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

[Shania_L]

80, 96, 60 years? wow damn, err are those all on stock sized systems?

I have OPM on a 6.4scale install, I think I may have just realised just what kind of a challenge this might be

[Sharkman Briton]

I tried OPM with 64K before, it messed up the distances and Sarnus was the same distance as Jool, Eeloo was not a moon of Sarnus and it was all really confusing.

[lajoswinkler]

80, 96, 60 years? wow damn, err are those all on stock sized systems?

Yeah, what the hell?

[Yukon0009]

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

Your trajectory must be really screwed up. Hell, even Dawn only took a few years to get to Vesta and Ceres.

[Findthepin1]

It looks like it's in some sort of near-resonance with Dres, and isn't in the right plane. I could correct it with an hour or so (on 4x warp) of ion engine running, but I'm a busy person and have other things to do than sit for an hour watching little subatomic particles try to propel half a ton of ship to Dres.

I called it Don.

[nsgallup]

This is the best thread in Mission Reports

[lajoswinkler]

I wouldn't say the best, but if you think so, thanks.

The ship has passed Joolean orbit. Its main dish is pointed towards Kerbin.

So far the systems work fine. Onward towards Sarnus' orbit.

[The White Guardian]

More than 17.5 km/s relative to Kerbol right after the engine shutdown.

Merciful Kod! How did you get to such speeds?! (Maybe a noobish question, but I'm still a rather... 'unexperienced' player, so...)

[elitebuster]

Merciful Kod! How did you get to such speeds?! (Maybe a noobish question, but I'm still a rather... 'unexperienced' player, so...)

Burning for a very, very long time...Very Very Long.

[nsgallup]

lajoswinkler seems to enjoy 30 minute plus burns while in physics warp.. this would make me want to punch through my monitor.

Edited October 22, 2015 by nsgallup

[The White Guardian]

Burning for a very, very long time...Very Very Long.

Huh. I once launched a giant ship and sent it at Jool. After a 5 minute burn time, the result was an encounter with Jool in approximately 6 months.

Did cost me an insane amount of fuel though... and even more to brake.

[lajoswinkler]

Merciful Kod! How did you get to such speeds?! (Maybe a noobish question, but I'm still a rather... 'unexperienced' player, so...)

The probe was pretty lightweight and when you go nuclear on such probes for a long time, you get high speeds. Kerbin revolves around Kerbol at 9284.5 m/s, so this was a delta v of more than 8.2 km/s which is not a huge problem. Even greater speeds can be achieved using ion engines, but that would be a lot tougher. Waiting for that long... oh.

[lajoswinkler]

The ship is crossing the orbit of Sarnus. Kerbin and Eve are in conjunction.

All systems nominal.

[nsgallup]

Nice!, can't wait for tasty Neidon pics

[Rath]

MOAR! I need my fix!

[lajoswinkler]

Crossing Urlumian orbit. 1 year, 200 days to go.

243 million kilometres away from Kerbol, 3870.4 m/s. This is the farthest a Kron ship has ever been from Kerbin.

[VASMIR]

Yeeee

[nsgallup]

More! Give me more!

[DMSP]

Keep going and posting!

[Sharkman Briton]

hype!

[lajoswinkler]

The ship has entered the Neidon SOI.

14 days, 13 hours until periapsis. Little less than 30 days until leaving the SOI.

Valentina is the only Kerbal awake, and this is what her view through the window looks like.

Thatmo is the dot left of Neidon. Nissee is not even visible yet.

Orbital insertion will take up to 1800 m/s.

[lajoswinkler]

I'm having difficulties deciding how to proceed with Nissee. It should be the first target, so that I can easily revert the orbit and drop lower to Thatmo and get away from Neidon easier in the end.

There are issues, though. Orbital insertion should occur as close to Neidon as possible (Oberth effect), but then catching Nissee turns into a long mission unless the ship uses hyperbolic trajectories right inside Neidon's sphere of influence which costs fuel.

I could tweak the initial trajectory so that the ship passes next to Nissee, but then the Oberth effect won't be utilized, and also I doubt the ship could brake that fast. Nissee is tiny.

What to do, what to do?

[nsgallup]

Interesting quandry indeed

[GabrielG.A.B.Fonseca]

I believe the Oberth effect will be more effective than trying a gravity assist with Nissee. You'll be closer to a much more massive body by going for the Urlum route than Nissee, after all.

Besides - skimming gas giants yields amazing screenshots.

Now, about the hyperbolic routes, I think you should make a compromise between time/fuel. I trust your judgement on this.

[lajoswinkler]

It would be easier if I just ignored Nissee because my current trajectory, combined with braking at periapsis, would take me directly into Thatmo's SOI.

However I can't do that, I must visit all of the OPM bodies.