Dres and Kidna

[TJPrime]

Dres is probably one of the most unexplored bodies in the kerbol system. It's always been

There is no Dres, Only Jool

. How many challenges involve Dres? No recent ones.

So, I put forward to you all....

The Dres & Kidna Challenge - A replica of the dawn mission!

Two things you might not know about:

- Dawn (you might know, actually)

- Kidna

Kidna, because NONE of you will know, is an asteroid in a similar orbit to Dres. As a class E asteroid, it has intrigued scientists for centuries. In-game, it is called LJF-099. In the save file below, the Kidna asteroid lies...

Save file: Kidna

Dawn, as some of you may know, is a mission to explore Ceres (which Dres is an analogue of) and a large asteroid - Vesta. It is active and after investigating the asteroid, it is on it's way to Ceres and arriving in 2015.

So, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to send a probe to investigate these two bodies before sending a manned mission to Dres.

POINTS:

Initial probe

+10 for Ion propulsion

+10 for a Kidna flyby

+10 for a Dres orbit

+5 for going to Kidna before Dres

+50 for doing it in career mode

+200 for re-directing it to kerbin

+(x) for it looking cool

Manned mission

+50 for getting into orbit

+100 for not using nuke engines (Isp > 700)

+10 for a landing

+1 for every kerbal that is on the lander

+2 for each lander simultaneously landed on Dres from a single ship*

+25 for return to Kerbin

+(x) for it looking cool

+100 for any life support

+10 for a single launched ship

triple initial points for use of life support

*you can dock things in kerbin orbit, but once it's out of Kerbin SOI, nothing can go there unless you make it a permanent space station around Dres

MODS Allowed:

KW rocketry

Life support mods

NovaPunch

All of the NEAR future packs

If you want to use a mod, ask me and I'll put it in

Edited October 12, 2014 by TJPrime

[Vaporo]

Wait... You're allowing Hyperedit?????? You do realize that essentially means that people can just Hyperedit a probe core right to Dres and the asteroid and complete the challenge in about ten seconds?

[Kulebron]

I don't understand the reason for reducing points for MechJeb. It's qute a complex mission, and disproving mechjeb means favoring those who have much free time.

Edited October 7, 2014 by Kulebron

[Oafman]

I don't understand the reason for reducing points for MechJeb. It's qute a complex mission, and disproving mechjeb means favoring those who have much free time.

Yeah, I'll second that.

OP, do you mean no MJ in the VAB or to use just for the additional in-flight data, or did you just mean no maneuver planner or auto-landing etc?

Also, if life support mods are allowed, should there be bonus points for their use?

[Yukon0009]

If you allow hyperedit, a lot of people would win this in five secs. Not that I'm using it.

[TJPrime]

Updated. Didn't realize I put hyperedit in the allowed mods. I was hyped over the 0.25 update. I've also put in a bonus for using life support.