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Interplanet Janet

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  1. This may be belated. WAY belated. But I can actually give a simpler guide.

    Burn fuel until your time to apoapsis is at least 15 days above a Kerbin year (426 days). Set up a maneuver node, pull the retrograde handle, and then wait until you get a Kerbin encounter. If you enter tangenial to the planet, you will not gain as much velocity if on the inbound or outbound leg of the orbit. If the closest approach is below or above the planet, pull either of the normal nodes.

    If you are heading to Dres, Jool, or Sarnus, you need to pass behind the planet; you cannot get to Urlum, Neidon, or Plock with this because it will either a) pass within the atmosphere, or b) impact the planet. One to Duna will need you to pass in front of Kerbin to slow yourself down. Not that you'd want to do that.

  2. Failure; it can't even get to the Mun, let alone Low Kerbin Orbit, because you forgot to slap on a proper rocket engine.

    I send a missile to destroy a dead/nonfunctioning spacecraft.

  3. The asteroid is being sent onto an impact course with Kerbin, or at least assisted to another impact course with Eve or Duna.

    I send a low Delta-V mission to Sarnus, using the gravity of Eve, Kerbin, Kerbin again, and Jool to get there.

  4. On 4/20/2016 at 9:16 AM, ghpstage said:

    Probably, but my uneducated gut instinct would focus on Eve due to the very low initial dV cost, short transfer time and low position in solar orbit.

    Ah, I see. Thanks!

    ...except a mission would only need to get to Jool for a gravity assist, or use a behemoth of a rocket.

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