[Ongoing] SSTO Jool-4

[peachoftree]

This is my spaceplane that I sent to explore the joolian system (exluding tylo, don't have the twr), all launched in one stage from kerbin and with refuleing provided by my station and kethane. I present: The L.S.S Andromeda

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[Specialist290]

Impressive mission there Shame about the mishaps, but ultimately the complications made for a better story all around. Planning on sharing the rescue / return mission as well?

[peachoftree]

I managed to land fine and intend to continue the mission as planned. among other mishaps, my very hackish rover that has four RTG's clipped inside the body also happens to be the only source of power on the ship. (As unintentional punishment for my debug menu sins) I plan to go on to a few more islands on laythe and visit vall, bop and pol before coming back to kerbin. The thing about vall though is that i'm not sure I have the TWR to make the planned tail first landing at the anomaly. So I might have to land using a burst of thrust from the rapiers and take off horizontally if RCS cannot push up the nose. It's going to be fun:cool:. I also have no ladders so to get the kerbals back on the plane I have to lower the gear and do a jetpack assisted jump onto the wing.

Edited November 25, 2014 by peachoftree

[peachoftree]

So I took off from laythe, thinking I had enough fuel to get to vall. However, I totally underestimated the amount of delta-v to take off from laythe with a spaceplane and did not refuel before taking off again. So now I have a ship stuck in vall orbit so I am going to have to send a refueling mission to the ship. which also happens to be in a polar orbit. Pics to come, see the end of the album for more!

EDIT: pics to come a bit later, figured uploading 17 megs of pictures over my phones wifi tethering might be a bad Idea

Edited November 26, 2014 by peachoftree