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

[Pipcard]

Mission 261: Kinsei Maru + Tsubu Base (MIKU-43) + Song Princess 23a/b/c + 24a/b/c

Eve system colony ship, Gilly base, and comsats for both bodies. Since the first interplanetary crewed missions, KASDA has neglected settling Gilly in favor of Duna and the planets and moons further beyond, as well as Moho. But finally, Kerbals will live on Eve's moon. (97794 kg launch mass, K-3 launch vehicle)

Mission 262:  Negi Star Mk2 flight 20

Dundas, Sidrien, Jansan, Tamre, Harul, and Leegee Kerman.

Mission 263: Kinsei Maru flight 01

The last time Kerbals landed on Gilly was on Y20, D180.

Y90, D5 (base launch)
Y90, D25 (crew launch)
Y90, D36 (Kinsei Maru Kerbin -> Eve)
Y90, D243 (Kinsei Maru Eve insertion)
Y90, D247 (Eve comsats deployed, Kinsei Maru transfer to Gilly)
Y90, D254 (Kinsei Maru Gilly insertion)
Y90, D257 (Gilly comsats deployed and base landed)

Moho population: 12
Gilly population: 0 -> 6
Kerbin system population: 84
Duna system population: 36
Dres population: 12
Jool system population: 60
Sarnus system population: 24

Total space population: 234

Kinsei Maru after releasing three comsats over Eve

Tsubu Base on Gilly

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Single launch of the transfer ship and the base

Crew docked

Eve transfer burn

Eve insertion

Eve comsat network, which will support the first crewed landing there

After a plane change, transferring to Gilly

Gilly insertion

Comsats

Tsubu Base undocks

Passing over the landing site of the first crewed interplanetary mission

 

Edited August 10, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 259: Dosei Maru flight 03 (part 1, part 2)

Landing Kenzan Base, Sarnus Rabbit 4, and WiM-25 on Slate.

Y92, D294 (Dosei Maru Sarnus insertion)
Y92, D301 (Dosei Maru Slate insertion)
Y92, D302 (comsats deployed and base landed)

Moho population: 12
Gilly population: 6
Kerbin system population: 84
Duna system population: 36
Dres population: 12
Jool system population: 60
Sarnus system population: 24 -> 36

Total space population: 246

Dosei Maru approaching Slate

Kenzan Base on Slate

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Sarnus insertion

Slate insertion

Song Princess 22 comsats

Undocking Kenzan Base after moving to a low orbit (31 km)

De-orbit and landing

Sarnus Rabbit 4 and WiM-25 de-orbit

Refueling

 

Edited August 10, 2020 by Pipcard

[Space Nerd]

Wait, I found a theme in the names of the colonization ships!

Suisei=Mercury

Kinsei=Venus

Mokusei=Jupiter

Dosei=Saturn

(In Japanese of course)

Edited August 10, 2020 by Space Nerd

[KerballingSmasher]

  On 8/10/2020 at 5:53 AM, Space Nerd said:

Wait, I found a theme in the names of the colonization ships!

Suisei=Mercury

Kinsei=Venus

Mokusei=Jupiter

Dosei=Saturn

(In Japanese of course)

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Ohhhh... Clever, @Pipcard!

[Pipcard]

Mission 254: Project DIVA X 4th / Negi Maru flight 07 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 4th mission. Arriving and landing at Plock.

Y95, D402-403 (Negi Maru estimated Plock insertion)
Y95, D405 (Plock Rabbit 1 landing)

Negi Maru Plock insertion

Correy, Tanbeth, Dilbur, and Frozon on Plock (not in order)

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The burn started this far away

Initial elliptical orbit, a small plane change was made to align with Karen.

Entering low orbit

Plock Rabbit 1 undocks

Deorbiting

Another view

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 254: Project DIVA X 4th / Negi Maru flight 07 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 4th mission. Transfer to Plock's moon Karen.

Y95, D405 (Negi Maru Plock -> Karen)
Y95, D406 (Negi Maru Karen insertion)
Y95, D407 (Plock Rabbit 2 landing and Negi Maru refueling by WiM-18)

Negi Maru in Karen's SOI

Karen, Madula, Debina, and Valette on Karen (right to left)

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Transfer burn as Karen appears on the horizon

Karen insertion

Plock Rabbit 2 departs the cargo bay

Deorbit

The landing site was also near a crater

Karen standing on the rim

The WiM-18 miner lifts off to refuel the Negi Maru

 

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 254: Project DIVA X 4th / Negi Maru flight 07 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 4th mission. Starting the return from Plock to Kerbin.

