GuzWaatensen

Welcome to the Pinhole Marksman Challenge! I got the idea for this challenge while participating in the Grinding the Crack Challenge. Basically this challenge is comparable in objective to the above challenge but will require a bit more marksmanship. The Objective: Download the provided .craft file of the 'pinhole', attach whatever lifting stage you like and fly it to an atmosphere-less body of your choice. Once you have placed the pinhole on the surface of the chosen body, build a second craft (or use part of the craft you delivered the pinhole with) which is entirely of you own design, launch it to the same celestial body and fly it through the pinhole without touching the ground. Sounds easy enough right? The Pinhole: The pinhole is designed to fit a 1 person command pod "comfortably", a 3 person pod (shown for size comparison) is a rather tight fit... Craft File: Pinhole.craft Easy Mode Pinhole: This pinhole was generously made available by participant Andrew Hansen, it's quite a lot larger and should be easier to hit. Craft File: Larger Pinhole.craft With Skycrane (in the picture): Larger Pinhole (with Skycrane).craft The Rules (updated): Stock Parts only. No cheats. You have to use one of the provided Pinholes, there will be separate Leaderboards. The pinhole cannot be damaged in the fly-through... Quicksaving /-loading like a Madman is ALLOWED. You have to go from orbit through the hole back to orbit, no landing at any point. You do not need to be on an orbital trajectory, however a orbital trajectory is the best way to score high. Submissions: To complete the challenge post a video of your craft passing the pinhole and emerge into orbit unharmed. Rating criteria: Your submissions will be rated by two criteria (with separate Leaderboards): Your velocity. The (game-)time between you last course correction and passing the pinhole. The reason for the second criteria is that it rewards the marksman aspect rather than you being an excellent pilot, meaning the more ballistic your approach is the better. good luck and have fun everybody! Leaderboard: Normal Mode (speed): GuzWaatensen (420,8 m/s) Normal Mode (balistic): GuzWaatensen (8 s) Easy Mode (speed): Andrew Hansen (150,6 m/s) Easy Mode (balistic): Andrew Hansen (3 s) Completed the challenge (earlier submissions first): Andrew Hansen GuzWaatensen

I was actually doing a standard moon mission when i thought about doing this challenge instead, so i quickly filmed my approach and am submitting it here, i'm not sure i conform to the Challenge rules as i've not read the OP carefully, but I think it's a cool little video regardless: Periapsis: 4718m Above Ground: no idea (a lot less) Speed: ~1470m/s

i have a vessel at 2.1 (which is still too much btw. still some fuel left) but unfortunately it doesn't really belong in this thread but rather in the forgot parachutes confession thread.... I'll post again once i've actually laded the thing....