Kron series (Kron 6 end of mission) - temporary halt of program

[Sharkman Briton]

600th reply! I can't wait for them to arrive! Any flybys is an added bonus!

[DMSP]

Great Gravitational Assist.

Keep going!

[lajoswinkler]

Mun slingshot.

This is the closest distance to Kerbin the crew will be at in a long time. 8732 km, at 962.1 m/s, which is enough to get forever thrown out away from Kerbin's gravity well.

Resultant contracted orbit is here. It's still 1.3° inclined relative to Neidon's orbit.

Now I have to decide whether to correct the inclination (a bit over 200 m/s of expense) and then burn at periapsis (seems it helps considerably), or burn a bit before periapsis without inclination change.

Regular Hohmann transfer would last something like 9 years. How much should I cut that? 2 years?

[insert_name]

I'm not familiar with nedion, but it seems like it would have a big SOI, if so I would recommend not wasting the Dv

[lajoswinkler]

Indeed, Neidon's SOI is pretty big, being so far away from Kerbol.

Jebediah checked out the comm dishes before going to sleep.

And here's Bill looking at the crew.

The crew getting frozen.

Thrusting to reach third cosmic speed has started.

[lajoswinkler]

The burn will last around two hours at this framerate and timewarp.

[DMSP]

The burn will last around two hours at this framerate and timewarp.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/395546970951992922/7861F1B52F62C62554FF32C4DCC3D1471F97920F/

Good luck!

[Sharkman Briton]

Better get the coffee m8

[Rath]

Ummm, Doctor. What. Is it possible to get addicted to stories on the Internet?

[lajoswinkler]

3rd cosmic speed achieved. And more than that. Regular Hohmann transfer would last more than 9 years. I think three times shorter was enough.

I always like to see this pattern.

The engines are cooling down. Reactor is at 5%. SAS is turned off. Remaining delta v is at least 9 km/s. Kron 5 is a rock thrown out of the solar system.

The crew is sleeping.

(Some of you might've noticed the discrepancy between the dates in the screenshots. It's because of a fatal lack of one part that caused the ship's reactor to die. I've added the part at VAB and hyperedited the ship duplicate at the same spot with the same amount of tanks. Nothing has changed except that the ship now has one extra insulator. Kron 5 can now thrust indefinitively at almost 45% power and for a couple of minutes at 100% without the reactor getting cooked even if it's turned off.)

Edited October 13, 2015 by lajoswinkler

[meve12]

So what does first, second, and third comsic speed mean?

[Sampa]

Hey Lajos, an idea for a future mission...send the mission in two halves! Send the lander and base parts in one set and send it ahead of the Kerbonauts. After they arrive in orbit of your chosen destination, send the Kerbonauts to the destination. Just an idea to help spice up your already Cool adventures!

[lajoswinkler]

So what does first, second, and third comsic speed mean?

Here's the explanation, as well as equations.

http://www.dsp.agh.edu.pl/_media/en:dydaktyka:cosmic_velocities.pdf

Hey Lajos, an idea for a future mission...send the mission in two halves! Send the lander and base parts in one set and send it ahead of the Kerbonauts. After they arrive in orbit of your chosen destination, send the Kerbonauts to the destination. Just an idea to help spice up your already Cool adventures!

That is an interesting idea, but would make things easier.

The idea behind Kron ships is to try to send a 3.75 m based ship with all the needed equipment. It's basically a self sustaining space station and it does deploy one before heading back.

It's pretty tough to do it, hence the tweaking of the propulsion unit for every mission. I did once (I think it was with Sarnus) send a refueling tank out of precaution because it was my first manned OPM mission, but in the end it wasn't even needed.

I'll have to do it with Ablate, although I'm not even sure a Kron type mission and ship could reach it, even with refueling and all.

[Sharkman Briton]

So how close exactly is Ablate to Kerbol? I have seen it in Galactic Neighbourhood (mod) but it's so far up it's star's butt that I don't believe it's that close... That gives me an idea! Get the Other_Worlds mod, and do missions to Cercani!

[lajoswinkler]

Around 645,000 km. Radiative heat at that distance is insane.

[nsgallup]

Is ablate in a 1.0 compatable planet pack?

[Yukon0009]

Yes, it along with the Sentar expansion was updated by a new author.

[lajoswinkler]

It's perfectly compatible and even better - you can remove other planetary bodies which is easy - just delete their folders. That way you keep your RAM from bloating and still enjoy the feature you like.

[DMSP]

So how's the crew going?

[lajoswinkler]

They are sleeping, and the ship is crossing Duna's orbit.

[DMSP]

They are sleeping, and the ship is crossing Duna's orbit.

Cool!

How long until they get there?

[lajoswinkler]

Over 3 years.

[nsgallup]

My transkeptunian probe is gonna take 80 years to encounter it's target

[Findthepin1]

My Dres probe is gonna take 96 more years to reach its target. It's already been 48.

[Elowiny]

My urlum probe will reach Urlum in about 60 years. That's because it encounters Urlum when "falling" toward the sun, so it has to reach an apoapsis which is well beyond Urlum's orbit first.