SRB mission to Eeloo and back

[xendelaar]

  

I made a return trip to Eeloo using only Solid Fuel boosters.

For me, it was a very challenging mission!

In order to get my 0.55t payload to its destination and back..I needed a 4,300t ship. It took me many iterations and rage quits before I came up with a working vessel.

Completing the mission was very rewarding though!

I used Windows Transfer planner to set up the departure date and used a simple custom kOS script to calculate the delta v budget per stage with 10 decimals to get more accuracy.

If anybody's interested here's a 4 minute clip of my mission.

 

 

[Vanamonde]

That was a silly thing to do. Congratulations on making it work. 

[king of nowhere]

i've seen someone on youtube already did the same thing. not that it detracts anything from your achievement

[xendelaar]

On 2/25/2021 at 12:13 AM, Vanamonde said:

That was a silly thing to do. Congratulations on making it work. 

haha I guess it was a silly thing to do. thanks for watching.

5 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

i've seen someone on youtube already did the same thing. not that it detracts anything from your achievement

I bet.. after more than 9 years, most of the stuff has already been done by somebody else (and most probably better as well). I hope I didn't give you the feeling I was claiming to be the only one who has done an SRB challenge? For me, this was a ksp bucket list thing and I'm glad I succeeded.

[king of nowhere]

1 hour ago, xendelaar said:

I bet.. after more than 9 years, most of the stuff has already been done by somebody else (and most probably better as well). I hope I didn't give you the feeling I was claiming to be the only one who has done an SRB challenge? For me, this was a ksp bucket list thing and I'm glad I succeeded.

nono, don't get me wrong. it was just for information