Single Stage to Duna!

[trbinsc]

That's right, I've done it! I've created a rocket that can travel to duna in one stage. It was pretty difficult, I almost didn't have enough fuel to make my mid-course corrections, but I managed to do it!

Album: http://imgur.com/a/uJol5#0

It's pretty long, but the majority of it is EDL

Edited September 25, 2012 by trbinsc

[togfox]

Wow. No images yet but id never even contemplate that endevour. Well done!

[cocomoe1002]

I dont think so, i think you used crtl alt shift D it is easy to hide it too..... i dotn beleive you made it all the way to duna with that craft... no way ho say!

[togfox]

Well, craft file is attatched. Knock yourself out.

[spikeyhat09]

hmm... seems rather small fuel supply for an interplanetary voyage. I'm skeptical. you didn't use any fuel glitches or cheats?

If you did do it legitly, great job! you should make a video of it next time.

ps: you have about 2,000 extra unnecessary pics in that album

[trbinsc]

Nope, no exploits or cheats here. All I did was get to about a 42º phase angle between kerbin and duna, wait till sunrise, launch, and cut the throttle on intercept. After that, I did about 4 mid-course corrections to bring my periapsis inside of Duna's atmosphere. Also, I'm aware that the album is huge, I'll condense a lot of the images into a GIF later.

[Analogy]

Friggin brilliant.

[Freddman]

I'll condense a lot of the images into a GIF later.

That would be cool!

[Werwolf]

Ok, I was sceptical, but it is indeed possible. I was sloppy with my course corrections, but I *did* manage to intercept Duna with this ship, though I slammed into the surface and died due to lack of fuel. Very, very nice job, mate!

[Ghery88]

If you click next fast enough it's almost like a gif. Well done!

[Tommygun]

Great job, I may play around with this.

[EvilotionCR2]

hmm... seems rather small fuel supply for an interplanetary voyage. I'm skeptical. you didn't use any fuel glitches or cheats?

If you did do it legitly, great job! you should make a video of it next time.

ps: you have about 2,000 extra unnecessary pics in that album

Just fast press next and you have simple animation

[Szkeptik]

How do you get the tertiary purple course indicator on your map? I ever only have the yellow secondary.

[LaydeeDem]

How do you get the tertiary purple course indicator on your map? I ever only have the yellow secondary.

Open your settings.cfg file in Notepad and change PATCH_CONIC_DRAW_LIMIT to 3. You can even change it to four or five and get red and green ones on top of the blue yellow and purple ones.

[Szkeptik]

Open your settings.cfg file in Notepad and change PATCH_CONIC_DRAW_LIMIT to 3. You can even change it to four or five and get red and green ones on top of the blue yellow and purple ones.

Thanks a lot! This will be very helpful.

[trbinsc]

Alright, I made some changes to the album, which includes animations. They are pretty small though, so I might upload them to dropbox or something later.

http://imgur.com/a/Rs8Ak

[The Destroyer]

What program did you use to make it into a gif?

[Stoup]

Wow. That's... that's crazy. I can't reliably make it to other planets with ANY rockets, let alone an SSTO. Major props mate

[trbinsc]

What program did you use to make it into a gif?

I used GIMP.