Mercury Rocket
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Getting to Mercury is not really hard... Landing is near impossible (read "requires decent skill, decent planning and plenty of... um... let's call it practice...). I'll post a rocket that can get you there if you fly decently. That means using only as much throttle as necessary, since part throttle saves a lot of fuel. Which you'll need for braking... Anyway, let me post that rocket for you.
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I did it! (kinda)
What happened: I got into Mercury orbit with an edited version of TtTOtW's rocket so it could fit the grid and got a collision course. I barely had any fuel at that point and when I tried to slow down I ran out of fuel & crashed into Mercury. Luckily, the slowdown was enough to prevent my ship (or what was left of it) to go flying up and crashing again. Pretty crazy huh?
Edited Ship
Thank you all for your help!
P.S. When I went to resume game to get pictures, my pod glitched out and exploded. Atleast I got the picture to prove I did it!
What happened: I got into Mercury orbit with an edited version of TtTOtW's rocket so it could fit the grid and got a collision course. I barely had any fuel at that point and when I tried to slow down I ran out of fuel & crashed into Mercury. Luckily, the slowdown was enough to prevent my ship (or what was left of it) to go flying up and crashing again. Pretty crazy huh?
Edited Ship
Thank you all for your help!
P.S. When I went to resume game to get pictures, my pod glitched out and exploded. Atleast I got the picture to prove I did it!
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Just for fun, I made a rocket to a one way trip to Mercury, here is the plan:
It's less powerful, but more efficient, you'll just have to be patient, as the small engines have really low thrust. If you try it, the most difficult part is while getting into Earth orbit, you must aim for an orbit as low as possible, ideally below 50km altitude. Because of the 4 boosters, the rocket is very nervous at start, so it's easy to go too high. If that happens, you'll spend too much energy to circularize your orbit, so you would better start again. If you manage to do this, the rest is easy (provided you optimize at least a minimum your trajectory of course).
On my last try, I managed to get in close orbit around Mercury, and still had some fuel left (on the picture, the fuel gauge is the one of the last stage, the lander is still attached and have all its fuel):
I used the remaining fuel to brake, then undocked the lander, and then landing was easy. Actually I spent much more fuel than necessary because I wanted to land next to another lander from a precedent try
I don't know if that rocket will fit into your grid though, but I'm sure you will find a solution to this
It's less powerful, but more efficient, you'll just have to be patient, as the small engines have really low thrust. If you try it, the most difficult part is while getting into Earth orbit, you must aim for an orbit as low as possible, ideally below 50km altitude. Because of the 4 boosters, the rocket is very nervous at start, so it's easy to go too high. If that happens, you'll spend too much energy to circularize your orbit, so you would better start again. If you manage to do this, the rest is easy (provided you optimize at least a minimum your trajectory of course).
On my last try, I managed to get in close orbit around Mercury, and still had some fuel left (on the picture, the fuel gauge is the one of the last stage, the lander is still attached and have all its fuel):
I used the remaining fuel to brake, then undocked the lander, and then landing was easy. Actually I spent much more fuel than necessary because I wanted to land next to another lander from a precedent try
I don't know if that rocket will fit into your grid though, but I'm sure you will find a solution to this