ARC: Complex Satellite Network System (Stock or Mods) [HARD]

[Phenom Anon X]

I'm new to the game and have learned how to orbit and rendezvous (somewhat) efficiently.

I am at the point now that I need ideas or missions in order to feel as though I am accomplishing things in KSP. Although I've travelled to the Mun and Minmus, I have yet to land anywhere other than on Kerbin.

I'm really unsure on how or even if communications even work with a stock (base install) game. I may or may not use a mod. That will all depend on my plan of action. I have started and restarted multiple games with limited and/or catastrophic results.

Thank you for offering this objective.

Challenge Accepted :-)

[rosenkranz]

lol, i just got done doing this but it was mun rather than minmus. Though I didn't have any KSO sats.

The mission used a single launch for each network.

Kerbin NAV sat carrier (3-man pod with a commandmodule and antenna) launches into a 0 degree orbit to 1588km circular orbit.

Carrier deploys 3 NAV sat packs (each has a remote module and antenna) and holds position to maintain comms.

Packs beta and gamma burn for a transfer orbits to position themselves at a +/-120 deg phase angle to carrier and hold.

Packs alpha, beta and gamma burn for a 55 deg inclination change.

Each pack deploys 3 NAV satellites (each has a remote module, an antenna and two dishes)

Sats 2 and 3 of each group burn for transfers to position themselves +/- 120 degrees from Sat 1 in each group.

Each sat points a dish at the Mun and Minmus.

The pack modules have enough dV to deorbit themselves and the Manned Carrier has enough to make a powered landing at KSC.

The Mun Carrier follows the same pattern and has enough dV to land and return.

I'll relaunch a kerbin carrier to get some pics and edit this post with some illustrations.

[Designer225]

Since only 2 synchronous are allowed possibly per celestial body, I decided to put one synchronous satellite, then at lower-than-synchronous-orbits I planned to put the rest of the satellites with respect with each other with same distance intervals.

[rosenkranz]

Dang, minmus took over 36 days to set up it's net. 12 satellites in all to compliment the 12 at the Mun and the twelve orbiting Kerbin.

I think rather than post some 30 images here a link to the album in imgur would be better.

http://imgur.com/a/whd7I

While the carrier crew took the oportunity to land on Minmus and return, I've not actually sent the remote lander yet. I'll have to do that tomorrow and add the images to the album.

That was fun. I might stick a small kethane satellite on top of the carrier and send one of these out to Duna. Might need to add some dV to the carrier though.

[Read have Read]

This thread is 6 months old and rather trivial as evidenced by the arbitrary 'only two KSO satellites' rule and that a tutorial on how to set up a basic Remotetech network - which would meet the requirements of the Challenge - is on the Wiki. This may have been more difficult back at the time of posting.

Now a more interesting Challenge would be to provide antenna coverage to every moon in the Jool system or something to that effect. Still hard to score however.