New Kerizons: Race to Eeloo

[Souper]

In honor of you-know-what arriving at you-know-where, i have created a celebration challenge to commemorate the space probe's historic trek by seeing who can reach Eeloo the fastest!

Note: There are actually 2 challenges: Unmanned and Manned.

Here, i lay down the rules for Unmanned:

1. No mods, except for aesthetic enhancement (TextureReplacer, EVE, HotRockets...etc.)

2. Do not cheat. If you are found to have cheated, you will be DQ'd forever and ever.

3. There are no building limitations, use as many parts as you like.

4. There is no time limit, only those who get to Eeloo faster than the rest.

5: Scoring system is person with shortest MET upon Eeloo closest approach while in its SOI.

And now the rules for Manned:

1. No mods, except for aesthetic enhancement (TextureReplacer, EVE, HotRockets...etc.)

2. Do not cheat. If you are found to have cheated, you will be DQ'd forever and ever.

3. There are no building limitations, use as many parts as you like.

4. There is no time limit, only those who get to Eeloo and back faster than the rest.

5: Scoring system is person with shortest MET upon Kerbin surface recovery.

6: Return to Kerbin is mannedatory. If you just strand a Kerb on Eeloo and leave him there, it won't count.

7: You must have a Kerbal walk on Eeloo's surface at least 1 time in the mission.

Gentlemen, start your rocket engines!

[MoeKitsune]

What about getting to Plock in Outer Planets Mod? Extra points or a new category?

[Candlelight]

Dude. you beat me to the punch!

I was planning this style of challenge.

Gonna try this today and maybe post it.

[Foxster]

Manned Eeloo and back mission in 8y, 364d, 02:48:10

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Edited July 11, 2015 by Foxster

[cantab]

No Kerbal Engineer, Precise Node, etc?

[HoloYolo]

Bro I need KER and KJR to live, can we use them?

[Souper]

No. The rules clearly say you can't have anything except for aesthetic enhancement.

[HoloYolo]

No. The rules clearly say you can't have anything except for aesthetic enhancement.

Oh boy! Man I'm gonna miss KJR.

[TJPrime]

Are we allowed to use squads official mods like the asteroid day mod?

[HoloYolo]

Are we allowed to use squads official mods like the asteroid day mod?

Nothing but aesthetics, and I don't see the use of it when your going to Eeloo anyways.

[TJPrime]

Nothing but aesthetics, and I don't see the use of it when your going to Eeloo anyways.

I like the probe core...

[cantab]

Are we allowed to use squads official mods like the asteroid day mod?

Even though that and the Kerbin Cup were developed by the game's developers, they're still regarded as mods.

[TJPrime]

I didn't give my spacecraft any fancy name. Though I think I've set a pretty good benchmark of 2 Years, 39 days 1 hour and 43 minutes. Probably the fastest spacecraft I've ever made, too.

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[Candlelight]

My entry.You HAVE to make an exception or change the rules.It should be more like: "No mods that alter gameplay." Because TWP, KAC, KER, KJR don't do that in any way, they're just practical.That is just too many restrictions, my friend.

Anyways, my glorious probe Old Horizons.Because why not? The expected distance of New Horizons flyby is approximately 6200km.So i scaled down my encounter to kerbal proportions (basically divided by 10) and i set up a approximately 620km encounter.Warning! Album pic heavy!

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Total mission time: 9y and 133d

From launch to unfortuantely escaping Kerbin's SOI.

Edited July 11, 2015 by Candlelight

[Foxster]

Here's an unmanned entry at 97d, 01:42:13...

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[Souper]

Foxster wins. also, incredibly late post.

[MacGamer04]

Here's an unmanned entry at 97d, 01:42:13...

http://imgur.com/a/Sjs7K

Dang that was fast

[ihtoit]

one does not simply point a missile up and expect to hit the target.

Computer aided navigation has been a staple of space rocket science since Day 1.

[juanml82]

alright, I could use alex moon (sp?) online calculation to calculate the maneuver node, which won't show up in screenshots.

Or I could use Mechjeb to do the exact thing, which will show up in screenshots. which one is it?

Also, does the race starts when the ship leaves the launchpad? I usually park ships in LKO a few weeks in advance of the transfer window

[juanml82]

Ok, there is just no way I'm going to beat Foxster, but here's my entry, at 336 days using these guys

Sorry, no, not you. These terriers

I did put my periapsis at 14 km, though, and screamed through Eeloo at 15.5 km/s

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[Souper]

DQ'd, no mods allowed.

[Foxster]

Ok, there is just no way I'm going to beat Foxster...

Not with that attitude you won't!

The "secret" is just to have a craft with lots and lots and lots of dV. That means nukes and, more usefully, ions...plus lots of patience for the oh so tedious burns.

97 days is quite beatable. I didn't have the best intercept possible - just got tired waiting for it. I didn't have the most dV you can pile on a craft either - not by any means. I'd like to bet someone could knock 10s of days off my last time.

[dangerouspeople1]

What about getting to Plock in Outer Planets Mod? Extra points or a new category?

Maybe Pluron? (with Sigma Mod Expansion)

[Bev7787]

How good I've got a stock game... ATTEMPTING NOW

[Lego8_bit]

well well now this is a challenge i could sink my teeth into just gotta uninstall all the mods and i should be ok i remember building a rocket for the first time with a satellite that left kerbins system in a matter of minutes and into the universe (on my first try) but little did i suspect that my ions had a fault in there system at full power but oh well im gonna attempt to see if i can do it again >

UPDATE* Whelp its a one way trip apparently i just made a kerbal satellite for Eello (aka Jeb is the satellite.....)

Edited August 13, 2015 by Lego8_bit