1000 km/and back speed run!

[DunaManiac]

Hello kerbonauts! Here is a challenge that I made. Its called the THE 1000 km AND BACK SPEEDRUN CHALLENGE.  Basically you have to go up to the area just above 999,999 meters (1,000km to 1,010 km) and return home as fast as you can.

Rules:

No cheating, like no hyperedit, or from the Alt-F12 menu.

No mods, other than EVE type mods, or Kerbal engineer.

The version has to be above 1.0, so you probably want to have a heat shield...

The minimum height is 1000 km, the maximum height is 1,010 km.

Everything else:

You don't have to have a screen shot. Your vessel can be manned or unmanned. Your final vessel has to land intact with crew (if you have any) alive. Your time ends when your vessel lands on kerbin. Your time also includes your apogee. Finally, HAVE FUN!

My entry from 1002 km: 26:42

Edited March 28, 2017 by DunaManiac

[Gh0stReaper]

On 28/03/2017 at 11:01 PM, DunaManiac said:

No cheating, like no hyperedit, or from the Alt-F12 menu.

Are we allowed to use the cheat menu to get up there?

Also the Semi-major axis for this altitude is: 1600000m or 1600km

Edited March 31, 2017 by Gh0stReaper

[Gh0stReaper]

If we are allowed to use the cheat menu, here is my craft to do it.

Craft file here

The chute is set to 100m. Once put into orbit burn retrograde until orbit line is straight down.

Then burn surface radial-in until out of fuel. 

Decouple, arm chute and point retrograde.

1000km: 10:11

Proof: No command modules were destroyed. In the mission report

Edited March 31, 2017 by Gh0stReaper

[DoctorDavinci]

55 minutes ago, Gh0stReaper said:

If we are allowed to use the cheat menu, here is my craft to do it.

There is no 'if' as it is a flat out 'no' to using the cheat menu ... Citation below:

On 2017-03-28 at 5:01 PM, DunaManiac said:

No cheating, like no hyperedit, or from the Alt-F12 menu.

 

Edited March 31, 2017 by DoctorDavinci

[Guest]

This is a great idea. Good job

[Combatsmithen]

I don't know why he thought he could use the cheat menu to get up there, it clearly says no cheating.....

[Guest]

just finished my first try, entered the atmosphere at a nice toasty 5,514.2 meters per second... and exploded instantanioulsy

 

 

 

sorry jeb!

[Guest]

Just did it

time: 39 min 54 sec.

[rkarmark]

5 hours ago, Leftykap said:

Just did it

time: 39 min 54 sec.

Pictures??? 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, rkarmark said:

Pictures??? 

Sure,but I don't have imigur is there another way to upload them onto here?

[Ricokoster]

i finished in a good 9 minutes and 25 seconds, i will try to send my craft (in pictures) if requested 

[Ricokoster]

21 minutes ago, Ricokoster said:

i finished in a good 9 minutes and 25 seconds, i will try to send my craft (in pictures) if requested 

i could have done it faster by deploying my parachutes later though

[DunaManiac]

On 4/5/2017 at 3:17 PM, Ricokoster said:

i could have done it faster by deploying my parachutes later though

 

On 4/5/2017 at 2:55 PM, Ricokoster said:

i finished in a good 9 minutes and 25 seconds, i will try to send my craft (in pictures) if requested 

WHAT!!!! HOW DID YOU DO THAT. I NEED TO SEE PICTURES NOW!!!!!!

[Ricokoster]

On 14-4-2017 at 0:42 AM, DunaManiac said:

 

WHAT!!!! HOW DID YOU DO THAT. I NEED TO SEE PICTURES NOW!!!!!!

i'll try to find hem and send a link

[Ricokoster]

http://ricokoster.imgur.com/all/  this is my imgur account , i had to recreate the rocket because i didn't save it last time :(, this time it came in around 10 minutes and 40 seconds. the last stage (the one with 4 vector engines) is used at the 1000KM mark, you burn straight down, and then you wait. mods used were kerbal engineer. hyperedit was installed but not used.

Edited April 15, 2017 by Ricokoster
sloppy grammar

[DunaManiac]

On 4/15/2017 at 7:35 AM, Ricokoster said:

http://ricokoster.imgur.com/all/  this is my imgur account , i had to recreate the rocket because i didn't save it last time :(, this time it came in around 10 minutes and 40 seconds. the last stage (the one with 4 vector engines) is used at the 1000KM mark, you burn straight down, and then you wait. mods used were kerbal engineer. hyperedit was installed but not used.

 

Edited July 18, 2017 by DunaManiac