At long last, the Smith 2 reached Eeloo. Seven planets, two moons, fourteen flybys, thirty-five years, and I don't know how much science. And finally, I have finished playing 0.23.5.
Yup, what Pecan said. I think one of the recent updates helped things but Kerbals still have problems climbing onto a surface at the top of a ladder. Making sure the angles between ladder segments are 30 or 45 degrees rather than the full 90 helps, then they can just climb up and over and sort of stumble off.
It does take a bit of finesse to arrive directly at Laythe (or any other Joolian moon). The approach I suggest is to make a midcourse correction with prograde/retrograde and radial components. This lets you adjust your Jool arrival time and periapsis separately, which you need to ensure a Laythe encounter in a good position. Gentlest aerobrake would be a Jool pass about tangent to Laythe's orbit and encountering Laythe on the prograde side. Incidentally, from a fuel perspective Laythe is one of the cheaper places to get back to Kerbin from. If you use jets you'll need very little fuel to make orbit, and it then takes around 1100 m/s of delta-V to get from low Laythe orbit to Kerbin.
After a 25-year mission criss-crossing the system, my pair of probes reached their penultimate destination of Jool. And for the second time, despite their routes having wildly diverged, they reached their destination at relatively similar times. Now for one the course is already set for Eeloo, its last target and completing the flyby grand tour. The other shall be sent plunging into the fires of the Sun itself.
I expect so. I've not checked but I assume SteamOS is 64-bit. You may have to edit the launch options in Steam to make it run the 64 bit ksp though, set them as %command%_64
Soooooo much timewarping. Gravity assists in the inner system are fine and dandy, but when you need to make several Jool transfer orbits to get the encounter it's gonna take a while.
Granted. You trigger nightmares in the waking at forty paces, whether you want to or not. I wish for a good Christmas Number 1 that's nothing to do with the X Factor.