A long way from home

[Bluejayek]

I decided to try to see how high a velocity I could get with a stock craft. The best way to do this seems to be to dive at the sun, as you get an incredibly high velocity with a low periapsis about kerbol. However, doing this I get a velocity of merely 130,000m/s or so. Far lower then I would hope.

Hence, I decided that the way to increase it would be to first drive out to an orbit ridiculously far from kerbol, and dive in from there. So I give you the following. My orbit with the apoapsis at 65 trillion meters from kerbol, the furthest I could get before the kraken munched me, and the apoapsis still at kerbin orbit. The program claims a time of 68 years to reach apoapsis, but I fear this to be far incorrect. The time seems to cap out at a 32 bit integer value of seconds. This leaves me with my kerbals sitting a long, long way from home, so far away right now that the sun is only a dim point of light far in the distance.

This sort of mission really leaves me wanting a time warp factor of at least 1 million.

I will update with progress if I ever get to the sun dive part of the mission.

Attached is my craft file for doing this.

[Australian Sloth]

So, what\'s gonna come first, the end of time, half life ep 3 or your sundive?

[Bluejayek]

So, what\'s gonna come first, the end of time, half life ep 3 or your sundive?

I got lazy and cut it short to a ~9 year orbit.

Still about 3 hours to go until I do the sundive.

Since its 2am, that will happen tommorrow. Or later today, depending how you look at it.

[Australian Sloth]

I know the feeling.

I tried a sundive like yours but I really didn\'t have the time for it. Long story short there\'s a ship with 3 corpses somewhere. Not sure where.