teebob21

This is such a great find. The best part - while I review it and plan my next mission, it looks like I'm working! Yes!

I finally installed .22. Oh man, it was like the glory days of 0.15 for me all over again. The early progression from sub-orbital to orbital activity to a free-return Munshot was fun. This morning, I took Jeb to the Mun on the aptly named "Mun 1" rocket. Unfortunately for everyone involved, when it was time to go home, Jeb jet-packed into the capsule at 15(!) m/s and knocked over the rocket!! After debating whether to fire the engines and belly-ride the upslope out of the crater and into orbit (which would have been AWESOME)...Mission Control realized there wasn't enough fuel to get home. Don't worry, Jeb, we're coming to get you (and the SCIENCE!) Proceed with Rescue Mission! I took the original Mun lander, added drop tanks and engines to the descent stage, and added an upside down capsule as the cherry on top. My injection burn was poorly executed, so I had to do a 650 m/s correction burn in orbit to fly over the Mun 1 landing site. Rovan Kerbin was unfortunately unable to kill horizontal delta-V on landing after 15 attempts or so, so with only fumes in the tank, we aborted to orbit. Thank you ascent stage Sepratrons!! A rough circularization that consumed the rest of the fuel at AP put Rovan in a 22x29 km orbit, and a quick name change meant that Kerbin's first space station was operational. It's likely to become a permanent operation, since I haven't gotten solar panels on the tech tree yet, and I used up all the available battery sending back my crew report and EVA findings. Tomorrow, I'll go get Jeb. Maybe.

It turns out that in the real world, writing a brute-force algorithm to solve this for multiple planetary intercepts is good enough for both a baccalaureate AND a Master's thesis at Cal Poly: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=aerosp Perhaps a KSP genius can extrapolate from this method to build a multi-intercept mod.