urlum expedition (wip)

[danielboro]

My first urlum mission and second mission to go out of kerbin SOI (ever, its my second save)

Mods: KCT, USI-LS,RT, kis/kas, roverdud, nerta, interstellar, OPM,KOS,KAC, and 80 more

Still at 1.1.3. until the critical mods (KCT,mkjeb,OPM) are pronounce ready.

Well, when my space program was small and hungry for funds a kerbal whit a dream Offord a nice sum (~100,000 advance and 7,000,000 after) for a promise that ill get him to see urlum`s moon.

I sent him (free of charge) to 2 space camps (tourists mission addon), and a mun fly by (I hade the room to spare).

So he's as ready as I can get him.
I got tired of seeing him in the list every time I have room left in a lunch, so I looked wen is my lunch window.

I have 90 days !!!!

The last week was spent in the VAB stopping the time flow and designing a craft.

I only started the construction. ill be happy to get any advice I can get, I still have time to modify it.

I probably have a sum wat unique play stile.

The game runs all the time. In my stok game (first one) I was doing ~1 kerbal day per real day. Thanks to KCT in this heavily moded game im doing ~4 kerbal days per real day.

Using mkjeb, KOS and KAC to manage and automate the flow of the game.

So don’t expect to get results any time soon

top part

bottom part

this is the power and drive part ready for lift off to orbit
top http://imgur.com/TgoH8I4
and bottom http://imgur.com/Ic9tDZj
 im thinking of landing the drive section on mimus for refuling

http://imgur.com/evVl2Qv

this is the LS suplay ready for lift off
http://imgur.com/cYeKi8S

and extra LS supply that will go to urlum just in case ill need more
http://imgur.com/mtkVbC

this is how the crew will go up to the ship and get back to kerbin
http://imgur.com/9GgM9LB

the crew will be 1 pilot 1 eng 1 sci and the paying turist

 

 

Edited April 10, 2017 by danielboro

[danielboro]

i moved my game to 1.2.1 and then to 1.2.2

lots of redesigning in the habitat section do to changes in USI-LS

i considered forfeiting the expedition, but then  i read the USI wiki and found that ranger in hab mode can give a hab multiplier of x5

i added 2 of them and now i plan on increasing the crew to 6 plus 1 turist

and still have inaf hub to get ther and back

http://imgur.com/INBiDAH

http://imgur.com/Ur0OUwR

 

70 days to the lunch window

 

[danielboro]

time is running out
31 days to window

hub section is in orbit whit  ranger in hab mode inflated 

drive section is on minmus refueling and getting fixed (i didnt have radiators for the nukes, adding them now)

 

Edited February 12, 2017 by danielboro

[danielboro]

14 day to window

the crew going to minmus to meet the drive section

 originally I was planning to get the drive section back to kerbin, dock to the hub section and then go to urlum.
but I Seen on YouTube someone using the fall from minmus as the first burn saving lots of fuel and time.
so I changed my plan.
the hub section will go to minmus. as will the return pods the kerbals use to go to the ship and land back on kerbin. 

 

small error 
i forgot to turn off the puff so all my mono  propellent was burned in the node to minmus. ill need to fix it in minmus orbit

the drive section is nearly full

 

 

its time for the urlum sat cluster to go

12 local com SATs to cover the moons
2 long range SATs to connecte to kerbin 
and 2 scanning SATs
the scaner SATs have all scansat scanners dmagic's imager and the polar resource scanner. 
it got an ion drive to go from moon to moon

first burn didn't go well. mj pointed at the manover node but didn't start the burn. 

wen I looked for way I found the probe core that got the job of control was upsidedown. I relodad , looked for a probe core in right direction, and gave it a kos on boot script to be the control core.but
I did the first of  3 (and a 4et for corrections) burns manually
but all the rest I gave to mj 

the transfer stage started whit 12k dv I used ~ 6k of that for the transfer. 
every 1 of the 4 sat stacks has an lv-909 whit ~500 dv

and the second PE kick

this time MJ worked

3 days to finel burn

the node was split using a kos scrips "MechVal"
https://spacedock.info/mod/961/MechVal

Edited March 25, 2017 by danielboro

[danielboro]

KER is reporting the hub section has only 900 dv.
that not inaf to get to minimus.
so I planned and at the cost of 500000 funds Russ build extra fuel to 2x the fuel in the hub section.
on docking the fuel I see no increase in dv.

running an old kos script to calculate the dv I see I have 6k dv.
wow
that's inaf to get to urlum. I don't need the drive section.
but I carry on whit the plan to dock whit the drive section in minmus orbit.

and that was very good since later I found the 6k is assuming supply's and fertilizer and mono propellant are all used as fuel small bug from the days I didn't use LS.

the transfer was far from afisant ~1500 dv. the 2 lander's are providing all the trust. they were docked in space and aren't perfectly allind

 

the drive section is full. and the crew are in minmus orbit. time to go.

the crew e-pod`s are doking whit the drive section to wait until the hub section arrives at minmus

hub section 1 day from minmus whit a better KOS dV script and most fuel in KER read tanks

stoping at minmus

and setting up a meeting

a night dock of hub and crewed drive sections

2 days to window

 

all my time, funds and building line are used for the urlum project
i didnt do any science for a long time but the hub section is fully stoked whit science things
so i finally got some sci points

 

 

times up

Edited April 10, 2017 by danielboro