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Hi Again All Here is my last try, just finished 5,850kg, 31,290cost, 19 parts. Maybe the first on the "Lightweight" scoreboard until Nefrums with his funny ion scooter or someone else does better ^^ The Album: Fly safe with Valentina

You read in my head lol !!! (maybe this is me who read in your's in fact... xD) After some testing, here is my new ship: And you are right, fairing is really more than paying the added weight ! I have to make the mission again, but at this time, in LKO with more than 3500m/s D/V on the mothership, that should be good 5,850kg, 31,290cost, 19 parts ! Fly safe with Valentina

Hi Again All Arglllll.... You just beat me Nefrums !!! Congratulations, very, very nice mission Here is my new one, with a lot of pictures, I hope i'll be on the second "lightweight" place some minutes xD Same number of parts, a little less of cost, but 268kg more than you Nefrums !!! BTW almost the same approach but the vertical takeoff You made a really well tuned ship and perfect flight !!! Not me lol xD 6,263Kg, 32,843cost, 27 parts. At least this time the two Flags are Ok Here is the Album: Fly safe with Valentina

Thank's a lot Nefrums Back to the drawingboard too lol I have a "less silly" version...

I think I have between 800 and 1000 m/s with 3000 ElectricCharges + the solar Panels, way more comfortable even if the lander is around 1Ton ^^ But I had to F5/F9 at least two or three times lol !!!

Hi Nich and congrat's for your last mission too Very nice ! From KER on the Mun: Surface TWR 1.25 at start de-orbiting, and 1.29 when landed. Hard, but not so hard if you keep an eye on the vertical speed, thank's KER Fly safe with Valentina !

Hi All Here is my "light weight" mission: 6,221Kg, 29,464 cost, 28 parts. I didn't remember that with no command pod, there is only one flag available, so I don't know if this is ok BTW I found this challenge really fun, here is the Album: Fly safe with Valentina

Hi sdj64 and thank's for getting a look to my mission Yes i had to make some clipping to fit the spaceship in the caro bay, so the tanks are really "close" together on the Laythe Lander lol ! BTW i forgot that clipping was not allowed, and i have some Oscar B fuel tanks "a lot" clipped (only about 1/4 out of the parent tank on the Laythe Lander and on the Vall Lander i forgot to activate before de-orbit as you have seen in the pictures) even if they are all externally clickable There is also a PBX-750 xenon tank a lot "compressed" in the center of the other xenon tanks ! And the most clipped parts are the PB-NUK on the satellites and between the Clamp-O-Tron JR and the Lander Can... almost invisible xD Really "more than clipping borderline"... It's up to you The rules are the rules, no problem if this mission is not accepted, i have the badge for a KSP v0.90 mission Just wanted to try in the 1.04v... Fly safe with Valentina !

Hi sdj64 and all Here is my new V1.04 mission for this new "ULTIMATE JOOL-5 CHALLENGE Continuation for KSP 1.0!": The Plan: Make a "small" ship for Valentina, of less than 40 Tons, able to do the Level 1 mission (and maybe a LEVEL 1 SUB-CHALLENGE: LOWEST MASS OPTIMIZATION), able to fit in the cargo of my new MK3 SSTO Plane, and able to go back Kerbin with a maximum reusable parts in a single mission. Add some satellites to launch in orbit of the visited planets to make more $ ^^. The Mission: It was the hardest mission i made on KSP.... low TWR is really harder to manage than i thought ! I had a really bad control for docking... should have add an "Advanced inline stab" to the big Ion Ship... No Jool aerobreaking possible for the ship, Really hard Laythe and Kerbin aerobreaking, multiple gravity assists to do to find a way to complete the mission... pfiuuuu !!! I had to change my flight plans all the time, (even if i had no real flight plans lol) and hopefully the 9 big ion fuel tanks were not too much... At the end, i had not enough D/V to go to Bop with the mother ship, so impossible to launch the Bop Satellite I made the choice to Park the Ion mother ship in Pol Orbit and to go to Bop with the little Ion ship only to be sure to bring back the mother ship to Kerbin... And... just at the time of landing back home, i had the "Complete the ultimate Jool 5 Challenge" contract from the mission control !!!??? argllllllllllllll.... lol The results: -Flags and small Science on Laythe, Vall, Tylo, Pol and Bop. -Satellites deployed on Laythe, Vall, Tylo and Pol Orbites. -More than 25 years of travel........ -8578 science points at the end. -Final cost: 824325-132492-360045=331788 $ KSP1.04, Full Stock + KER Craft File: Air Liner One + Jool Tour Crew: 1 Kerbal The Albums: Fly safe with Valentina !

Thank's a lot Ziv ! I'll add the nice Jool-5 Challenge badge to my signature Still Thank you for this wonderfull challenge and the time you spend to look at all those pictures !

