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When you first visited the Jool system, which moon was the first you travelled to?


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When you first visited the Jool system, which moon was the first you travelled to?  

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  1. 1. When you first visited the Jool system, which moon was the first you travelled to?

    • Laythe
      113
    • Vall
      21
    • Tylo
      13
    • Bop
      10
    • Pol
      8


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I had designed a probe to go to Duna, overshot it, ended up in Jool orbit and thought "Why not?" Anyway, I got a Laythe intercept, but ran out of fuel during the circularization burn (I didn't know about aerobraking at the time or about the debug menu). Needless to say, I was pretty mad, and that's the farthest I've ever gotten beyond Kerbin. From Eve to Laythe is as far as I've ever gone from .17 to now.

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my first visit to jool was a pair of probes that were destianed for duna but due to getting a sligshot coming into from ike, the first one didnt have the braking power to come to a rest in the system (even if memory serves a 5 KM high airbreak wasnt enough) so i instead boosted onto jool, (its sister was sussessful in gaining orbit...) But in both cases, a major design miscalulation give neither probe enough Dv to atually get into a stable orbit, The Dunna probe lasted about 5 orbits before being deorbited by Ike. The Jool probe lasted 4 and never got out of jools athmosphere on Pe, tranisited the three closest moons during those 4 orbits, eventualy getting a orbit ajustment from vall into Lythes seas.

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My first Jool probe was a transfer stage of my first manned Duna mission. It was oversized so much, that after I separated a command module above Kerbin's atmosphere, I could accelerate payloadless stage to Jool. But I did not have enough fuel to do large maneuvers in Jool's system. So I aerobraked first in Jool's atmosphere and then in Laythe's atmosphere and that became my first Laythe orbiter.

My first manned mission was station at 48000 km orbit. From there I went to easy Bop and Pol and to little harder Vall. And when I got more skills, eventually to Laythe and Tylo.

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My first trip to the Jool system was a very long time ago, I tried going to Laythe. Thanks to FAR, I could not go low enough to aerobrake or my ship would start tumbling and would rip itself apart. I had to use the engines, however, before I could get a Laythe encounter I ran out of fuel and got stuck in Jool orbit. After that, Jool and all of its moons were added to my "places to not visit" list.

But a few days ago, I decided to get my **** together and build a rover for Laythe. The trip was very uneventful, it was extremely easy to get an encounter. It was the descent part of the flight that got me into trouble - I decoupled my parachutes while still several kilometers above the surface, falling at a couple hundred meters per second.. Back to the drawing board. Maybe the third time's the charm..

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Laythe.

The first time I ever reached Jool it was from a far from perfect encounter and the only moon you can really land on when you're travelling at 5km/s in opposite direction from your target is the one with the atmosphere.

The first I visited without at atmosphere was Tylo with an orbiting probe (I've yet to land on Tylo :o). The first landing was on Vall with a 1-manned pod.

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I have been playing since before the planets were in the game, but I've never actually been to Jool, Eeloo, or Dres, nor have I landed on Eve or Ike. I don't know why I haven' t been. I haven't gone out to any of the other planets since about January either, just having too much fun near Kerbin, the Mun and Minmus.

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I ended up going to Tylo first due to an accidental encounter. I tried to adjust my orbit when it happened but ran out of fuel and ended up getting slingshotted out of Jool's SOI. The first one I intentionally went to was Laythe; having the opportunity to aerobrake there made it easier to get into orbit on a tight fuel budget.

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