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Hi Ziv and All Here is my Ultimate Jool-5 Challenge Mission ! I need to add the cool badge to my signature xD (I Made a kind of Jool 5 Mission a long time ago, but not for a challenge, without enough pictures, and i wanted to try again in carreer mode with the 0.90 KSP version) So: - KSP 0.90 version - Only mod used: Kerbal Engineer Redux - 6 Kerbals are on the mission - One launch - No refueling mission - 1 Living Quarter (Hitch-hiker's Storage) for the guys during the long journey - 6 satellites - delta-V in KER window - Some more description in the Two Imgur Albums (Jpeg) images Titles I think this mission could be OK for the JEBEDIAH'S LEVEL version 2 ? The Plan: Make a ship with MK-1 Lander full science parts for a "light" and low final cost mission, using a SSTO reuseable lifter, reuseable MK-1 lander with specific modules for Laythe and Tylo. The Mothership will be used to travel from Kerbin to Jool and back with low twr, and between each moon from Laythe to Pol. The lander will refuel and stock sciences experiments in the Mothership Lab, and the Lab will also be used to refresh the Mystery Goo and SC-9001 when needed. The Mothership will also bring a Hitch-hiker's Storage and 6 Satellites that will be launched in orbit of each Moons, to make easy money with the "Science data from space around..." missions xD Result: - Ship Price: 753796$ (with 526112$ for the reuseable SSTO Lifter) - 173.5 Tons (with the lifter, 107.3 Tons in LKO) - The only bug of the mission was the Jool Sat One that was not launched at a good orbit, so was ejected from the Jool System, maybe by Tylo gravity, to finish in a solar elliptic orbit (and of course, the next "Science data from space around..." mission was:... "Science data from space around Jool" lol xD ) - Total cost of the mission after refund of SSTO lifter and Ship landed on Kerbin: 142639$ - Total Science Points when landing Kerbin: 13061 (could be better, i made mistakes...sending datas to finish KSP missions) - A lot of stress and fun, hopefully there is F5 and F9 keys - Note to myself:"don't take pictures of the kerbals with the Flag window text opened... they are not saved xD", hopefully the Flags are on each moons to proof they all walked on the moons Here are the almost 300 pictures in two albums: Jool 5 Challenge Part 1 Jool 5 Challenge Part 2 Fly safe with Jeb !

Hi Again December 28th, 29th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. And now, the BIG SSTO MK-3 plane flight ! 20 Kerbals, 21 Tons of Fuel/Monoprop payload for KSS in the bay... Really slow to dock, the number of kerbals parts in space is high now ^^

Hi Again December 27th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Hmm Time to test my "Pocket Fun Jet Stock" ! Go South, make science, and back home

Hi All December 26th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Well, while Jeb, Bill and Bob were trying to go back home from Eeloo, the Kerbal engineer staff made a cool MK3 SSTO Here is the album !

Hi All December 24th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Didn't remember Eeloo was so far away... BUT Jeb, Bill and Bob wanted to go far away !!! After coming back to Kerbin from KSS with the SSTO plane, they took the big SSTO TurboJet lifter to launch the Rocket in LKO... and to Eeloo The two little Christmas Trees survived the trip ! There is even enough fuel to come back to Kerbin, but i'll make that tomorrow Merry Christmas everybody, was really fun to make this challenge

Hi All December 23rd, Full stock, KSP 0.90. SSTO Lifter, Fuel Tank, Monopropellant, a new big docking node and the Spacelab

Hi All December 22nd, Full stock, KSP 0.90. SSTO Plane, 6 Kerbals onboard. Hard to find my way without breaking the solars panels... For the next time: retract panels before docking xD 2 scientists, 1 engineer and 1 pilot in KSS

Hi All December 21st, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Well... 4 ? at least ? why not 68 ? ^^ I wanted to make a mini "like 2001 Space odyssee" wheel So, after SSTO lifter came back to kerbin, i launched the wheel with the same SSTO lifter, and... that was ok for the mission again

Still me December 20th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. I had my SSTO AB KSS already in stock ready to launch xD

Hi Again December 19th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Fireworks !!! (tiny lol)

Hi All December 18th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Repack chute.... OMG !!! Jeb is is not an Engineer... xD Well, hope we can land Kerbin without chute... All Science done... let's go back home Done with this light rocket ! Jeb level 4, and a lot of science points

Hi All December 17th, Full stock, KSP 0.90. Time to go Duna, with a little landing and sciences on Ike before ^^ (Using Duna aerobraking to direct Ike Orbite is really low fuel cost !) Jeb had to quickly Stop the SC9001 to take data on Ike after after decoupling !!! he was starting to run out like a wheel.... xD

Hi All December 16th, Full stock, KSP 0.90 !!! The Duna Ike Light mission is now in LKO After a looong ascent ending horizontally between 36km and 60km to 2350m/s speed using only turbojet engine, I had to finalize orbit after stage 1 separation by a 54m/s rocket last burn, so I keep max fuel for this economic mission... hoping this first 0.90 mission will be successful...

Hi All just before update ^^ December 15th, the Duna Ike Light mission is ready to launch (Less than 10 Tons, full experiments for Duna and Ike onboard...)

Hi All December 14th, Full stock, E Class Asteroid +1500Tons in Kerbin Orbit with 90km PE ^^ Didn't remember that pushing this thing was so hard... had to max slow down engine to keep control I read later somewhere on the web that PULLING those E Class is better idea than PUSHING, but my ship was already in LKO xD BTW my rocket was a "bit" oversized lol, i still have enough fuel to do a lot of things with this baby

Hi All For fun, a new Full stock, easy to fly, Tiny SSTO (less than 7Tons), with a bonus 40Kg Payload Christmas Tree for Minmus xD "Minmus Pocket SSTO MVTOL Stock.craft" (To use Rockets when Jet Engine out, select docking port control and press key 1) (After Kerbin De-Orbit Burn, don't forget to select cockpit to control the flight/kiss landing as usual ) Fly safe with Jeb !

Hi All December 13th, Full stock, NOT Tiny ship this time, Almost 4000Tons, More than 2Bil$, 573parts, Unmanned ARM E Class catcher... Now in LKO ready to protect Kerbin

Thank's a lot nicky4096 BTW, I now understand that between 2350 and 2377m/s, there is still a lot of work !!!

Still me... This challenge is fun ^^ 2352m/s with this new bird, that's better

Hi Again, again, lol December 12th, Full stock, Still the Tiny SSTO which i feel really easy to fly, and VTOL, so why not try to investigate the 2nd KSC with this ship ?

Hi Again December 11th, Full stock, 280$ final cost to 40km alt, the young kerbals are happy ^^

Hi All December 10th, Full stock, Tiny SSTO to save a little money this time, but with a Christmas Tree for Minmus xD

Hi all again The album with open resources tab ^^ BTW, I was unable to reach 2324m/s again !!?? "only" 2304m/s.... I'll have to improve that bird My first true "MachingBird" ?

Oops ! Ok no problem, i'll try do another little album with the tab opened asap

Hi All December 9th, Full stock, Hard Mode, with the OMG Rover !!! NEVER make a rover without SAS... Almost 1 Hour of "Tokyo Drift" between 5 and 10m/s max, to make the 5km and return to the MEM ^^ There IS ice on the Mun !!! And when you are in hard mode and the rover goes out of control.... Hopefully Bob put the rover back on the weels Nothing was broken so the mission could continue ! Was fun ^^