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Weekly Challenge #12 - Land On Dres!


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Kerbonauts!

The weekly challenge is... Dres! 

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Primary: Land on Dres

Stretch: Land in one of Dres' canyons and return safely to Kerbin

Jeb: Land a rover on one side of the Dres canyon and jump the canyon. (You can use rockets to hop and cushion impact, but use wheels to gain speed)

Val: Place a satellite in orbit within the outer gap in Dres' rings

Good Luck and Happy Launching! 

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The canyon being those three 'scars' on the surface? Right?

Seems like orbiting in the ring would be easier than getting a vehicle down. Not to mention the luck I've had with vehicles...

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After next week, when life slows down a bit, I am hoping to go through all the landing challenges and catch up. But, for the moment, I thought I would post my last attempt at Dres. Does falling through it count as landing? Note my altitude...

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Val...ish Entry

Dres ring viewing protip:

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Vessels and Crew

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Transfer Stage Launch

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Crew Launch

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Rendezvous

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Dres Transfer, Transfer Stage Deorbit

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Dres Landing

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The "Jump"

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Rendezvous II

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Ring Insertion and Lander Conversion

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Eve Gravity Assist and Return to Kerbin

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Primary category entry.

 

Preparing for the trip.

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Traveling to Dres.

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Activities at Dres.

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Returning home.

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The entire mission took 18 years and 71 days to complete.

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I've been purposefully avoiding interplanetary ventures lately. I find the game so much more enjoyable around and on Kerbin for now.

However... I was inspired to go to Dres for an attempted canyon Jump! I say attempted because it was an absolute failure as a jump. I'm not as familiar with Dres. While I find it very forgiving in terms of gravity, I also severely underestimated the necessary speed required to actually get a good "Jump" on Dres. I do hope they beef up these rover wheels in the future- the cap out at like, 26m/s for me and that just seems "un-Kerbal". Give me 100m/s and a slider. I wanna go fast!

Here's a cool screenshot. I'll post a video later.

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Here's a short of the "Jump". I'd call it more of a fall. Getting speed up on Dres is rough going. Even if I could manage 26m/s with these wheels it wouldn't be enough for the kinematics to work out. I really want to see a good non-rocket powered jump....

...and the long form Challenge Video. I never got off to plant a flag, so I guess I'll have to try this one again later- hopefully with fewer bugs. This trip highlighted them all for me. Note the Black color of Dres' rings... and Dres was completely missing while I was in SOI, only showed up once I got closer (same thing happened at Duna).

Anyway, here's the vid:

 

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  On 5/14/2023 at 1:35 PM, Heretic391 said:

Lol did it disappear for you too?  the rings went dark mode for me.

From about 8 minutes in we head to Dres from the Rings. So we completed the primary challenge. 

 

 

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I think he meant it as in “it literally doesn’t exist.” As in “moon landing fake” kind of doesn’t exist.

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