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Star Leech - Test Flight to Duna


Castille7

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Sector 7 Space Laboratories - Space Exploration - Star Leech

If you have been following my recent work you already know I haven't been doing much space travel in a long time. I decided it's time to get away from Kerbin and take a trip to deep space and Duna is where I decided to go for a quick craft build so I can determine what it may take to reach Eeloo in this new Version 1.0.5. In this build I only had a couple of mistakes, in the past it would have been more I'm sure. Here is what took place, the first stage went great, then rolling to a 45 Degree I did the famous somersault and recovered fairly quickly. After releasing the next stage I noticed the craft had a bad wobble and I immediately killed the thrust, the craft settled down and I was able to continue with my trajectory heading for Duna. At this point I noticed I hadn't set up the asparagus fuel style to maximize my fuel usage. Now I am coming down on Duna's surface to attempt a landing and of course I have a good habit now to use that ole F5 and the savior F9 key and sure enough I came in to hard and smashed into the surface. After a second or third try I did manage to land but I was struggling because I didn't bother setting any action groups until after this test flight. As I was falling to the surface I was frantically doing fuel transfers and shutting down the engines to get the best out of my fuel consumption. I am now fixing the Weak Point in the craft and the fuel lines while Bob is drilling for Ore on Duna. After I finish fueling on Duna I will then see how far I will be able to travel, Ike, Dres or Eeloo? not sure at this point. Also check out how little fuel I had left after landing, I barely made it.

 

 

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I was hoping it would make it to Duna but didn't know what to expect, often I wouldn't have enough fuel to orbit Duna. As for now it can't escape Duna but can travel its surface as long as Ore is available. Maybe I should have named the craft Duna Leech?.....haha

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