[Using only stock solid boosters, I can ...]

I have a ship that used only solid fuel thrusters.

It is currently 3,100,000,000,000 meters above the sun, out of fuel, and traveling at 5771 m/s.

Solar panels are too far away to work. I can't control the drone. I can't even shut off sas.

Help.

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this is the incredible solar escape craft.

it looks like this:

when launched correctly (as specified in the description) it flies so far that according to the game it is on an escape velocity from the sun.

I still have no idea what it's appoapsis is, it goes past the line render distance and I have yet for one to reach the top of it's arc.

currently mine is at 2,000,000,000 something meters above the sun and shows no signs of slowing down significantly at a speed of 5000 m/s. (note that this is only as accurate as my memory serves me, but this thing does go to 5000 something.)

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I made a ship using no liquid engines, and mainly just solid thrusters. eventually i got this down to a science, and now one of my ships, the furthest one i sent (completely out of power due to lack of sunlight) has just reached Giga-meters (when the display at the top shows the letter g, and you have 13 place values) in altitude.

edit: screenshot:

the scary thing is that this isn't even halfway to the appoapsis yet. if i look at the map from another ship I can see where it returns.

(the green line)