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Planing a big tour - with a probe ! slingshot advises needed


Darth Lazarus

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chuckle, I know how that goes. My most recent game I accidentally accepted a duna satellite contract and was way off window for it and didnt want to wait. I launched it now with a 5km/s departure burn that cuts down below moho's orbit to hit duna with another 5k in the tank to slow down since I know aerobreaking from that speed in duna's thin atmo isnt happening. Still its going to get there months before the actual launch window opens.

LOL! That's so awesome :) Very Kerbal. Love it.

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Mission update:

okay guys my current Plan is to launch 3 seperate Missions with increasing difficulty. each new planet should be reached by a slingshot with minimal dV spending from engines and each mission will have one more additional slingshotmaneauver.

Mariner 6: Kerbin -> Duna -> ?

Venus Probe: Kerbin -> Eve -> ? -> ?

Voyager 1: Kerbin -> ? -> ? -> Jool -> ?

so my questions now:

-has anyone good blueprints of Mariner 6? i already have a stock version, which i want to update with parts from AIES pack. but i can't find good blueprints of the probe.

-does anyone know a good Venus mission, which would fit my missionprofile? a flyby with two additional targets?

-any sugestions for the "questionmark" or "unknown" flybytargets? Like going from Eve back to Kerbin to slingshot to Duna, or Dres or so ?

i'm still testing the KSPTOT tool. it's very powerfull and amazing, but overwhleming and complicated. the flyby-maneuver planer is wonderfull. i saw that you can do any mission you want ... but all depends on dV spending. so i have to figureout how to plan a mission with a probe an a minimal amount of dV.

here a picture of my Atlas Centaur (stock and mod) and my Mariner 6:

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