KASDA mission log | Y108, D327 | Endgame: escaping Eve, conclusion (FINAL MISSION)

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Meanwhile:

Y63, D354 (Mokusei Maru Jool -> Kerbin)

Mission 207: Project DIVA X 2nd / Negi Maru flight 05 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 2nd mission. The ship arrives in the Urlum system, its first destination being Priax.

Y64, D213 (Negi Maru Urlum insertion)
Y64, D219 (Negi Maru Priax insertion and Urlum Rabbit 1 landing)

Kerming, Hersy, Lincy, and Gusgar landed on Priax. Urlum Rabbit 1 had a lot of propellant to spare, useful for maneuvering to a flat landing spot on the extreme terrain.

Spoiler

Approaching Priax, the smaller of the two co-orbital inner moons

Urlum Rabbit 1 undocks and deorbits

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 207: Project DIVA X 2nd / Negi Maru flight 05 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 2nd mission. The next stop in the Urlum tour is Polta, the other Trojan moon.

Y64, D220 (Negi Maru Priax -> Polta)
Y64, D222 (Negi Maru Polta insertion and Urlum Rabbit 2 landing)

Julphia, Negy, Lisliana, and Maxtina on Polta

Spoiler

The second small lander (for Tal) was moved to the back of the inline cargo bay.

Being partially refueled by WiM-16

Ejection burn from Priax

Encounter with Polta two days later

Polta orbit insertion

Urlum Rabbit 2 undocks

De-orbit burn

Other view of the landing site

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Pipcard

[KerballingSmasher]

Wow, these guys are a long way from home!

[The Minmus Derp]

I haven't checked up on this in a long time, it's going great!

 

May I humbly suggest this mod?

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1 hour ago, The Minmus Derp said:

I haven't checked up on this in a long time, it's going great!

 

May I humbly suggest this mod?

I'd rather keep it analogous to the Solar System, and I am not interested in installing more planet mods.

Edited June 15, 2020 by Pipcard

[The Minmus Derp]

Okay, that's fine

 

[Pipcard]

Mission 207: Project DIVA X 2nd / Negi Maru flight 05 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 2nd mission. Arriving at Urlum's outermost moon, Wal, and its own sub-moon, Tal.

Y64, D225 (Negi Maru Polta -> Wal)
Y64, D234 (Negi Maru Wal insertion and Urlum Rabbit 3 landing; Negi Maru Wal -> Tal)
Y64, D235 (Negi Maru Tal insertion and Urlum Rabbit 4 landing)

Camlorf, Anelle, Tiella, and Agaselle on Wal's ~20 km tall equatorial ridge

Spoiler

Polta ejection burn

Transfer trajectory

Wal insertion burn

Urlum Rabbit 3 undocks

De-orbit

A broader view of the equatorial ridge

Anline, Kaice, Erilin, and Kabel on Tal (taken on Y64, D255)

Spoiler

Burning to intercept Tal

Tal insertion

Urlum Rabbit 4 undocks

De-orbit

Just after landing

Meanwhile, WiM-16 replenishes its propellant supply with an engineer on board.

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 207: Project DIVA X 2nd / Negi Maru flight 05 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 2nd mission. The expedition starts to head home from Urlum.

Y65, D236 (Urlum Rabbit 4 leaves Tal; Negi Maru Tal -> Wal insertion)
Y65, D237 (Urlum Rabbit 3 leaves Wal; Negi Maru Wal -> Polta) (in under 6 days)
Y65, D242 (Negi Maru Polta insertion)
Y65, D243 (Urlum Rabbit 2 leaves Polta; Negi Maru Polta -> Priax)
Y65, D248 (Negi Maru Priax insertion; Urlum Rabbit 1 leaves Priax)
Y65, D249 (Negi Maru Priax escape)
Y65, D251 (Negi Maru Urlum -> Kerbin)

Y67, D17 (Negi Maru course correction)
Y70, D328 (Negi Maru estimated Kerbin insertion)

