Workaround Industries Presents: The 16-ton Ion-less Duna Rocket (STOCK)

[The Optimist]

Ultra-minimalist designers in combination with slightly homicidal engineers bring you the M-1N1 ultra-light manned vehicle. Theoretically capable of landing on Duna, the images below are those of a little test drive to Minmus. The craft will remain there for a while as a monument to the lack of budget of our space program.

Launch: 

Cabins? Heat protection? Real men don't need those!

Featuring mini-asparagus staging. Tasty! 600 dV

Main stage active; carries enough fuel for MKO insertion. 3400 dV of fuel

 Orbital insertion almost finished, 22 dV left over in the main stage. High dV mini-stage has just separated.

-LOST IMAGE-

Minmus transfer. Nothing fishy going on here. 

3/4 through the transfer, 1600 dV remaining. We have 40 minutes to insert into Minmus orbit.

Minmus orbit achieved. Highly eccentric but good enough for our purposes.

Planning the landing on one of Minmus' salt flats.

Landing burns in progress. 1420 dV left

Seems like we aren't landing on the salt flat after all. Drat.

The ground looks deceptively close; however, we still have 1300 meters left until we crash into the ground. 

 A perfect landing! Wrong part of the planet, but still perfect!

 

[Majorjim!]

Just now, The Optimist said:

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Hey man!

 Why did you not go to Duna?

[AlextheBodacious]

14 minutes ago, Majorjim said:

Hey man!

 Why did you not go to Duna?

Phase angles and contracts?

[The Optimist]

1 hour ago, Majorjim said:

Hey man!

 Why did you not go to Duna?

I was too lazy to timewarp to the Hohmann transfer window, since Duna was on the other side of the sun when I launched.

[Majorjim!]

Just now, AlextheBodacious said:

Phase angles and contracts?

Oh I see. Nothing to stop you loading it into a sandbox save though right? Would be good to test it on Duna.

Just now, The Optimist said:

I was too lazy to timewarp to the Hohmann transfer window, since Duna was on the other side of the sun when I launched.

Whoops I thought I was replying to you, now the question mark makes sense!

Edited February 29, 2016 by Majorjim

[The Optimist]

1 minute ago, Majorjim said:

Oh I see. Nothing to stop you loading it into a sandbox save though right? Would be good to test it on Duna.

Mechjeb says it has enough TWR to land on Duna, but not enough to get back into orbit ._.

[Dr Farnsworth]

Minmus does not have salt flats, YUK.

Minmus DOES have have smooth mint ice-cream fields though, YUM.

 

Smooth baby, smooth.

[The Optimist]

4 hours ago, Dr Farnsworth said:

Minmus does not have salt flats, YUK.

Minmus DOES have have smooth mint ice-cream fields though, YUM.

 

Smooth baby, smooth.

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