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hebdomad

hebdomad

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A magical land called 0.15

And Other Dalfite... YOU ARE DA FIRST MAN ON THE MIN

[move] ??? EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEee 8) [/move]

I\'ll plan my mission for tonight then. :D

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trbinsc

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Took a lot of experimenting, F5 and F9 are very useful. Also, this was done on the 15th of May.

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Edit: This was a couple hours after the tester release, So I\'d still be trying If I just got access to it now.

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SkyRender

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The second thing I did when I loaded up 0.15 was land on Minmus.

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And I landed it old-school, too. Landing gear is for newbies. :P

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Just to confirm it is in fact Minmus.

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For an encore, I did a return trip to Kerbin. Even did a brief fly-by of the Mun.

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And I landed safe.

If you\'re wondering how the hell I managed that so perfectly time-wise, it\'s for the same reason that getting a Mun landing with your first rocket off the ground is so easy: Minmus is perfectly oriented for an intercept by default (at about 45,000,000km, in its case). The new patched conics system made it all the easier, naturally.

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Trekkin

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You know, having done this repeatedly, and with increasingly heavy landers/rovers, I\'m starting to think Minmus isn\'t all that hard to get to. It\'s a different set of challenges, on the whole, but by and large and easier one, I think, than the Mun, especially from a design perspective.

Which bodes very well for any asteroid belts we may get in the distant future. Landing on small, light things is amazingly fun.

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Artlav

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You know, having done this repeatedly, and with increasingly heavy landers/rovers, I\'m starting to think Minmus isn\'t all that hard to get to. It\'s a different set of challenges, on the whole, but by and large and easier one, I think, than the Mun, especially from a design perspective.

It takes much less fuel to get there, but some more navigation.

A Mun rocket that lands almost empty on the Mun gets to Minmus almost full.

Getting back from the Mun needs two RCS tanks with little margin of error, getting back from Minmus barely uses one.

For rules of thumb, just aim 30* ahead of it on a Hohman trajectory, then somewhere around Mun-distance away do a plane adjustment (plane change in low Kerbin orbit is damn inefficient) and timing adjustment, then you\'d hit it easily.

Landing there is a PITA - you either have to wait patiently while the ship drifts down, or thrust downwards/forget to brake.

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