Y96, D408 (Plock Rabbit 2 liftoff from Karen and docking to Negi Maru; Negi Maru Karen -> Plock)
Y96, D409 (Negi Maru low Plock orbit; Plock Rabbit 1 liftoff and docking)
Y96, D411 (Negi Maru Plock -> Kerbin)

Y105, D401 (Negi Maru significant course correction)
Y107, D79 (Negi Maru Kerbin insertion)

The burn ended this far away

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Plock Rabbit 2 takes off from Karen to dock with the Negi Maru

Transferring from Karen back to Plock

(~75 km orbit)

Plock Rabbit 1 lifts off (I accidentally deleted the docking image)

After moving to a 200 km orbit and waiting until Karen moved out of the way, the Negi Maru started the transfer burn back to Kerbin

After a couple of corrections, the ship will return in Year 107.

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Pipcard

[Rocket Witch]

  On 8/10/2020 at 5:42 AM, Pipcard said:

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What mod are those wide crew cabins from?

[Pipcard]

  On 8/15/2020 at 3:27 AM, Rocket Witch said:

What mod are those wide crew cabins from?

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Taurus HCV

Also, I now have exact dates for several crewed landings (I never checked the flags in the tracking station before):

Y2, D268 - First crewed Mun Landing (Kujita-6, Mission 25)
Y2, D299 - First crewed Minmus landing (Kujita-7, Mission 26)
Y19, D77 - Futurebase Minmus established (Moon Rabbit 1, Mission 59)
Y19, D83 - Futurebase Mun established (Moon Rabbit 2, Mission 62)

 

Edited August 15, 2020 by Pipcard

[KerballingSmasher]

  On 8/15/2020 at 3:42 AM, Pipcard said:

I never checked the flags in the tracking station before

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Wait, how have you not done that before?!?

[Pipcard]

  On 8/15/2020 at 2:33 PM, KerballingSmasher said:

Wait, how have you not done that before?!?

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They were disabled for a long time (because I didn't want the tracking station list being cluttered). I only noticed that they had dates now.

[KerballingSmasher]

  On 8/15/2020 at 5:27 PM, Pipcard said:

because I didn't want the tracking station list being cluttered.

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That's valid. How many flags have you planted?

[Pipcard]

  On 8/17/2020 at 6:28 PM, KerballingSmasher said:

That's valid. How many flags have you planted?

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45 flags (including flags planted at bases). There are still more spacecraft, and I deleted some of the older ones.

Currently there are 70 probes (mostly relay satellites for self-roleplay, as this isn't 1.2), 8 rovers (mostly miners), 18 landers, 18 ships (some of which may be landers), 3 stations (1 is retired and I haven't bothered to de-orbit it).

 

Edited August 19, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 264: Ryokuun Base (MIKU-44) + Song Princess 25a/b/c

Tekto mobile base (and comsats); no heat shield was necessary as the atmosphere is very thick. (52817 kg, K-3 launch vehicle)

Mission 265: WiM-27 + Sarnus Rabbit 5 + Temporary Docking Adapter

Tekto miner and surface-to-orbit shuttle, and another 2.5-to-1.25 m adapter. (29500 kg, K-2 launch vehicle)

Mission 266: Negi Star Mk2 flight 21

Julphia, Mike, Adbart, Tiree, Lisliana, Katchel, Johngard, Sicie, Thomwell, Shelley, Anbella, and Stelbe Kerman. A few are veterans of the first Sarnus expedition. (K-1b launch vehicle)

Mission 267: Dosei Maru flight 04

Y97, D220 (base launch)
Y97, D239 (miner/rabbit launch)
Y97, D260 (crew launch)
Y97, D271 (Dosei Maru Kerbin -> Sarnus)   
Y102, D176 (Dosei Maru Tekto insertion)
Y102, D177 (comsats deployed)
Y102, D185 (base landed)

Moho population: 12
Gilly population: 6
Kerbin system population: 84
Duna system population: 36
Dres population: 12
Jool system population: 60
Sarnus system population: 36 -> 48

Total space population: 258

Docked in Low Kerbin Orbit

Ryokuun Base on Tekto

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Trans-Sarnus injection

Flying by Sarnus to a direct encounter with Tekto

Song Princess 25 network

Moving to low Tekto orbit

Landing Sarnus Rabbit 5 and WiM-27 near the first crewed landing site (over 50 years ago), as it is relatively flat, near the equator, and has ore deposits. The ship had to wait a few days for the site to come into daylight.

(this was about 10 km away)

Mining operations

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 254: Project DIVA X 4th / Negi Maru flight 07 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

After over 20 years, the return from furthest body in the Kerbol system.

Y107, D79 (Negi Maru Kerbin insertion and crew landing)

The next mission (to Eve's surface and back) will be the final mission in this series.

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Meeting with Negi Star Mk2 18

Night landing

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Pipcard

[KerballingSmasher]

Aww, I'm gonna be sad to see this go. What's next after the Eve mission?

[Pipcard]

  On 8/24/2020 at 1:07 PM, KerballingSmasher said:

Aww, I'm gonna be sad to see this go. What's next after the Eve mission?