Spoiler

Urlum Rabbit 4 takes off from Tal

Transfer to Wal

Urlum Rabbit 3 from Wal

Heading for Polta on an expedited journey of less than 6 days

Urlum Rabbit 2 leaves Polta

(the moon and ship should be in shadow here)

Going back to Priax

Urlum Rabbit 1 lifts off

One last refuel before going home

Priax escape burn

Planned return trajectory - note that the Delta-v does not take into account the central fuel tanks

Actual trajectory, which will reach Kerbin in just over 5 years

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 208: WiM-17 + Amethyst (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

A mining ship and probes for Neidon and its moons. The Amethyst-a atmospheric probe descends into the atmosphere while the Amethyst-b orbiter is deployed.

Y65, D271 (WiM-17/Amethyst Neidon insertion)
Y65, D272 (Amethyst-a atmospheric descent and Amethyst-b orbiter deployment)

Orbital insertion - almost 7000 m/s

Spoiler

Approaching Neidon with Thatmo in the frame

Separation of Amethyst-a after WiM-17 de-orbit (it re-orbited soon afterwards)

Mild re-entry (again, had to temporarily disable Scatterer to prevent the black sky bug)

Thatmo and the Sun/Kerbol in the sky

Amethyst-b orbiter

 

Edited June 21, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 208: WiM-17 + Amethyst (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

A mining ship and probes for Neidon and its moons.

Y65, D273 (WiM-17/Amethyst Thatmo insertion, Amethyst-c orbiter deployment, Amethyst-d landing)

Spoiler

Transfer burn from the dark side of Neidon

Thatmo orbits retrograde compared to other moons and planets

Insertion burn

Amethyst-c deployed

Unfortunately, not a lot of good places for ore mining

Amethyst-d deployed

De-orbit burn

The farthest world with a surface and an atmosphere

 

Edited June 21, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 208: WiM-17 + Amethyst (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

A mining ship and probes for Neidon and its moons. Going from the icy moon of Thatmo to the eccentric and distant moon of Nissee.

Y65, D274 (WiM-17/Amethyst Thatmo ejection)
Y65, D286 (WiM-17/Amethyst -> Nissee)
Y66, D78 (WiM-17/Amethyst Nissee insertion, Amethyst-e orbiter deployment)
Y66, D79 (Amethyst-f landing)

Spoiler

Thatmo escape burn

A full view of the snowball

The planned trajectory would put the ascending/descending node at 180 degrees (retrograde) compared to Nissee's orbit. But since Nissee is travelling slowly during the encounter, the insertion Delta-v is not very high.

Over 200 days later (the radiators were closed, as they consumed electricity)

Insertion burn (12 seconds, so the radiators weren't needed)

Amethyst-e orbiter (found a big patch of ore deposits on one side)

Amethyst-f lander

Y66, D80 - A short hop from the original landing site. Neidon is shown as a tiny purple dot.

 

Edited June 21, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Meanwhile:

Y66, D288 (Mokusei Maru Kerbin insertion)

Mission 219: WiM-18 + Eternity (part 1, part 2)

A mining ship and probes for Plock and its moon Karen. Identical to the WiM-17 Neidon miner, it will reach Plock in 7 years.

288740 kg (launch mass), 537750 kg (full mass = 532185 kg miner + 5565 kg probes); K-3 launch vehicle

Y67, D160 (launch)
Y67, D172 (WiM-18/Eternity Kerbin -> Plock)

Y74, D235 (WiM-18/Eternity scheduled Plock insertion)

Spoiler

Launch

WiM-19 docked to the WiM-14 depot and WiM-13 Minmus miner

Planned trajectory (needed MechJeb to plot this)

Significant floating point errors

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 220: Dosei Maru

A colony ship for the Sarnus system, with extra propellant compared to the Mokusei Maru for Jool. (288,040 kg / 406,840 kg, K-3 launch vehicle)

Y67, D175 (launch)

Mission 221: Tamago Base (MIKU-34), Hokori Base (MIKU-35), Song Princess 15a/b/c + 16a/b/c

Two Mobile Interplanetary Kolonization Units (identical to the Pol and Bop bases) to land on Ovok and Hale respectively, as well as 3 communications satellites for each moon.

