Solar Orbit

[Selrahc4040]

My mind just got raped by the amount of awesome in these pictures. I could never even think of dreaming stuff like this up! As for the Serpinski bug, ah well, what can you do?

[boolybooly]

My mind just got raped by the amount of awesome in these pictures. I could never even think of dreaming stuff like this up! As for the Serpinski bug, ah well, what can you do?

Funny you should ask, I found out today that it is possible to land on the KSC terrain after the Sierpinski bug has started.

So I guess I completed this challenge as part of that attempt at the 'shoot for the sun' challenge linked above, which is also a solar orbit challenge but it entails orbiting with a PE half Kerbins altitude at least once. Makes returning even trickier.

Here is a screeny of the stock parts ship, proof of orbit and landing as my entry for this challenge.

[gabyalufix]

Woah. I didn\'t notice the guy who landed on serpinski using SRB\'s only. Good gods, that guy is hardcore.

Jebbe, I bow to a master.

[nivvydaskrl]

I completed this challenge as part of the 'Shoot for the Sun!' challenge. I placed myself in a 5.8 billion meter by 13.9 billion meter orbit (periapsis with Kerbol under half the distance between it and Kerbin) with a period of 3/5ths that of Kerbin\'s orbit. After 3 Kerbin orbits and 5 orbits of my ship -- 317 days of mission time, and 9.5 months after my last correction burn -- I intersected Kerbin\'s SOI with a periapsis of 5 million meters. I then burned into an aerobraking orbit and touched down safely on the surface of the planet.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=3008.msg107620#msg107620

The main thing is to make sure that the solar orbit you put yourself into has a period that\'s some easy fraction of Kerbin\'s orbit. If you do that, you\'ll get brought back to the planet automatically!