Weekly Challenge #12 - Land On Dres!

[Ghostii_Space]

Kerbonauts!

The weekly challenge is... Dres! 

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! 

[Royalswissarmyknife]

How can I land on something that doesn't exist

[FailSpace]

7 hours ago, Royalswissarmyknife said:

How can I land on something that doesn't exist

Exactly dude, smh my head 

[PyroSA]

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...

[Klapaucius]

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...

 

[Heretic391]

On 5/13/2023 at 4:30 AM, Royalswissarmyknife said:

How can I land on something that doesn't exist

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. 

 

 

[Wiket]

Dres Challenge: https://imgur.com/a/FHZajjG

Still trying to jump the canyon(without rockets).

Update: 

 

Edited May 22, 2023 by Wiket
Made the jump.

[GalileOh-No]

Val...ish Entry

Dres ring viewing protip:

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If the ring effects do not load, reverting back to KSC -> Tracking Station -> Control Craft will force the effects to load (n=3 and entirely localized to my computer)

 

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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Edited May 16, 2023 by GalileOh-No

[Sivako Aerospace]

Primary category entry.

 

Preparing for the trip.

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Docking the lander.

 

Docking the crew and topping off hydrogen tanks.

Final configuration.

 

Traveling to Dres.

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Departing from Kerbin.

Interplanetary coast phase.

Arriving at Dres.

Capturing at Dres.

 

Activities at Dres.

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Deploying communications probe.

Undocking the lander.

Landing near the mountain range.

Planting the flag.

Exploring the rings of Dres.

Ariving back at the interplanetary ship. 

 

Returning home.

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Departing from Dres.

Ariving back at Kerbin.

Back home in low Kerbin orbit.

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

Edited May 18, 2023 by Sivako Aerospace

[Davidian1024]

[Socraticat]

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.

[Socraticat]

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:

 

Edited May 22, 2023 by Socraticat

[FailSpace]

On 5/14/2023 at 8:35 AM, 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. 

 

 

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