Phaedrus2401

Heh, well I won't be winning any awards for least parts or least fuel -- but I did manage to put a very, very large (and cool looking) probe into a solar escape trajectory. Stage 1: 4x Mainsail + Orange Fuel Tank (Boost) Stage 2: Mainsail + 2x Orange Fuel Tank (Boost) Stage 3: LV-N Atomic Rocket Engine + FL-T800 (Injection stage) Probe: 5x Ion Thrusters, 8x Xenon Gas Tanks, 4x Z-400 Batteries, 4x Thermoisotopic Generators, 8x Gigantor XL Solar Panels + Advanced SAS + antennas and instruments and junk And holy crap a lot of struts. I had major wobble and stability issues at launch. I probably went overkill a little, but it didn't cost me too much delta-V. Injection Stage: I followed the Voyager probe format, doing a slingshot around Jool, and getting very nice photos of Tylo, Vall, and especially Laythe as I went. Laythe screwed my orbit a bit, so I had to spend a lot of Xenon fuel to escape the Jool system; but I still ended up with enough left to escape the solar system. A last look back at home.