New Horizons Challenge: Quickest Probe to Eeloo

[SunJumper]

This challenge is to send a probe on a trajectory that will cause it to fly by Eeloo. However, the lads on the Kerinternet are impatient, and want their Eeloo pictures ASAP. Your task is to send a probe to Eeloo as quick as possible. Said probe must: Have a power source, so it doesn't die (or become unable to torque) Have "communication abilities" (just glue an antenna onto it) Have a camera (just glue some lights to it) Not impact Eeloo Now, all that is needed is a picture of the craft on the launch pad, and at the periapsis at Eeloo (showing the MET, so no F2). Crafts will be judged on: MET at periapsis (Days Hours Minutes) ... And that's it. Velocity at periapsis should be high, but isn't judged for (one could take 600 days getting to Eeloo and then burn like hell). Leaderboard: Sunjumper: 623d 04h 42m* * Use this as a benchmark, I got this from a mandatory test run Nb: Unfortunately, the forums aren't currently supporting formatting of posts (including the use of the enter button), so this post will for the time being have to look like a brick wall of letters...

Edited September 2, 2013 by SunJumper

[Johnno]

Thought I'd throw together a quick submission to get this challenge started. Did this rather quick without anything too fancy, with more time spent on a craft to up the delta-v you can shave off more time. Btw SunJumper, you should probably add a rule about infinite fuel / debug menu being forbidden. Perhaps even limit moduse so people don't bring in superfancy stuff (or worse, hyperedit stuff into Eeloo orbit).

My entry, all stock apart from engineer redux, no debug menu; 142 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes.

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[Mesklin]

My craft is Eeloo express: MET is 67 days 5 hours 20 secs (all stock, no mods completly, no departure windows planer, only eyes)

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