Y67, D195 (base launch)

Mission 222: Negi Star Mk2 flight 10

Coremone, Anbree, Mochel, Hildolin, Gilcie, Silian, Seeger, Jenphie, Lanus, Melvie, Danrine, and Johntop will become the first Sarnus system colonists.

Y67, D215 (crew launch)

Mission 223: Dosei Maru flight 01 (part 1, part 2)

Y67, D227 (Dosei Maru Kerbin -> Sarnus)

Y71, D417 (estimated Sarnus insertion)

Spoiler

Dosei Maru refueling

Modules and crew arrive

Trajectory to Sarnus

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 224: Hyozan Base (MIKU-36) + Song Princess 17a/b/c

A large Mobile Interplanetary Kolonization Unit and comsats for Vall. (83806 kg, K-3 launch vehicle)

Y68, D95 (launch)

Mission 225: Jool Rabbit 3 + WIM-19

An auxiliary lander and surface-only mining vehicle. (21564 kg + 25560 kg = 46914 kg, K-2 launch vehicle)

Y68, D115 (launch)

Mission 226: Negi Star Mk2 flight 11

Hertop, Hayti, Leala, Eileen, Jerble, Orburry, Isai, Julette, Levy, Fransei, Megree, and Adam Kerman.

Y68, D135 (crew launch)

Mission 227: Mokusei Maru flight 02

Y68, D144 (Mokusei Maru Kerbin -> Jool)
Y70, D70 (Mokusei Maru Jool insertion)
Y70, D78 (Mokusei Maru Vall insertion)
Y70, D79 (comsat network established and base landed)

Kerbin system population: 84
Duna system population: 36
Dres population: 12
Jool system population: 12 -> 24

Total space population: 156

Spoiler

Modules and crew docked to the Mokusei Maru

Leaving Kerbin

Jool insertion

Vall insertion

Comsats deployed

The main base detaches with all of its crew on board and descends to the surface

It drove southeast for several kilometers towards a nearby mountain range, then the rest of the base landed there

Refueling Jool Rabbit 3 in case a few Kerbals want to go hop somewhere a rover cannot reach

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 207: Project DIVA X 2nd / Negi Maru flight 05 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 2nd mission. 16 Kerbals return to Kerbin.

Y70, D328 (Negi Maru Kerbin insertion)
Y70, D329 (rendezvous with Negi Star Mk2 flight 04 and landing on Kerbin)

Spoiler

Rendezvous with Negi Star Mk2 flight 04, which has been waiting in orbit for 11 years

Landed several kilometers away from KSC

 

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Mission 228: Neidon Rabbit 1 + 2

Neidon Rabbit 1 is a copy of the Wal lander meant to land on Thatmo, while Neidon Rabbit 2 is the small lander to land on Nissee. Neidon Rabbit 2 is attached to a nuclear transfer stage for the trip between the orbits of Thatmo and Nissee. (34290 kg + 30120 kg = 64410 kg, K-2 launch vehicle)

Y71, D270 (launch)

Mission 229: Negi Star Mk2 flight 12

Kerming, Hersy, Lincy, Kabel, Anline, Kaice, Erilin, and Gusgar Kerman.

Y71, D290 (launch)

Mission 230: Project DIVA X 3rd / Negi Maru flight 06 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 3rd mission. The crewed mission to the farthest gas giant.

