The Mainsail Challenge

[ThreeMartiniLaunch]

So....dead thread, or did I win?

[OTehNoes]

So....dead thread, or did I win?

Think its just quiet.

[snowraver1]

I'm just finishing up my entry for this. So far I've been to minimus, dune and Ike. I'm sitting on Ike for the return window. I might have enough Delta-v remaining to aerobrake into Kerbin's SOI and make a quick stop on the mun.

This trip has been especially explodey, so it's taken a few design tweaks and reloads... I hope to have everything posted tonight

[snowraver1]

As promised: My entry

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Edit: I guess that didn't work... just go here - http://imgur.com/a/8h7IL/embed

Edit2: OTehNoes helped me out (you are a gentleman and a scholar!):

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Edited March 12, 2014 by snowraver1

[zapy]

Well, finally I ended this challenge.

http://imgur.com/a/ZHKVW

I created a top stage of 7 half of the size orange tanks, and a separated lander. The lower stages are placed in a onion style staging (I did't have enough patience to use aspargus for this) that can lift everything to orbit and about 600 m/s to mun transfer. I forgot to place fuel lines, so I had to do the transfers manually. Everytime that a pair of tanks is ended I decouple them to save weight. I place the ship in low orbit arround the mun and decoupled the lander, landed and back to orbit again.

then I transfered to Minmus and the same proceeding. Then to Duna, where I performed some aerobraking manuevres to save fuel. Once in circular orbit, I decouple the lander again and I land in low terrain to save fuel with the parachutes. Land, repack chutes and back to orbit, same to travel to Ike. My intention was to return to Kerbin, but I had more than 3000 m/s delta-v, so I decided to travel to Eve. I used gravity assist flyby to Kerbin to reduce speed, then transfer to Eve, flyby and aerobreaking, then I wasted most of my remaining monopropellent to save weigh. Transfer to Gilly and landing there. Finally, take off, transfer to Kerbin, some aerobreaking, plane correction, and landing on KSC.

So, Mun, Minmus, Duna, Ike and Gilly landing, and Eve and Kerbin flyby.

[OTehNoes]

As promised: My entry

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Edit: I guess that didn't work... just go here - http://imgur.com/a/8h7IL/embed

Do this, without the asterisk's:

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[mr_yogurt]

After a (short) hiatus, updated! Extremely impressive new entries.

[Nemrav]

ah finally I will compete :

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How will this do ?

edit : haven't calculated the dV, but I used every bit of fuel in it (I used the remaining fuel as an interplanetary probe)

I still probably don't make the leader board do I ?

Edited March 13, 2014 by Nemrav