Epic chicken's HoT entry

[The epic chicken]

Hi, I'm epic chicken and today, I'll be flying you on a HoT flyby tour of Venus, Mercury and the sun

This is my HoT spaceship, with a liftoff mass off 9,976 tonnes

It consists of one massive launching stage, the blast us into orbit, and another 4 efficiency stages for the flybys

And we lift off while producing some extreme lag

And climb high into the atmosphere

And we reach orbit safely

And we do a transfer burn to venus with the launch stage's remaining fuel

And use the efficiency stage boosters to finish the burn

And off we go

Oh and we should probably chuck the fairings

Hello venus

And we'll burn to venus again for another gravity assist

and off we go

Hello again Venus
and bye Venus

Now we'll burn to Mercury

And we're on a flyby of Mercury

Hello Mecury

And we leave Mercury

And we'll coast for a bit, and start our flyby burn

The side boosters have ran out of fuel, so we'll jettison them and fire up the core's engines




(To Be Continued)

 

[The epic chicken]

After some more slowing down, the core runs out, so we'll open the second stage

And we slow down enough to get under 500,000 km

Hello sun

and now I'll fly back to earth, well after we wait for a low cost transfer burn to show up

A low cost transfer burn has showed up so let's go to Earth

And we'll use the final stage as the second stage is empty now

And we're nearly there

Approaching earth

And we're in the soi

And we do some braking burns

And another

And another

And we've done enough braking to safely re enter, so bye bye final stage

And we're re entering

Still slowing down

About to hit 15 kilometres off the ground

And we've done a successful re entery

Parachutes have been deployed


(To Be Continued)

 

[The epic chicken]

Touchdown

Jettison and clear debris of the heat shields and parachute assemblies

And the achievements menu


So yeah, thats my HoT entry and thank you for choosing HoT Spots Tourist Agency

 

[Rigel]

That's a Leviathan. Impressive rocket.

 

[The epic chicken]

That's a Leviathan. Impressive rocket.

Thanks