Expedition Jovian Solstice (Jupiter Mission)

[Dahzito]

I´ll post here the updates of my Jupiter Mission or also called Swingin' on a Star.
I´ll do a orbital assembly of the complete spacecraft that ill orbit the king of the solar system and then land on one of the moons and return safely to the Earth, the complete spacecraft I´ll be launched in 3 parts to Low Earth Orbit and to reach Jupiter orbit I´ll use VEEGA (Venus-Earth-Earth Gravitational Assist) and other gravitational assists of the moons of Jupiter.

Here is the first part of the spacecraft, I´ll use the engine of the second stage to do the VEEGA and reach Jupiter orbit, the launch craft is a bit to powerfull so I was able to reach LEO with the 1º stage and the solid boosters:

Launchpad:

Boosters separation and fairings deployment (here you can see that I am still able to reach LEO with the first stage, allowing me to only do some orbit corrections with the second stage):

Main engine Cutoff and LEO (Low Earth Orbit):

Second stage separation:

Orbit corrections:

 

[Dahzito]

2º part of the spacecraft is now acopled with the 1º part.

Launchpad:

Boosters separation and deployment of the fairings:

Main engine Cutoff, LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and 2º stage separation:

Rendezvous with the 1º part:

Docking and refueling:

 

[Dahzito]

Moving now on the 2 External fuel tanks for the main engine of the spacecraft, each fuel tank will carry at least 60 Tons of fuel, and I´ll maybe add more fuel in case that the spacecraft is not able to reach Jupiter orbit.

 

[Dahzito]

One thing that I love in SFS are the DeltaV calculatores, they are very useful when trying to do missions like this.

The DeltaV calculator that I used in this mission is this: The Rocket Maths Spreadsheet by Horus Lupercal.

Without making the External Fuel tanks to have 4 times their original fuel, the DeltaV of the engine of the spacecraft would only reach 2710 m/s of DeltaV.

By bp editing the Fuel Tanks the DeltaV will be of at least 4970 m/s of DeltaV, now I'm able to reach (I think) Jupiter orbit.

I know that I could do this mission in a more simple way but I Iike doing missions like this.

 

[Dahzito]

1º External Fuel Tank is now acopled with the spacecraft.

Launchpad:

1º Solid Rocket Boosters separation:

2º Solid Rocket Boosters separation:

Main engine Cutoff, separation of Second Stage and fairings deployment:

LEO (Low Earth Orbit):

Rendezvous with the spacecraft:

 

[Dahzito]

2º External Fuel Tank is now acopled with the spacecraft, now preparing for the departure of the spacecraft.

Launchpad:

1º Solid Rocket Boosters separation:

2º Solid Rocket Boosters separation:

Main engine Cutoff, separation of Second Stage and fairings deployment:

LEO (Low Earth Orbit):

Rendezvous with the spacecraft:

 

[Dahzito]

Already did the VEEGA gravitational assists, arrived at Jupiter orbit and I'm now orbiting Europa.
Had to do some refuelings with the External Tanks but the mission is going as planned.

Venus Gravitational Assist:

Venus Arrival:

1º Earth Gravitational Assist:

1º Earth Arrival:

2º Earth Gravitational Assist:

2º Earth Arrival:

Final burn before I arrive to Jupiter:

Jupiter orbit:

While I was at Jupiter orbit I did some gravitational assists with the moons to slow down the speed of the spacecraft.

Ganymede Gravitational Assist:

Io Gravitational Assist:

Europa Gravitational Assist:

2º Ganymede Gravitational Assist:

 

[Dahzito]

Orbit Corrections and now on course to Europa:

Europa Orbit:

 

[Dahzito]

Concluded now the mission successfully!

Europa Landing:

The lander was too much fuel, so I used the lander to dock with the spacecraft.

Rendezvous with the spacecraft:

Separation of the Lander and docking with the spacecraft:

Escaping Europa Orbit:

Escaping Jupiter Orbit, separation of the External Fuel Tanks and on the way to Earth!!:

Earth Orbit:

Separation of the Main Engine:

Re-entering the atmosphere:

Landing:

 

[Dahzito]

Flight Mission Log:

 

[ILovespace3]

This seems legit, but didn't you already complete Team Hawk? What's the point in doing such a hard mission if you have when you already completed a the rank?

 

[Dahzito]

I like doing these challenges

 

[Altaïr]

Hello and sorry for the delay,

Unfortunately I can't give you the badge because of how you edited the fuel tanks: your 2 side tanks have 334% of fuel. From what I understand from the spreadsheet you added around 340 tons of fuel that way. But the tanks that would hold those 340 tons would weigh a bit more than 37 tons, this is that much dead mass that you saved.
Believe me that I'm really sorry about that because it's an awesome mission otherwise.

 

[Dahzito]

Ok, It's sad that I didn't get the badge but I'll try doing the mission again, at least I liked doing this mission.

 

[Dahzito]

Trying to do the mission again, this time I developed a different rocket and I'll not do a orbital assembly because the rocket is too powerful to reach Jupiter orbit, so the plan is almost the same, do VEEGA to reach Jupiter and do other gravitational assists with the moons of jupiter.

And I gave a name to my rocket, the name is: Interplanetary Launch System, and yes this rocket is heavily inspired by the rocket SLS Block 1b and by the Ares Program.

 

[Dahzito]

Made some changes to the rocket:

 

[Dahzito]

Here is the mission again:

Launchpad:

Solid Rocket Boosters separation:

Separation of the main stage and fairings deployment:

LEO (Low Earth Orbit):

Venus Gravitational Assist:

1º Earth Gravitational Assist:

2º Earth Gravitational Assist, orbit corrections and on the way to Jupiter:

HJO (High Jupiter Orbit):

1º Ganimede Gravitational Assist:

 

[Dahzito]

1º Callisto Gravitational Assist:

2º Ganimede Gravitational Assist:

3º Ganimede Gravitational Assist:

Orbit Corrections:

Europa Orbit:

 

[Dahzito]

Landing:

Rendezvous with the spacecraft:

Escaping Europa Orbit:

Orbit corrections:

Separation of the Second Stage:

Had to use the fuel of the lander.
Separation of the Lander:

On the way to Earth:

Earth Orbit and Re-entering in the atmosphere:

 

[Dahzito]

Separation of the Capsule and Re-entering in the atmosphere:

Deploying the parachutes:

Flight Mission Log:

 

[ILovespace3]

*clapping*

 

[Altaïr]

Very good mission, I personally appreciate how you use ANAIS to its full power
Badge granted, congratulations

 

[Dahzito]

Thank you , and yes the ANAIS mod is very useful, principally when I don't want to waste time and I want to know the DeltaV.

I personally consider this mod one of the best (if not the best).

 

[Altaïr]

Thank you , and yes the ANAIS mod is very useful, principally when I don't want to waste time and I want to know the DeltaV.

I personally consider this mod one of the best (if not the best).

That was the purpose. I also consider it a must-have, but I can't say I'm very objective