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A space race between two companies for a contract to supply propulsion systems for missions to Duna.

 

Which do you prefer when traveling beyond Kerbin's sphere of influence? Nuclear Thermal Rockets (LV-N "Nerv") or Solar Electric Propulsion ("Dawn" Ion Engines)?

Design Influences:
Constellation DRA 5.0 Mars Mission (cancelled)
Boeing's Path to Mars
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By complete coincidence the last song I listened to before seeing this was Roundtable Rival. I had a good ten second laugh when I realized what the song was.

Ha ha, that is a heck of a coincidence.

Very nice! Can you please give us the craft files? Or better, publish them in the Spacecraft exchange. Excellent work!

I had just designed these craft files in recent weeks, so the first time I used them in a full up Duna mission was for this video. While filming various parts of the missions, I discovered a handful of design defects or areas that could use some improvement. One such example is the atmospheric deceleration of the aeroshell-enclosed landers. Since the drogue chute deployment is dependent on air pressure, landing at higher elevations resulted in "less than optimal" approach speeds, and gauging when to enter atmo to land the second lander next to the first was very difficult. Instead of using drogue chutes, I refitted them with airbrakes. Airbrakes can not only be opened and closed whenever you want obviously, this allows you to dynamically increase and decrease your drag to adjust your ballistic trajectory into the approach cone for the landing site.

Bottom line, let me fix some things on these craft to make them less reliant on luck to accomplish the mission. :wink: I'll write a post-it note to send you a PM when they're done.

And thanks for the compliments guys :) This was the most ambitious and complicated video I've done.

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Yeah, it was Kerbal Inventory System. I usually don't run parts mods, just a few basic info plugins like Kerbal Flight Data, KAC, Docking Alignment. But I toyed with it a little a couple weeks ago, and it gives so much depth to EVA activities. The clamshell rover shelter next to the small science lab was built by an engineer Kerbal on site by pulling individual parts from the cargo containers. The two Hitchhiker containers I was using for habitation on each side of the horizontal habitat lander were installed using KIS as well.

This is what made me want to use it:

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Yeah, it was Kerbal Inventory System. I usually don't run parts mods, just a few basic info plugins like Kerbal Flight Data, KAC, Docking Alignment. But I toyed with it a little a couple weeks ago, and it gives so much depth to EVA activities. The clamshell rover shelter next to the small science lab was built by an engineer Kerbal on site by pulling individual parts from the cargo containers. The two Hitchhiker containers I was using for habitation on each side of the horizontal habitat lander were installed using KIS as well.

This is what made me want to use it:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/11/23F9C4E300000578-0-image-a-31_1418313195509.jpg

I loved that rover hide! Looking at it it can easily be done with stock parts, just have two of them each side of the lander and detach them on the surface! It wont increase the diameter of the lander at all.

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For those of you that wanted the craft files, I've started posting them in my designs thread. As stated above, I'm still improving some of the designs from the prototypes. So far, I've only posted the LV-N powered transfer ship (and variants) and the EV-2C crew vehicle. As I get the rest posted on KerbalX, I'll add them to my designs thread.

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almost a decade later but I remember this being a great inspiraation for me and i'm curious as to why the video is no longer available? even if the video is gone it would be nice to see the craft again because I cannot find them in the craft file catalogue and I really liked how everything fit together really creatively, especially the ion transfer vehicle looked cool.

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