Mir Ice Excavation Project

[CleverWalrus]

I have to say that i spent a LOT of time for making this work modifying all the required parts, sadly sometimes you think the craft is fine and then suddendly bad things happen during flight, finally i managed to reach the main mission goal!

Assumption:

Automated probes have found a large amount of unknown compounds under the 'icy lakes' of Minmus, the worth of this 'new' material that is not available on earth driven the space agency to build a spacecraft capable of landing on the small moon, retrieving a large quantity of the material and return it safely to Kerbin.

PS: the 'unknown' material found in the icy lakes of Minmus is used for making amazing ice-creams.

Vessel Specifications:

- Mir Replica

- Zoxygene mod for crew breathing

- Energy solar power using filters for recharing zo2

- Soyuz ready for escaping or delivering cargo

- High powered Laser Beam for clearing debries and hazards

- Radar mapping tool

- Mass spectrometer

- Bottom hatch for Minmus walks

- Dual purpose exavator for extracting ice (and making ZO2 out of it)

Launcher Specifications:

- 4x Angara 8 meters liquid tanks + liquid engines

- Secret Soviet gravity nullifier for reaching apoapsis

Mission Plan:

- Launch from kerbin

- 250km Circular Kerbin Orbit

- Insertion burn to Minmus

- Correction mid-course burn

- 250km Circular Minmus Orbit

- Deep-Scan of the icy-lakes with mass spectrometer

- Landing on the best spot

- 15 Kerbin days of extraction - In Progress

- Launch from Minmus

- 250km Circular Minmus Orbit

- Injection burn to Kerbin

- Correction mid-course burn

- 250km Circular Kerbin Orbit

- The Soyuz is loaded with the material

- Undocking of the Soyuz

- The Soyuz land in sea a few km east of KSC

- A new Soyuz is launched and dock with Mir

- The mission start over

Photos:

Launch!

Kerbin Orbit

Landing

Minmus Surface

Minmus Surface with Kerbin and Mun on Background

Craft File:

Since it\'s 'heavy modded' for filling all purposes i will prepare a 'basic' mir + soyuz craft file tomorrow using only basic components of Kosmos Spacecraft (starbase and angara) and Noyuz

[KAO]

can you list the mods used?

specifically the 'gravity nulifier' and the mass spectrometer

[TheCardinal]

Please post the non-simplified version as well.

[madspy]

I would like to know what mods are used also. Could you supply a list?

[hkdylan1]

Looks great, can\'t wait for the .craft file!

[opticalshadow]

its looks great, but man that is some balencing act, the whole thing looks like a catastrphe waiting to happen

[Tim_Barrett]

You have no idea how much I want to just drive a rover into that thing.