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Found a passage in Chapter 7 where the ship's length is said to be 47m long, slightly longer than your ship. I highligted it in blue. ***spoiler alert*** do not reat the rest of the paragraph in case you haven't read the novel yet! It contains massive spoilers!! :D

GOOD, GOOD, GOOD! ;) But notice that the Hail Mary is much more slender as described in the book than in the scheme of the first pages. Andy describes the ship as 47m long. Also, the astrophage fuel tanks are much longer, making about 75% of the ship, with a diameter of 4m each.

The L1 is great, but the LK lander is just awesome. Maybe your rocket exists in a parallel universe in the For all Mankind style, and Alexei Leonov is the first man on the Moon thanks to you. Congrats, commrade!

And Callixto: After I went back to Callixto orbit and dock with my mothership, I found myself with a lot of fuel still left. I read in the Lonely Planet guide of Mars that the planet is lovely this part of the year, so I decided to stop there to take some pictures. Sadly, my lander lacked...

Read about this challenge, you know, a trip to all Jovian moons and back with just 2 launches, limited to 300T each. Many people said that it's doable using ion engines. Thing is, I wanted to prove it. Or, more precisely, I wanted to see what could be achieved with ion engines and a 300+300 Tons...

WOW! THAT's a rocket o_Oo_Oo_O

:cool::cool::cool::cool: Thanks guys, I'm overwhelmed. I want to thank you all, I very much appreciate this prize... wait a minute... What did you say the prize was?... a badge??.... NO MONEY AT ALL????

Oh, that would be nice. I'd like to make a realistic mission there

...or maybe heavier than yours. That'd hurt much more, would't it? :p

Disagree. You still need chemical rockets to land and lift off in all four moons. It's not that easy for the average SFS player with the 2x300T limit.

Ha ha ha, Not really! I learnt the "three bodies alignment" trick in the VEEGA video tutorial. But for the rest of the flight, t's mostly a lottery: first try, I ran out of fuel before arriving; then I made it easily the next try with the same rocket. Theory is good, but the result depends on...

Rigel Airways, in an effort to make the Mercury trip affordable for everyone, has been optimizing our rockets to make them lighter, simpler, and cheaper. As a result, we have shrinked our spaceship down to 696T. Here's the report of our maiden flight: Here's our new rocket. Same architecture...

I tried that mission some time ago. I used a custom solar system, I can't remember who made it. But the point is that the outer planets' SOI were big, so it was very easy to get a slingshot from one planet to the next, if you chose the right trajectory. I think the actual Voyager Quest is harder...

That's a Leviathano_O. Impressive rocket.

I've been working abroad for some time, so I'm sorry for being out of the forum for so long. Here's my submission for the Proficient flight. This is my spaceship. No BP edition, no clipping, no cheats. A powerful first stage with two boosters; a high eficiency second stage; and the spaceship...

Hey! I didn't notice your replies! Here's the corrected BP. I had doubts about shortening the fairing, as there were different types of fairings available for the Ariane 4, and some of them matched my replica: Nonetheless, I've changed it, and corrected the left booster engine: Thanks for...

Some tips: First, try to enter Earth with a trajectory as similar to Earth's path as possible. If the angle between your velocities is too high, your relative velocities will be huge. For example: Here the trajectories are quite similar. this leads to a reentry speed of less than 4000m/s Here...

After a long trip, I burn whatever fuel is left in my tanks to brake as much as possible before entering Earth orbit, as I have a very fast relative speed: Happend that I was too conservative and entered in a too high trajectory, so I didn't aerobrake enough to land in my first pass through...

This is my second entry for Team hawk: A mission to Ganymede!!! Here is my rocket. Two stages, with two boosters. On top of it, my spaceship, with a pair of solar pannels, an antenna, and a lander. More than enough to reach Jupiter: Now the launch up to Earth orbit: Ok, Now I burn my second...

We want pics!!!

Thanks! Not only I visited Triton, but also Callixto! I time wrapped, I don't even know how to edit the planets position :). The time span between two Grand Tour alignments takes just a little longer than a full Neptune orbit. But In my case I had to wait until its fourth orbit till I found...

(Sorry I sent the mission report unfinished. Now I'll continue) The challenge is to make a probe that flybys the four giant planets without need of main engines: just relying in the gravity assists and the small corrections you need to do with the RCS. Just like the Voyagers did. So, This is...

Simce I was a child I've felt fascinated about the Voyager Program. A trip around the four outher planets and beyond, in a 45 years long mission that's still ongoing? Wow. That's the epitome of heroic space exploration. So I want to recreate it. But it won't be easy. First of all, the Voyagers...

Cool. Now I can recreate Haumea

Hi again. I've reworked the ESA logo. Now I'm tempted to start other Ariane replicas, so I can reuse the logo...