Weekly Challenge #23

[Nerdy_Mike]

New Horizons Challenge:
Primary: Build a replica of the New Horizons, Voyager, or Pioneer extrasolar probes.
Secondary: Launch your replica on a hyperbolic trajectory. Achieve Kerbolar escape velocity!
Jeb: Your extrasolar probe must take advantage of a Jool gravity assist.
Val: After the Jool gravity assist, flyby Eeloo on your way out of the Kerbolar system.

[Tony Duhon]

The troubling part about this is really everything flying it because I am incompetent.

[rockjonn]

16 hours ago, Nerdy_Mike said:

New Horizons Challenge:
Primary: Build a replica of the New Horizons, Voyager, or Pioneer extrasolar probes.
Secondary: Launch your replica on a hyperbolic trajectory. Achieve Kerbolar escape velocity!
Jeb: Your extrasolar probe must take advantage of a Jool gravity assist.
Val: After the Jool gravity assist, flyby Eeloo on your way out of the Kerbolar system.

Wow, the New Horizons Challenge sounds like an epic journey through the Kerbolar system! Building replicas of space probes and launching them on hyperbolic trajectories is an ambitious task. Utilizing a Jool gravity assist and flying by Eeloo adds a touch of adventure and complexity. Best of luck to all the brave Kerbonauts embarking on this incredible exploration

[Chris Windle]

Yes, this wasn't that difficult of a challenge, except my VAB kept closing spontaneously.  But, I finished the New Horizons probe and designed the rocket:


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Launch went flawlessly, gravity assisted off of Jool, which sent my trajectory out of the Kerbol system, but missed the Eeloo window.   Then, I realized that I was video capturing the unused display the entire time.  So, all I managed to capture was the probe after 715 years travelling away from the system:

But, even after 715 years at 4604 m/s, if I scroll out...way out....I can finally see the Kerbol SOI:

[Astroneer08]

Watch somebody do this and when the devs add interstellar update, a planet spawns on top of it!

[Tony Duhon]

wait does it have do be a replica of the rocket or just the probe itself?

On 7/28/2023 at 10:55 AM, Nerdy_Mike said:

New Horizons Challenge:
Primary: Build a replica of the New Horizons, Voyager, or Pioneer extrasolar probes.
Secondary: Launch your replica on a hyperbolic trajectory. Achieve Kerbolar escape velocity!
Jeb: Your extrasolar probe must take advantage of a Jool gravity assist.
Val: After the Jool gravity assist, flyby Eeloo on your way out of the Kerbolar system.