3 In 1 Challenge

[EmperorJon]

Your mission is simple.

You must place 3 probes into space.

The Advanced SAS will be your probe.

Sounds simple enough right?

Ok. Well, here\'s the hard part.

One probe must be placed in a 'circular' (about 5km maximum variation between apo./per.) orbit.

One probe must be placed in a highly elliptical orbit (lowest point must be under 100km, highest should be several million.)

One probe must escape, and never be seen again.

The crew must survive and land.

Stock parts only.

Will you rise to the challenge?

[NovaSilisko]

In theory that\'s quite easy. Get into a circular orbit and then slowly increase it to an escape trajectory, releasing one probe at a time at various points in the orbit.

[Salda007]

Hmm, looks interesting. I\'ll have to take a crack at it later.

One thing, though:

The Advanced SAS will be your probe.

Please correct me if I\'m wrong, but I thought multiple ASAS parts on a ship didn\'t really play well together.

[JupiterII]

Hmm, looks interesting. I\'ll have to take a crack at it later.

One thing, though:Please correct me if I\'m wrong, but I thought multiple ASAS parts on a ship didn\'t really play well together.

Adding more just doesn\'t multiply the effect. So 100000000000000000000000000000000000 have the same effect as 1 since ASAS use RCS.

[EmperorJon]

@Nova SHHH, you weren\'t meant to tell them that...

Anyway, the original idea was to have to go circular release - escape release - circular release again...

[Omnivore]

This is what you call an almost success.. or better a should\'ve been success.. I\'m not sure I reached true escape velocity although I realize now I could have since I had an entire tank of fuel remaining for the trip home and didn\'t have to conserve the deployment stage\'s fuel. :-[

Note that the \'probes\' are launched with spent SRBs still attached - couldn\'t see wasting mass on separators.

Here\'s the story in pictures:

[Tim_Barrett]

@Nova SHHH, you weren\'t meant to tell them that...

Anyway, the original idea was to have to go circular release - escape release - circular release again...

Since when was it a secret to the community? xD

[foamyesque]

Adding more just doesn\'t multiply the effect. So 100000000000000000000000000000000000 have the same effect as 1 since ASAS use RCS.

That\'s not quite accurate. Yes, they still use the same controls, but they\'ll be telling the controls to do different things. You can get some spectacular failures that way.

[JupiterII]

That\'s not quite accurate. Yes, they still use the same controls, but they\'ll be telling the controls to do different things. You can get some spectacular failures that way.

Just like Bob, Jeb and Bill

[Salda007]

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Members of the Press, we are happy to report the successful launch and deployment of the Marinara-1, -2, and -3 probes this evening atop the Prober-2 launch vehicle.

Launch was nominal, although Bill had issues with certain staging decisions.

Marinara-1, measuring atmospheric patterns, was deployed in LKO, 93km apokee by 91km perikee.

Marinara-2, measuring Kerbin\'s Van Kallen belts and magnetosphere, was released into a 3.7Mm by 90km orbit shortly thereafter.

Finally, the deep-space Marinara-3 probe was deployed on an escape trajectory.

Mission control was concerned with fuel reserves, so the decision was made to perform a minimum-fuel return. The pod was dropped back into orbit, with Apokee approximately 17Mm. From there, a deorbit burn was performed.

Reentry and parachute deployment were nominal, and a powered splashdown brought our crew safely home, picked up by the recovery ship shortly thereafter.

Flight Results

Thank you all for coming, and special thanks to Ma Kerman for the refreshments.

[EmperorJon]

Nice, I was trying to think of something to say about each of the 3 probes. One\'s a weather satellite, one\'s a magnetic field analysis probe, and one is of course a deep space probe.

[Alchemist]

Launch report.

Command level confidential! Do not share the full version!

Launch of our new SL3-D SL3 special edition 1-032 launcher with 2 3 satellites on board successful. The satellites deployed to desired orbits, crew landed safely.

Full log:

T+0 Liftoff. Stage 1 and 2 ignition.

T+0:00:25 First stage (SRB) separation

T+0:03:13 2nd stage separation, stage 3 (SRB interstage) ignition.

T+0:03:39 3rd stage separation, stage 4 (Ascent/orbit inserton) ignition.

T+0:18:20 After achieving LKO stage 4 is separated in order to test efficency of SL3-D separate orbital accelerator concepce deploy payload 0. According to Keep-Space-Clean directive stage dropped on atmosphere intersecting trajectory. Transfer window in 4 minutes.

TOP SECRET

T+0:20:45 After RCS orbit corrections payload 0 - spy satellite deployed in minimal safe orbit just above 70km atmosphere cutoff. Even if they notice it, they should think it\'s incorrectly dropped interstage.

T+0:28:20 Separating orbital accelerator (stage 5). According to KSC directive orbit intersects upper atmosphere and will decay in several days.

T+0:33:42 After minor orbital corrections, Astrophysics Research Satellite deployed in highly eccentric Kerbin orbit.

T+0:34:53 deploying Deep Space Probe

T+5:00:15 after returning to elliptic trajectory, orbital freighter (stage 6) reaches apoapsis at 8140 km and makes last trajectory corrections for atmospheric reentry. What the idiot activated SL2 KSO insertion program? Luckily we found it before circularisation.

T+9:40:04 Entering the atmosphere. Service module separation.

T+9:43:40 Capsule landed safely.

[romanguy1337]

could you please put that ship up for download