Continuous-thrust Ion probe experiment results

[RA3236]

Just wanted to share the results of a little experiment I did overnight.

I had a ship weighing 165.525t with about 19300m/s dv in an 100x2400km orbit around Kerbin at an angle to Kerbol of about 45 degrees prograde radial. It was an ion ship (with the Dawn engine tweakscaled to 2.5m). I pointed it prograde at periapsis and fired my engine overnight (and it still hasn't burnt out after 10 hours, BTW.) It is now on an escape trajectory out of Kerbol (and it looks like it had a minor gravity assist from the Mun)

I know, lots of meaningless words.

So tell me, have you done an experiment like this before?

[RA3236]

And the results in pictures:

http://imgur.com/a/0FYM3

 

Edited November 18, 2016 by RA3236

[Nansuchao]

I Made something similar in the past on a manned mission to Eve. In the return flight, thanks to the Interstellar Extended technologies I was able to land back at Kerbin, safely, 12 days after the take off on Eve, with an SSTO. That was amazing, for me.