Asteroid A Redirection, No Class A in space?

[callimero]

Hi,

I got a asteroid mission which says I should bring in a newly discovered A class asteroid into kerbin orbit.

There is no A Class one :-( The next biggest is a B class. Will the mission work with this one?

And is there a tutorial how to get close (match orbits or whatever, strategies are needed) to these asteroids? I watched the Scot Manley video, but that left more questions open than it answered due to the fun..

Carsten

[Norpo]

Just terminate asteroid unknown objects until you get an A class, and wait. It won't work with a different class of asteroid.

[capi3101]

For asteroid rendezvous, I suggest Claw's tutorial. Class A rocks are really light as a rule - no more than about 2.5 tonnes, tops - so the little five-part probe design he suggests is very sound. I might recommend using an LV-N if you've got access to that level of technology (one of the rare cases where you'll wind up with more thrust AND more delta-V), but the 909 does a fair enough job on its own. You might have to use OX-STATs and batts in place of the PB-NUK; that's fine. RCS would help with the actual "making contact with the rock" part, but it's not essential.

Edited January 23, 2015 by capi3101

[callimero]

Ah, I see. Just accelerate time in tracking.

I did try more but not with much success, the orbit of an asteroid in Kerbals range is quite strange and I did not manage so far to get an encounter which helped me.

Claw tutorial is excellent! Would have took me ages to figure out myself.

Thanks,

Carsten

Edited January 23, 2015 by callimero

[Sirrobert]

Claw tutorial is excellent! Would have took me ages to figure out myself.

Thanks,

Carsten

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