[Challenge] Piloting a SRB munshot

[Boris_T_Roach]

This challenge was inspired by the latest NASA mission to the moon

2 SRB stages and a liquid fuelled probe that will eventually crash into the mun sorry moon

So having fiddled with a design made out of stock parts..

The challenge here is how good a pilot are you? and Can you land safely on the mun?

Craft file : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boris_t_cat/Social/SRB%20munshot.craft

Ship in the VAB : http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1099165943081979204/B53C5C3C8588C869BA51C037D9D5A25263751B32/

And probe on the mun : http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/1099165943081990932/8E513CFCD03D169F519B8D2A96E3DC8AB471AA2C/

Boris

Good luck

[MarkoeZ]

Gonna try this.

Any idea for scoring? or just succeed or fail? (idea's: most fuel left, quickest time)

[Rhomphaia]

Not sure of what you are looking for. but I have this from another challenge back in may

Mun Mission.

Total Cost 3285.

The Second stage Has slightly too much TWR

This Stage finalizes LKO and begins Munar Transfer, Landing engine has to finish that though.

On course to Mun, readying a small correction to put me on an impact trajectory. (TBH there were a couple of mishaps where I forgot to rotate to face the sun before warping and probes impacted or were ejected due to running out of leccy)

coming in for a landing near the south pole

Final descent.

nearly there, careful... Careful... Really wish I had some kind of laser altimeter.

Touchdown.

[MarkoeZ]

I think the challenge is to do it with the craft provided, otherwise its way too easy.

And challenging indeed, not much fuel to work with. Did a first run, but already used to much fuel before the last quicksave so gonna try again in a couple of minutes. I did get the probe head to survive, speed on impact was about 30m/s, also tried with rcs assist, but not enough power there.

[MarkoeZ]

Done!

Time could be better and still a bit of fuel wasted, but still a pretty decent run. Only needed one quicksave/load for the final landing

Coming in fast!:

Velocity gone, landing on RCS:

Stabilizing:

Landed!:

[Boris_T_Roach]

It was with the craft provided sorry about that.

But well done to someone who could fly better than me

but quicksave/quickload.....

It was only that I surprised myself in being able to land on the mun in one go with it... I never expected it to get to a decent orbit..

[MarkoeZ]

Well, the thing is, i really know the transfer from Kerbin to the Mun from hundreds of launches. So re-doing that every single time takes away the fun for me, and i still play to have a good time

So what i do is, i go to Kerbin orbit (takes a couple of launches to get it right with an unfamiliar craft), plan and execute a capture maneuver, fastforward a bit, and do a quicksave before i start my final mun maneuvers.

And it can still take a lot of time that way, because if you save at the wrong point its not possible anymore, like what happened in my first trials. Also, even with quicksaves, it took me a couple of hours to complete, and thats about the right time for a challenge imo, so well done

But if its really necessary I can do a full youtube run (http://www.youtube.com/machinemarkoez)

Edited September 11, 2013 by MarkoeZ

[Boris_T_Roach]

Nawww just -1 point for using quick save

You did it with more fuel left than me so you're the current winner.

[MarkoeZ]

Hahaha thanks!

I think its possible with more fuel left though. But gonna wait for another challenger first.

Edit: You screenshot shows way more fuel though? :S

[Johnno]

Quite a fun little challenge, quick too. Here's my first try (no quickloading).

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Btw some scoring system would indeed be nice.

[Moar Boosters]

Scott Manley did a video about this. He does the challenge himself, but the video is about a plan a bunch of British scientists came up with in the 1940's to launch a SRB moonshot.