Challenge Wheel - Journey to Wal (OPM)

[sturmhauke]

I decided to take a spin on @kspnerd122's Challenge Wheel, and got this:

 

So here we go! Wal is a moon of Urlum, from OPM. I'm also using a bunch of other mods, including USI Life Support.

Part 1: Launch and ejection burn

Spoiler

This is "Wally", the vehicle that will take Jeb, Bill, and Bob to Wal. Val mumbled something about having better things to do. The launch stage is powered by 13 Vectors, the sustainer stage by a Rhino engine, and the interplanetary stage by a Cherenkov nuclear engine. The rover is equipped with a detachable Skycrane landing engine. Because the journey to the distant Urlum system will take over 11 years, the command module is equipped with advanced RTGs for power, large comm antennas, and Deep Freeze cryostasis pods for the crew.

 

Liftoff!

 

Nearing MECO

 

Lighting the sustainer ahead of circularization

 

In LKO

 

Raising apoapsis to prepare for ejection burn

 

Sustainer stage away, preparing to dock command module with lander/rover module

 

Performing one more apoapsis raise and then the final ejection burn

 

Verifying encounter with Wal post-burn

 

The crew enters cryostasis

 

Automated systems take over for the journey to Wal

Edited October 25, 2022 by sturmhauke

[sturmhauke]

Part 2: Interplanetary transfer and insertion burn

Spoiler

The nav computer prepares for insertion at Wal

 

Nav charts showing various planets and other bodies, before and after transit to the Urlum system

 

Approaching Urlum and Wal

 

Kerbol and the inner planets appear much smaller from this distance

 

Insertion burn, followed by burn to drop periapsis down to low Wal orbit

 

Time to defrost the crew! The alarm bell sounds suspiciously like a toaster oven...

 

Arrived in Low Wal Orbit

 

[sturmhauke]

Part 3: Landing

Spoiler

Jeb heads to the surface

 

Jeb landed on a slope, and the rover's brakes weren't strong enough to stop the whole thing from rolling downhill, so he had to detach the engine module while driving

 

Jeb: "Easy peasy!"

 

"This site shall be known as 'Jeb Flats'."

 

And so Jeb came to his final resting place.

"Wait, what? Who said that?"

Uh, sorry Jeb, this was a one-way trip. Getting back to Kerbin wasn't in the budget. Maybe next time!

"Next time! Oh, come on!"

 

[SSTO Crasher]

We must rescue him