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I am planning to restart HASDA/the Hatsunese space program.

Edited August 24, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 268: Eve Rabbit 1

A single-person vehicle designed to land on Eve and return to orbit. (113007 kg, K-3 launch vehicle)

Mission 269: Negi Star Mk2 flight 22

Camlorf Kerman, who landed on Slate (Sarnus's largest moon) in the past, will become the first Kerbal on Eve. Joayne, Megcee, Jenfrey, Megelyn, Orfurt, Patgan, Algy, and Gerlorf Kerman will go along for the ride to study the planet from a low orbit. (K-1b launch vehicle)

Mission 270: Project DIVA X 5th / Negi Maru flight 08 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 5th mission. The final mission of the Negi Maru (and this series), to accomplish the hardest task of any Kerbal space agency: putting a Kerbal on Eve and not stranding them there. We're in the endgame now.

(Yes, Eve is Thanos Planet.)

Y107, D230 (rabbit launch)
Y107, D250 (crew launch)
Y107, D263 (Negi Maru Kerbin -> Eve)

Y107, D421 (Negi Maru estimated Eve insertion)

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Launch of Eve Rabbit 1 on a K-3. A dedicated Eve flag was made with the planet being more prominent than the Gilly version.

Launch of the crew

Everything docked

Transfer orbit

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Pipcard

[Space Nerd]

OMG it's happening!

[Pipcard]

Mission 270: Project DIVA X 5th / Negi Maru flight 08 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 5th mission. Arriving at and landing on Eve.

Y107, D421 (Negi Maru Eve insertion)
Y107, D422 (Eve Rabbit 1 landing)

(note: temporarily removed Stock Visual Enhancements, leaving Environmental Visual Enhancements and Scatterer, as Eve's sky was pitch black otherwise)

Camlorf Kerman on the surface of Eve, feeling 1.7 times as heavy as he does on Kerbin (808 m altitude)

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Combined orbital insertion maneuver and plane change at over 9000 km

Lowering to a ~145 km orbit over three burns

Camlorf makes an EVA to the lander's command pod

De-orbit burn using a braking stage

Atmospheric entry, stabilized by two inflatable heat shields

Once the speed dropped to a low enough level, the upper heat shield detached, parachutes were deployed, then the lower shield detached.

With the parachutes and Eve's thick atmosphere, descent was around 14 m/s. Five vector engines fired at the last few moments to slow to a safe landing speed.

Camlorf climbing down the ladder

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Pipcard

[KerballingSmasher]

Man... this is it. One. Last. Report.

[Pipcard]

Mission 270: Project DIVA X 5th / Negi Maru flight 08 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 5th mission. Returning from the very deep gravity well that is Eve's surface.

Y107, D426 (Eve Rabbit 1 liftoff)

Soundtrack:

Liftoff on the last day of the year

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Camlorf waited a full Eve day (3 Kerbin days + 4 hours =  22 hours) before launching

Detaching science payload

Jettisoning landing legs

The four liquid rocket boosters used asparagus staging, and were meant to give the initial high thrust needed in the thick lower atmosphere.

Once the second pair of boosters had detached, the main core stage initially did not have a high enough thrust-to-weight ratio.

But as propellant was burned and the vehicle got higher, the TWR would increase such that throttling down was necessary to prevent overheating.

Upper stage activated [at this point I realized that I left the antenna open, so I closed it]

Powered by a single Terrier engine, it would provide the final boost to orbit.

Orbit achieved (with plenty of Delta-v to spare)! Eve had finally been conquered.

Rendezvous with the Negi Maru and Camlorf's EVA back to the ship

Kerbals had now set foot on every solid body in the Kerbol system. Now the only thing left to do was to wait and return home.

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by Pipcard

[Pipcard]

Mission 270: Project DIVA X 5th / Negi Maru flight 08 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with eXtreme-efficiency propulsion, 5th mission. Returning from Eve to Kerbin.

Y108, D1 (Negi Maru Eve -> Kerbin)
Y108, D326 (Negi Maru Kerbin insertion)
Y108, D327 (crew landing)

The Negi Maru moves to a 700 km orbit around Eve

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The next launch window for a long stay was in Year 109, so the decision was to leave as soon as possible (short stay/opposition-class mission)

Departing Eve

The transfer orbit would go past Kerbin's orbit and wait for it to catch up

Kerbin insertion

Rendezvous with Negi Star Mk2 22

The shuttle leaves the Negi Maru for the last time. It has been 75 years since it was first constructed.

De-orbit

The End

[Space Nerd]

This has been my favorite mission report since like forever, good job on concluding the final mission!

P.s. You can try textures unlimited recoloring depot instead of Kerbpaint for newer versions.

[KerballingSmasher]

Well... that's it. Congratulations! I'm sad to see it go.