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Weekly Challenge #48 - Dawn to Dres


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Last week was the anniversary of the Dawn spacecraft entering orbit around Ceres! To commemorate this mission, recreate it in KSP2 by sending a solar ion-powered probe to Dres!

Primary: Capture a probe into orbit around Dres with one or more solar-powered ion engines.

Secondary: Make one flyby of Duna on your way to Dres.

Jeb: Eject your probe out of Kerbin's sphere of influence with a solid booster upper stage.

Val: For extra realism, this ejection burn should be spin-stabilized and not use SAS.

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Well, I'm going to consider this one as good as complete. There was no objective for wrestling with game breaking bugs, so I can say I did all of them as far as I'm concerned even if I had to use a teleport to complete the last capture. No way was I going to wait a day real time to complete that capture burn because thrust under warp was broken. I easily had the time to complete the capture burn even being limited to 20% thrust.

It's a shame because it was otherwise a fun little challenge until the bug put a damper on the whole process. It was my first time using ion engines. I really could appreciate the massive dV they offer if I could count on them reliably working. I don't think I'll be using them again until the bug is certainly fixed.

The mission was at least useful to me. I need to upgrade my satellites to all use the long range antenna for comms. Dres was the first on the list as I hadn't left a probe behind when I last visited.

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