Visiting Eeloo with only 14km/s (modded ... a lot)

[MOARdV]

I wasn't originally planning on making Eeloo my first interplanetary trip in 1.3.1, but it was the first launch window I had when I decided to spam SCANsat probes across the solar system.

I've been playing with the Community Resource Pack, as well as trying to resurrect some old mods, so I threw together ... something.  Behold, the OLDD^TM N1 - LCA^TM Zenit-S200HE - BDB^TM Agena - Stock^TM probe SCANsat^TM?  Eeloo mission (SCANsat RADAR Extended Range Mk 3)!

All of 13,900 m/s delta-V to deliver a SCANSat radar to Eeloo.  Excessive? Yes.  Impractical? Yes.  MOARdV? Yes.

Although it is a 3.2x diameter / 6.4x orbit Sigma Dimensions configuration.

Even with a reduced configuration of only 24 nerf'd NK-33 engines (the inner 6 were not installed), I had to limit throttle to keep it to about 1.65 T/W at launch.

 

The Blok A cluster of engines pushed the super-booster well up into the atmosphere before running out of fuel and handing off to the eight NK-43 engines in Blok B.

 

Well out of the atmosphere, with the aeroshrouds gone, Blok B was discarded, leaving Blok V's four engines to finish the push into a parking orbit.

 

And, finally, Blok V fell away (with half a tank of fuel going to waste), exposing the dual RL10-4 engines that will circularize the orbit and provide the departure impulse.

 

Okay, so it's not as exciting as a lot of mission reports...