A trip to Jupiter (Real Solar System)

[jamis]

Today, for the first time, I was able to build and launch a probe from "real size" Kerbin/Earth, to Jool/Jupiter. I didn't try to optimize at all--no Eve/Venus fly-bys, no fancy trajectories, just a simple Hohmann transfer from Kerbin to Jool.

My conclusion: Jupiter is awesomely, breathtakingly, painfully huge, and mind-bogglingly magnificent. I wish now that I'd done this with a universe-replacer that made things look like Jupiter, but this was enough to give me a taste for just how enormous our real solar system is.

Here are some pics of my arrival at Jool/Jupiter (I didn't think to take any screenshots of the launch, sorry!)

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Other mods I used: Deadly Reentry Continued, FAR, RealFuels, StretchySRB, Realism Overhaul, Kerbal Joint Reinforcement, Visual Enhancements, and MechJeb, as well as various part mods (Procedural Fairings, AIES, KW Rocketry, NovaPunch, RLA Stockalike, others).

[11of10]

Congratulations! All I can say, you've given me additional motivation to upgrade my computer, as it can't hold it's own with RSS and other addons that go with it!

Respects!

[NathanKell]

Uh...wow. Yeah. Massive is the word!