Y71, D299 (Negi Maru Kerbin -> Neidon)

Y77, D210 (Negi Maru estimated Neidon insertion)
Y77, D222 (Negi Maru estimated Thatmo insertion)

Burn lasted almost 30 minutes [I'm so glad I got Kerbal Joint Reinforcement, as I can 4x time accelerate without causing the ship to fall apart]

 

Spoiler

A MechJeb module was installed with KIS for faster interplanetary maneuver planning

Planned trajectory

In less than 6 years, these are the series of maneuvers that will put the ship in Thatmo orbit

 

Edited July 31, 2020 by Pipcard

[KerballingSmasher]

Wow. Those are some big ships. 

[Pipcard]

2 hours ago, Kerballing (Got Dunked On) said:

Wow. Those are some big ships. 

Well, it's the same ship I've been using for several Kerbin decades (and upgraded just over a decade ago)

[KerballingSmasher]

2 hours ago, Pipcard said:

Well, it's the same ship I've been using for several Kerbin decades (and upgraded just over a decade ago)

Yeah...but man I wish I could even build stuff that big!

[Pipcard]

Mission 223: Dosei Maru flight 01 (part 1, part 2)

Tamago Base lands on Ovok and Hokori Base lands on Hale.

Y71, D417 (Dosei Maru Sarnus insertion)
Y71, D419 (Dosei Maru Ovok insertion)
Y71, D423 (Ovok comsat network deployed and base landed)
Y71, D424 (Dosei Maru Ovok -> Hale)
Y72, D2 (Dosei Maru Hale insertion)
Y72, D5 (Hale comsat network deployed and base landed)

Kerbin system population: 84
Duna system population: 36
Dres population: 12
Jool system population: 24
Sarnus system population: 0 -> 12

Total space population: 168

Sarnus insertion

Tamago Base on Ovok: Coremone, Anbree, Gilcie, Silian, Lanus, and Melvie

Hokori Base on Hale: Mochel, Hildolin, Seeger, Jenphie, Danrine, and Johntop

Spoiler

Ovok insertion

Comsats deployed

Leaving Ovok

Hale insertion [again, a pain to rendezvous with as the orbit keeps drifting away if you don't time accelerate. Also, this should be in Sarnus's shadow.]

Hale comsats

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Had to redo the Hale landing because I just noticed that the Dosei Maru mysteriously disappeared.

Y72, D10 (Dosei Maru Sarnus -> Kerbin)

Edited July 3, 2020 by Pipcard

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Mission 231: WiM-20 + 21 + Waterway

A large miner to refuel vehicles in Moho orbit (with 3 nuclear lightbulb engines but 3 radial fuel tanks instead of 6), a smaller miner to refuel craft on the surface, and a tiny scanner probe. (289280 / 394280 kg)

(Why "Waterway"? JAXA named their Mercury orbiter that, and ancient Chinese/Japanese astronomers referred to Mercury as the "water star")

Y72, D120 (launch)
Y72, D127 (Kerbin -> Moho)
Y72, D289 (Moho polar insertion)
Y72, D294 (low equatorial orbit)

Moho insertion - ~200 km polar orbit

Spoiler

Refueling

Escape burn

Waterway orbiter deployed

The miner/tanker went into an elliptical orbit, did a plane change, and transferred back into a low equatorial orbit where it will wait for the base and colonists to arrive.

 

Edited July 5, 2020 by Pipcard

[The Minmus Derp]

Fantastic!

 

You know, it seems like you like naming your ships _____ Maru

"the Antidisestablishmentarianism Maru"

that was the longest word I could think of 

[KerballingSmasher]

@The Minmus Derp I think they're supposed to be Japanese...

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2 hours ago, The Minmus Derp said:

Fantastic!

 

You know, it seems like you like naming your ships _____ Maru

"the Antidisestablishmentarianism Maru"

that was the longest word I could think of 

 

52 minutes ago, Kerballing (Got Dunked On) said:

@The Minmus Derp I think they're supposed to be Japanese...

Yeah, it's a ship-naming convention. See the Japanese space tourism vehicle concept "Kankoh-maru." But many people like to think of the Kobayashi Maru "no-win scenario" from Star Trek.

Edited July 6, 2020 by Pipcard