Concurrent interplanetary missions

[Temstar]

After much procrastination I finally designed an interplanetary lander for my unmanned rover. While waiting for my manned Eve mission transfer window to open I decided to engage in a bit of robotic planetary science program, and well this is the result:

I'm sure there are other impressive tracking station screenshots out there, let's see who's got the most concurrent interplanetary missions going on.

[Cesrate]

My suggestion to devs is to add an alarm clock to remind player in order not to miss any maneuver point when executing multiple missions…

[ThatBum]

Well, there is Kerbal Alarm Clock. Does pretty much what you asked.

[magnemoe]

Now if you are real unlucky two points come up at the same time. I had an Jool and dress encounter the same day. Jool is an issue as you have to babysit the ship a lot while it comes inn, them make an course for Laythe. I modified my Dress mission path to arrive a day later.

[Brotoro]

I just spent a few hours getting five ships boosted off to Jool. Plane changes all completed. Now to do some fine targeting with Conic Draw Mode 0, and then a lot of aerobraking.

[Tw1]

The only one I seem to have taken is this:

You can sort of see all the tracks.

But I can show the results:

Bob, Danble and Erbald are on an "Extended mission" to Duna.

(I sent them a return module and rover once I concluded they didn't have enough delta V to return in the original lander.)

They are currently on the way back to the ship, after visiting the pole.

Jeb, Tomdan, and Lanbur are on Dres.

Bob, Duney, and Samford are on Moho.

These missions all have several unmanned rovers, comm satellites in orbit, and return vechiles in orbit.

The Adam probe is in orbit around Eve:

Having dropped of three of the four "Sons of Adam" rover-probes.

This is on its way to for my second tour of the Joolian moons. The "Jool Moons investigator":

Carries rover-probes for all moons, even Tylo, tested here:

My first Jool probe, whose photo I can't find ATM is only a few weeks away from Jool encounter.

Edit: Here it is, dropping its transfer burn stage:

Known as "Distant planets: Jool mission", it also has rover-probes, but they are lighter and simpler.

One of the photos it took more recently:

The Dres, Jool, and a failed Eeloo voyage all had windows very close to each other, and were all orbiting Kerbin at the same time at one point.

The return windows for Duna and Dres, a second Kerbin-Dres window, an Eve window, and a window for a third Duna mission are all fairly close, so I'll probably have the map filled with lines again, in a while.

Edited April 28, 2013 by Tw1

[Cesrate]

One of the photos it took more recently:

The Dres, Jool, and a failed Eeloo voyage all had windows very close to each other, and were all orbiting Kerbin at the same time at one point.

The return windows for Duna and Dres, a second Kerbin-Dres window, an Eve window, and a window for a third Duna mission are all fairly close, so I'll probably have the map filled with lines again, in a while.

How did this picture come out? The Grey Skybox?

[ThatBum]

How did this picture come out? The Grey Skybox?

The image seems zoomed in very far, it might be the galaxy texture close up. When using zoom with a mod or something, the engine doesn't anticipate it and scales the starbox texture.

[Crush]

I have no screenshots of it unfortunately, but one time I sent a probe carrier to Jool with one probe for each moon and I juggled them all simultaneously. It was quite challenging to do that. I constantly had to compare the time until specific maneuver nodes or rendezvous points to make sure I don't miss one while waiting for the other. And then suddenly probes on eccentric orbits had unexpected encounters with other moons changing their orbits and I had to react accordingly.

It was difficult, but very rewarding because I learned a lot about the Joolian moons.

[Tw1]

Hubbazoot's Zoom camera, on the front of the probe.

It has a zoom action group, but it's better to scroll to zoom.

It's pretty powerful. Jool wasn't even visible in the regular view.

Yet:

I wish my little telescope was that good.

(Well, it is limited by real life physics, not game physics.)

Not sure why it goes grey as you zoom to extremes. It may be a limit of the background texture.

Edited April 28, 2013 by Tw1