Low cost Laythe Science Mission - with a twist

[vyznev]

27 minutes ago, dnbattley said:

These look great! Thanks @jinnantonix for suggesting and @vyznev for putting them together! I'll proudly add this to my profile page Do you object to my putting the words "¢ertified ¢heapskate" on/around/near it

I have no objections whatsoever.  

(I thought about including the "low budget" part of the challenge in the badge itself somehow, but couldn't figure out a good way to fit it in. But feel free to make your own versions!)

[vyznev]

...although, having said that, I just realized exactly how to do it: 

   

[dnbattley]

Brilliant! Thank you very much!

[jinnantonix]

Thanks @vyznev you are a champion.

[jinnantonix]

@dnbattley

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Do you object to my putting the words "¢ertified ¢heapskate" on/around/near it 

Well for one, I don't object, because you have truly earned that honour. 

[dnbattley]

3 hours ago, jinnantonix said:

@dnbattley

Well for one, I don't object, because you have truly earned that honour. 

Why thank you sir.

On a related note, I only just yesterday realised why, when I ran the mission, it seemed slightly harder to leave Laythe than I had designed for during my testing, as I only just noticed the slight nerfing (particularly in atmosphere) of the Spark in 1.7!

[farmerben]

I love the badge.  How does one insert it as a sig?  I've had trouble with adding badges

[jinnantonix]

@farmerben I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but this is what I did.  

1. Use snipping tool to capture a .png image, and save to png file.
2. Upload to Imgur
3. Click on Imgur image, and CTRL-C to copy URL
4. Edit signature, click Insert media, CTRL-V the URL. 

[jinnantonix]

With some tweaking, I have an entry for Leaderboard 1 at <$33k.

The key was optimising the craft for the passage from Pol to Laythe to Pol.  More fuel for the Laythe lander jet, and dropping from Laythe high orbit, meant a smaller interplanetary craft could be used, saving funds.  The passage from Minmus to Pol was very tight, my craft landed at 10m/s with nothing in the tank.

 

[Kergarin]

Sadly never found the time to complete this…
So here is just a quick teaser featuring my two favorite parts of the Mission

 

 

[jinnantonix]

Wow @Kergarin.  Not exactly low cost.  But very cool.

[Kergarin]

23 hours ago, jinnantonix said:

Wow @Kergarin.  Not exactly low cost.  But very cool.

Thanks 

The plan was to do the anti mission: an unnecessary complicated trip featuring satellites, deepsea probes dropped by planes, a fleet of boats, a base, a mining rig and tankers, an orbiting station and much more.

Sadly didn't find the time and wanted to release before this dlc makes my mechanics obsolete

[jinnantonix]

So after a lot of false starts, I finally completed my mission for Leaderboard 2.  52,865 funds. 

https://imgur.com/gallery/mTydn4m