Epic chicken's HoT entry

The epic chicken

Grim Reaper
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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
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It consists of one massive launching stage, the blast us into orbit, and another 4 efficiency stages for the flybys
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And we lift off while producing some extreme lag
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And climb high into the atmosphere
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And we reach orbit safely
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And we do a transfer burn to venus with the launch stage's remaining fuel
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And use the efficiency stage boosters to finish the burn
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And off we go
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Oh and we should probably chuck the fairings
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Hello venus
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And we'll burn to venus again for another gravity assist
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and off we go
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Hello again Venus
and bye Venus
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Now we'll burn to Mercury
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And we're on a flyby of Mercury
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Hello Mecury
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And we leave Mercury
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And we'll coast for a bit, and start our flyby burn
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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

Grim Reaper
Asteroid Contest Winner
TEAM HAWK
Swingin' on a Star
Atlas
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After some more slowing down, the core runs out, so we'll open the second stage
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And we slow down enough to get under 500,000 km
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Hello sun
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and now I'll fly back to earth, well after we wait for a low cost transfer burn to show up
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A low cost transfer burn has showed up so let's go to Earth
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And we'll use the final stage as the second stage is empty now
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And we're nearly there
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Approaching earth
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And we're in the soi
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And we do some braking burns
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And another
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And another
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And we've done enough braking to safely re enter, so bye bye final stage
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And we're re entering
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Still slowing down
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About to hit 15 kilometres off the ground
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And we've done a successful re entery
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Parachutes have been deployed


(To Be Continued)
 

The epic chicken

Grim Reaper
Asteroid Contest Winner
TEAM HAWK
Swingin' on a Star
Atlas
Fly me to the Moon
Under Pressure
Registered
#3
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Touchdown
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Jettison and clear debris of the heat shields and parachute assemblies
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And the achievements menu


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

Rigel

Swingin' on a Star
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#4
That's a Leviathano_O. Impressive rocket.