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I finally got my mission to Duna ready and out of orbit last night. I starting things off with a Mün slingshot, which just happened to be about 84km from my first Mün landing site. Melbald and Bob seem a little worried about the altitude while Jebediah looks rather excited:

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Kerbol, Kerbin, and the Mün lined up rather nicely afterwards. Looking at my velocity before Mün intercept and after Mün escape, I got about 225m/s for free:

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I finally got my mission to Duna ready and out of orbit last night. I starting things off with a Mün slingshot, which just happened to be about 84km from my first Mün landing site. Melbald and Bob seem a little worried about the altitude while Jebediah looks rather excited:

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Kerbol, Kerbin, and the Mün lined up rather nicely afterwards. Looking at my velocity before Mün intercept and after Mün escape, I got about 225m/s for free:

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Mun slingshots actually expend more Delta-v. It's better go directly to Duna.

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Mun slingshots actually expend more Delta-v. It's better go directly to Duna.

I was able to get out of Kerbin's influence with about two burns that totaled about 880ish m/s (I have the exact numbers at home) after starting out in a 118km orbit ... the delta-v map I'm looking at shows 950m/s starting from an 80km orbit. Not a good comparison there, but I also looked at my orbital velocity right before entering Mun's influence and right after Mun escape and there was about a 225m/s increase ... I was assuming that I sped up by 225m/s. Am I interpreting that wrong? Or are you saying the slingshot is going to affect my orbit around Kerbol, which will then take more delta-v to intercept Duna? (my plan is to get out of Kerbin's influence before setting a node to intercept Duna). Incidentally, after passing behind the Mun, it looks like I'm not going to need any more delta-v to get out of Kerbin's orbit.

I'm new at this, orbital mechanics are still somewhat mysterious to me, and I'm just curious why a Mun slingshot would expend more Delta-V than a direct route. Thanks! :)

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I built this Duna lander before I decided to delete my save file. The descent would have been powered by the third stage of a Proton. Almost all hope was lost when I found out that the fuel couldn't flow to the transfer engines, I was even about to send up a probe with two KAS bays on both sides. A kerbal would fly out and connect the tank and the engine block with the KAS probe that I would send.

made a helicopter, stuck the landing

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and on a building, it handles quite well

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I made a pretty spacedock! I made it by sending up a really gross ramshackle spacedock, I filled it up, then launched the good spacedock from the bad spacedock and de-orbited it.

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Also I went back to the dark ages; Space is dark again! Now with 85% less RAM-overloading!

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oh. my. god. what. have. i. built.

This thing just shrugged off a 2.5 ton missile going 200 m/s. It's double armored (legitimately, the armor is 1.5m apart). And most important, it carries 16 Minimissiles and 2 shipkillers.

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MADEE or Munar Atmosphere And Dust Environment Explorer. I actually built it yesterday, but forgot to post it here. :P

Cruising to the Mun:

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MADEE in orbit around the Mun (KSC discovered that the Mun has no atmosphere ATM. yay!):

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After a couple of minutes months of hard work and continuous science work, it was deorbited:

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Heck, that was fast. Travelling a couple of meters above the surface at ~550m/s!:

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The crash was mostly horizontal, so many of the solar panels survived the first impact:

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Lots of explosions came after that. Sadly, I forgot to take pictures. :(

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MADEE or Munar Atmosphere And Dust Environment Explorer. I actually built it yesterday, but forgot to post it here. :P

Cruising to the Mun:

XaS9oWz.jpg

MADEE in orbit around the Mun (KSC discovered that the Mun has no atmosphere ATM. yay!):

tmRsB5P.jpg

After a couple of minutes months of hard work and continuous science work, it was deorbited:

deqdlW3.png

Heck, that was fast. Travelling a couple of meters above the surface at ~550m/s!:

XSukyTB.jpg

The crash was mostly horizontal, so many of the solar panels survived the first impact:

cICMW4K.jpg

Lots of explosions came after that. Sadly, I forgot to take pictures. :(

Haha, after watching the launch last night, that's pretty awesome.

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Haha, after watching the launch last night, that's pretty awesome.

Thanks!:)

Actually, the solar panel in focus in the last pic bounced off the ground a couple of times. The "Main" an planned crash ocurred on the daylight, but that one managed to get halfway through the night side before exploding. :P

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