Laythe scientific Mission

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Goal is to design a lander, including Lab, for more convenience, able to land with no chutes, make science and collect all datas, reset experiments, and make rendez vous with a refueling ship in order to land 3 times on 3 different sites. Once it's over, the Lander will be sent to Kerbin where only the Lab and the capsule will land using chutes.

I design a lander of 88T able of 5200DV, with 4 1440L rockomax fuel tank.

Here is the Lander

The refueling ship will have a main KW Rocketry tank, the biggest one, 10935L, that will allow 2 complete refueling. I add cross with 8 700L rockomax fuel tank (2 times 4 tanks) docked on each other.

The idea is to dock those tanks at the back of the lander so that they will give it additional DV for de-orbiting and landing maneuver and we can land with one of those tank dock underneath. I use TAC fuel balancer to manage them and optimize fuel so that I get maximum DV on take off.

Launch of Refuelling Ship, 4710T. On the top is a small ship that will be send on 600km orbit, just for warp use, when rendez vous between Refuelling ship and lander on 90 km orbit.

On course to Jool

Jool interception: A first 115km periapsis and a second one at 130km, then 2 135km periapsis allows a 22500km apoapsis to intercept LAYTHE with minimum DV use

Laythe interception

First periapsis at 25km gives an 800-900 km apoapsis, then a 30km periapsis give a 190km apoapsis, with minimum DV use

View of Jool from Laythe orbit

Burning to establish a 100km orbit

Now we launch the Laythe Lander. He sits on a top of 4 each other docked 720L rockomax fuel tanks. total weight is 4883T

We are establishing a 600km orbit that is easier to warp for Jool departure.

Burning to Jool

Jool orbit

Jool first periapsis at 117 km

Interception of Laythe, with no use of DV

Lander establishing Laythe periapsis

view of Jool and Laythe

Jool rise on Laythe from the Lander Mainship

Lander is undocked from the mainship. I only took 2 additional tanks from the mainship

Entering atmosphere, experiments in progress

Retroburning, still having my 2 additional tanks

Near ground, the lowest tank has been dumped

EVA from my verbal

Kerbal is collecting and proceeding to experiments

Gathering experiments in the lab

Take off to join the refueling ship

Maneuver for rendez vous

View of both ship

Approach with docking port alignement indicator

Contact

Refuelling

To be followed