Hi Right Don't know if this is ok for this challenge, but for my next Biomes Catcher mission to Eeloo, i wanted to try my new MK3 SSTO Plane as lifter... Very versatile and easy to fly, full stock + KER 36 Tons max payload (tested with the big orange tank... without pictures lol) 275893 Funds, 56 Tons without Payload, 240 Parts For this mission, the payload was 32.2 Tons in Spaceplane Hangar Cost to lift the payload at 90km: 275893-274880=1013 Funds 1013/32.2=31.46 funds/ton Here is the album: Fly safe with Jeb !

Hi All For my next Biomes Catcher mission to Eeloo, i wanted to try my new MK3 SSTO Plane as lifter... Very versatile and easy to fly, full stock + KER 36 Tons max payload (tested with the big orange tank) 275893 Funds, 56 Tons without Payload, 240 Parts For this mission, the payload was 32.2 Tons in Spaceplane Hangar Cost to lift the payload at 90km: 1013 Funds Here is the album: Fly safe with Jeb !

Thank's a lot Claw Sorry for my poor English, i mean latest, not last ! I think i'll be back soon on this cool challenge

Hi all Here is my last mission for this challenge: The Plan: Make a "small" ship full science experiments + Lab, fully reusable, to catch all biomes on Ike and Duna in a single mission. Two landings on Ike (North and South), one landing on Duna (South). Rover Ship able to sustain 20m/s or more at X4 Speed to catch nearby biomes. (Thank's to Laie for tip to unable Front brakes and unable rear motors, works very well !!!) KSP 0.90, Full Stock + KER Craft File: Duna Ike Biomes Catcher Crew: 3 Kerbals Ship Mass: 37.0 Tons Ship Parts: 198 Ship cost: 196243 SSTO Lifter Refund: 114796 End Mission Rover + Orbital Tank Refund: 75844 Final cost: 5603 All Biomes visited (8 on Ike, 5 on Duna) Total Biomes Science Points: 11968.8 (Not the max possible Science Points, one biome was already visited in a previous mission) 4 Tires exploded on Duna "Kiss Landing" xD Hopefully, Bill was able to repair... Almost Forgot to Repack Chutes before Landing on Kerbin ! Try to keep under 20m/s in down-hill at speed x4... The Album: Fly safe with Jeb !

Thank's a lot Claw

Thank's a lot for this really fun Challenge Boolybooly

No problem, I'm here to share my experiences

Hey Hey Congrat's Foxster !

Hopefully, he is really heavily-built xD - - - Updated - - - I'm sure you can ! - - - Updated - - - 2.040 Ready to takeoff with Jeb on the seat in the KER window

Hi boolybooly and all I thought that I could make a "minimalist" SSTO manned plane, here it is: KSP 0.90, stock, 26 parts and 2.0Tons (without the MK1) Control of the plane hardly recovered after rentry, but Jeb and the SAS made the Job ^^ 34 Funds for an orbit xD The album: Fly safe with Jeb !

OMG Thank's a lot Laie ! I never used those action groups... Will try that ASAP

Hi and thank's for the help Laie Didn't even thought to disable rear motors........ xD good idea ! BTW how do you disable front brakes on rovers wheels ???

Oh yes ! i'll try RCS ^^ SAS help a lot too, will also try to add more SAS... At this time, the best thing I tried is to add landing gears in front of the rover wheels to avoid flipping, and the same rear to avoid wheeling Not really nice, but very efficient ^^

Thank's a lot Himynameisjake You can "steal" everything you want lol The Struts Cube are really hard to break and ultralights xD There is a picture at 4xspeed and more than 30m/s, fine ^^ But Eve is "easy" for the rovers, not too much mountains, high gravity so the rover keeps almost always on the ground, the only problem i have with my rover is when there is a big angle between two parts of ground, I think at 4xSpeed and more than 25m/s the front wheels explode, and this is the crash... but the struts cube don't broke Another problem is when I want to stop the rover with the "B" key, on a planet with lower gravity than Eve, the Rover can flip need to find a solution for Duna highspeedstops/F5 every 10mn of driving...

Hi All I'm back with an Eve/Gilly Biomes Catcher ! Craft Name (if you’re feeling clever): Eve-Gilly Biomes Catcher Stock / Non-Stock Entry: Stock Celestial Body: Eve and Gilly Number of Biomes: 7 on Eve and 3 on Gilly (Full Biomes) Total Mission Cost (Optional): Ship = 872236, - SSTO Lifter Recovered 425526, - Ship Recovered 161905 = 284805 Final Cost. Highest Science Tier (Optional): Full Craft File (Optional): Ask if you want, but don't forget to add a manned command module to the Rover Note to myself: "The Lab can't make Crew Reports...." BTW I hope this entry will be ok if the crew report is only needed too proof the kerbals were landed at each biomes, because I have a flag on each biomes and ground eva reports, but NO crew reports on Eve.... No big problems on this mission, just a "little" hard to land the SSTO lifter... (maybe 15 times F9... lol) and only two rover crashes on two real time hours of driving at x4 speed... xD 12232 Science points from biomes Here is the album: Fly safe with Jeb !