The Diving Into the Space Age Challenge (This might be crazy)

[DrBurst]

This is crazy, this might not be possible. But I challenge the community to provide all the modern conveniences and infrastructure a space age society should have in only 1 launch. the least number of launches.

You will need to bring up and deploy in their right place

- 1 GPS Network, all 18 sats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS#Space_segment

- 8 Sats for 8 clients (listed Below) and put them in the correct orbit to achieve their goal.

-Design and deploy a sat network to provide radio contact to the fair side of the moon. I should be able to 'connect the dots' between kerbin, each node in your deep space network and the far side of the moon.

-(New) Design and deploy a sat network to provide constant radio contact to minimus

-Return your crew alive

The Broke Space Brokerage has provided me with this list of clients

Clients

-The Organization for High Quality Ice Water wants a sat to monitor the north pole\'s ice

-Kerbin International University wants a Space Telescope in LEO

-The Bagel News Networks wants a Sat in GEO over the Space Center to capture stunning pictures

-The Society for Awesome Tans wants a Sat in a Heliocentric orbit to monitor the sun.

-<Retracted> wants a Sat in Sun-synchronous orbit

-2 Lovers wants a sat in a Molniya orbit

-The Paranoia Group wants a sat in GEO over Kerbal Space Center 2. They told me that they wanted you to know 'They are up to no good'

-Hardcore Mode Only: Kooble Maps wants to map kerbin. The camera system will not work at speeds over 500 m/s relative to the surface. You are free to design whatever will achieve this: plane, boat, manned or unmanned sat. They can only fund 4 missions.

You are free to design the sats however you want, but they must include some form of station keeping and a SAS unit.

Edit: Hardcore Mode: Failed Missions count, all living crews of failed missions must be rescued (landed next to or orbited near)

This might be crazy, but if someone pulls this off they will be the king/queen of KSP.

Leader Board:

[Rascal Nag]

I don\'t think this is crazy. In fact, this is honestly one of the best challenges I\'ve seen. Should certainly be possible.

I actually tried to help out a bit: GPS satellites are about 22000 km up. The ratio of this to the average distance between Earth and the Moon is .0573. Multiply this by 11400km (distance from Kerbin to the Mun), and you get 653.22 km. Maybe that could be the height to achieve for our GPS satellites?

Edit: Wait. I just saw it was only to be done in one launch. Now THAT is difficult.

[DrBurst]

Maybe the challenge could be to do it in the least number of launches? Maybe that would be more reasonable.

[Kryten]

I don\'t think this is crazy. In fact, this is honestly one of the best challenges I\'ve seen. Should certainly be possible.

Except the sun-synchronous satellite. That\'s not currently possible.

[DrBurst]

Except the sun-synchronous satellite. That\'s not currently possible.

oooo, that sucks. :\'(

What about these orbits:

Tundra orbit

Mun Orbit (Same Orbit of the Mun)

[togfox]

-Hardcore Mode Only: Kooble Maps wants to map kerbin. The camera system will not work at speeds over 500 m/s relative to the surface. You are free to design whatever will achieve this: plane, boat, manned or unmanned sat. They can only fund 4 missions.

You could change that to say the Kerbin Keographic Society (google this forum) needs a Kerbin satellite at 72,000 m in a polar circular orbit to map terrain (pretend scenario).

Someone should also manage a persistence file just for this challenge. It would run over a week or two I guess. Someone would post the persistence file here. Anyone can d/l the persistence file, complete one of the above missions, and repost the persistence file for someone else to complete. This is much more complicated than the initial challenge but it would be fun working in a co-operative way like this. Missions with a purpose and shared with others.

[Rascal Nag]

Except the sun-synchronous satellite. That\'s not currently possible.

Why is the sun-synchronous orbit not possible? What\'s keeping us from finding out how many degrees our orbit needs to rotate per Kerbin day, then just making an orbit to match that? Is Kerbin too spherical? Venus has that problem.

[Kryten]

Is Kerbin too spherical?

I\'m almost certain that Kerbin\'s gravity well is perfectly spherical.

[DrBurst]

hmmm, ok. I\'m going to try an do it to see if it is possible. Thanks for your input, it\'s a lot better already.

[DrBurst]

You could change that to say the Kerbin Keographic Society (google this forum) needs a Kerbin satellite at 72,000 m in a polar circular orbit to map terrain (pretend scenario).

Someone should also manage a persistence file just for this challenge. It would run over a week or two I guess. Someone would post the persistence file here. Anyone can d/l the persistence file, complete one of the above missions, and repost the persistence file for someone else to complete. This is much more complicated than the initial challenge but it would be fun working in a co-operative way like this. Missions with a purpose and shared with others.

If they don\'t mind sure.

It\'s a good idea, I\'ll have to think about it. Lots of man hours are needed to pull that off.