Single launch to all of Kerbol sysem in 3.5 years

[maccollo]

Well this is it, I'm no longer going to play this game. This mission burned me out to much.... But I had to do it!

I designed this back in 0.21. It's a roundtrip through the entire Kerbol system, planting a flag on all of them and then returning to Kirbin, taking 1347 days from start to finish.

The main principle of the mission architecture was not bringing more fuel to certain points of the mission than necessary, the Apollo approach as it were.

This is obviously done with the landers and tugs, but also by splitting the fuel reserves. Only the parts that are needed for Eve and Moho are taken to the inner solar system.

At jool the fuel reserves split up and use Tylo's gravity to swing down to Vall and Laythe, thus not having to accelerate the 18 tons of fuel down and out of Tylo's gravity well.

For such a slow long mission it was pretty hectic, and after Eeloo success became uncertain because I took to long in getting there and missed the opportunity for a proper burn to Duna.

Subsequently I had do a do a 2000 m/s burn to get Duna.

I guestimated the deltaV I had left and what it would take for the rest of the mission and decided to gamble that I would make it instead of prolonging the mission.

When a rendezvoused with the Kirbin re-entry capsule at the end the lander had 2 units of fuel left

Edited December 22, 2013 by maccollo

[Nephf]

Wow. this is awesome!!!

[Monkeh]

Utterly magnificent. Bravo.

[vexx32]

Moved to Live from Mission Control.

[Ralorwolf]

Wow........ um, makes me feel small

[lajoswinkler]

There isn't a succicient amount of rep for this. Mind blown.