Ultimate Jool-5 Challenge. 571 tone single launch to land on all 5 moons!

[jacobgong]

0.23 571 tone single launch, no refuel, stock parts, Jeb's level, 11020 Science, no jets, Jool Probe, extra science!

140t in LKO, 60t at Tylo, 30t at Laythe, 17 tone at Pol departure, 14 tone at Kerbin re-entry.

Ship Profile:

• 1x lander w/extension
  
• 1x Tylo extra stage
  
• 1x Laythe special science unit
  
• 4x generic science unit
  
• 1x RCS bot/ Jool probe
  
• 1x hitchhiker + external seat for 3
  
• Lots of SCIENCE!
  

4x extra material bay, 8x extra goo experiment, 6x extra graviton scanner.

Generic science module contains: 1x material bay, 2x goo experiment, graviton, accelerometer, thermometer.

Laythe special science module also contains: 1x atmosphere data cone, barometer.

Mission profile:

1. Launch, escape Kerbin, Jool aerocapture
   
2. intercept and capture Tylo
   
3. Take off Laythe unit, lander docks with a generic science unit
   
4. Land and return
   
5. Lander and RCS bot +laythe Unit balance the ship on two sides
   
6. Transfer and capture Laythe
   
7. Lander dock with Laythe unit, RCS bot dock to front port
   
8. Land and return, Take atmospheric data, undock sensor cone to dock back to mother ship
   
9. Transfer and capture Vall
   
10. Use generic science unit #2, land and return
    
11. Transfer to Bop at AN/DN without plane aliment and capture
    
12. Land and return with genetic scince unit #3
    
13. Transfer to Pol at AN/DN without plane aliment
    
14. Detach RCS bot, which then escapes into Jool orbit as a probe
    
15. capture and land/return with genetic science unit #3
    
16. Detach lander once science unit and experiment, personnel have been transferred
    
17. Perform escape burn when Pol is at the right angle to Jool retrograde for Kerbin return trajectory
    
18. Adjust intercept, burn off excess fuel for landing, transfer all fuel to bottom tank for detach
    
19. Aero brake, open chute, retro burn near the surface, and detach final engine+tank for more padding
    
20. RECOVER 10 TONES OF PURE SCIENCE!!!
    

Edited January 23, 2014 by jacobgong

[Brapness]

Impressive, but I'm pretty sure Mechjeb stops this being a 'stock' mission

[jacobgong]

It says stock PARTS, not stock mission.

[technion]

Well done. I can't for the life of me understand how missions like this manage to happen. I pulled several times that amount of fuel on my Jool tour and still barely had enough. And nothing I built for Tylo that small managed to break in time.

Your nukes have a great looking color - is that a mod?

[Captain Sierra]

Well done. I can't for the life of me understand how missions like this manage to happen. I pulled several times that amount of fuel on my Jool tour and still barely had enough. And nothing I built for Tylo that small managed to break in time.

Your nukes have a great looking color - is that a mod?

The mod is called HotRockets! Particle Effects Replacements. Go look it up in addon development.

How you do this so small!

My grand tour vessel:

Overkill? maybe. But if it is, I have yet to be convinced of it!

[technion]

The mod is called HotRockets! Particle Effects Replacements.

Thanks will do!

My grand tour vessel:

It's hard to imagine there being "overkill" on a grand tour vessel. I mean, a rocket like that would ALMOST get me to moho

[Captain Sierra]

Thanks will do!

It's hard to imagine there being "overkill" on a grand tour vessel. I mean, a rocket like that would ALMOST get me to moho

With the kethane lander, Tylo lander, and both SSTOs attached, it packs over 6km/s of delta V. This thing can get you ANYWHERE.