Bring Laika Home!

[LaydeeDem]

Those darn Kommies have stuck a poor doggie in an eliptical orbit around Kerbin! >

It\'s your mission to bring Laika home! You must capture Laika\'s pod, and bring it back intact. Her pod does not have a parachute. You must ensure the survival of both capsules.

Save file and mod part attached below.

http://www./?fqt22ow9ze4xwed

[mockingking]

This is probably the most interesting challenge I\'ve ever seen here

[erkha343]

got anything against communists? >

[superD]

got anything against communists? >

i suspect most people do, and anyway, it\'s just a pretend backstory for a nigh impossible retrieval mission.

seriously, that thing is tiny, no way i\'m going to be able to rendezvous with it, much less grab it. unless someone has a tool that works better than Mechjeb for getting close to things.

[mockingking]

Use MechJeb, and then use some more MechJeb. Use Time Launch to Rendezvous; that will get you within 3 kilometers of Laika. Then use the Rendezvous module, +TGT, +TGT, +TGT (and be fast about it, I suppose), then grab the dog, and get back into the Atmosphere to pop some parachutes.

Or that\'d be my theory. I might test it tomorrow.

[LaydeeDem]

If the challenge is too hard I\'ll scale the part up.

[togfox]

The KGSS Journal #2 (with credit to Kosmos-not) has an article on rendevous made easy. 8)

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=15705.0

The method can be extrapolated for any distance/orbit.