My Europa Mission

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(see also my shuttle entry earlier)

I had originally planned to send the Space Station from my Team Frontier entry to Europa, together with a science payload of a thermal drill and two rovers. The plan was to make use of my Team Hawk Atlas payload and my Team Hawk Shuttle payload to round things off. However the fuel requirement to sent all that to Europa was approaching 5-6kt and would have required rather a lot of launches! Fully documenting all those launches would have been rather a lot for the judge(s) to wade though.

In the end I decided on a simpler 'sample return' probe to Europa. Even that resulted in 50 screenshots. I might do the Europa science mission later and post a shorter set of screenshots for it elsewhere (general discussion?).

Mode: Normal/Sandbox ( all cheats disabled)
Minor Blueprint editing used (via the 'Part Text' mod)

Textures
Metallic Textures 1.0 Altair
PEx Shapes+ 1.0 Proxima Exploration (don't think they appear in this one)

The blueprint editing consisted of resizing the fuel tank bottom center to 10m wide and 4m high also resizing the stage separator above it to match. I used N.original_width and N.height to resize whch adjused the mass and fuel capacity (and separation force of the stage separator) to match. Blueprint attached.

Blueprint and Launchpad
01_BP.PNG 02_Launchpad.PNG

Launch to LEO
03_Launching.PNG 04_Stage1Sep.PNG 05_EnterSpace.PNG 06_LEO1.PNG 07_LEO2.PNG

Journey to Jupiter
08_StageSep2.PNG 09_XferToJupiter1.PNG 10_XferToJupiter2.PNG 11_XferToJupiter3.PNG 13_StageSep3a.PNG 14_StageSep3b.PNG 15_JupiterOrbit.PNG

Journey to Europa
16_XferToEuropa1.PNG 17_XferToEuropa2.PNG 18_EuropaOrbit.PNG
 

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My Europa Mission (part 2)

Europa Landing
19_LanderDetach.PNG 20_Deorbiting1.PNG 22_Deorbiting2.PNG 23_Landing.PNG 24_Landed.PNG

Return to Europa Orbiter
25_EuropaLaunching.PNG 26_XferToOrbiter.PNG 27_OrbiterApproach.PNG 28_OrbiterDocked.PNG 29_Refuelling.PNG 30_Refuelled.PNG

Leaving Europa Orbiter
31_StageSep5.PNG 32_LeaveEuropaOrbit1.PNG 33_LeaveEuropaOrbit2.PNG

Heading Home
34_LeaveJupiterOrbit.PNG 35_StageSep5.PNG 36_XferToEarth1.PNG 37_XferToEarth2.PNG 38_XferToEarth3.PNG
 

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My Europa Mission (part 3)

Entering Earth Orbit
39_LoweringReturnOrbit.PNG 40_ReturnLEO1.PNG 41_ReturnLEO2.PNG

Deorbit and reentry
42_ReentryDeorbit.PNG 43_DetachProbe.PNG 44_ReentryStart.PNG 45_ReentryMid.PNG 46_HalfParachute.PNG 47_FullParachute.PNG

Landing and recovery
48_EarthLanding.PNG 49_EarthLanded.PNG 50_Challenges.PNG

(no mission log was generated)
 

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you have to click continue in order to get the mission log.
For this specific challenge this is necessary
 

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I did. SFS skipped the mission log and went straight to the menu. It has been doing this for a while now. That is the reason I took so many screenshots with the world clock visible. It should be possible to get the same information from them apart from the max heatshield temperature.
 

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I did. SFS skipped the mission log and went straight to the menu. It has been doing this for a while now. That is the reason I took so many screenshots with the world clock visible. It should be possible to get the same information from them apart from the max heatshield temperature.
Yeah, a lot of people don't get the mission log. It should be good, but I'm no judge.
 

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(see also my shuttle entry earlier)

I had originally planned to send the Space Station from my Team Frontier entry to Europa, together with a science payload of a thermal drill and two rovers. The plan was to make use of my Team Hawk Atlas payload and my Team Hawk Shuttle payload to round things off. However the fuel requirement to sent all that to Europa was approaching 5-6kt and would have required rather a lot of launches! Fully documenting all those launches would have been rather a lot for the judge(s) to wade though.

In the end I decided on a simpler 'sample return' probe to Europa. Even that resulted in 50 screenshots. I might do the Europa science mission later and post a shorter set of screenshots for it elsewhere (general discussion?).

Mode: Normal/Sandbox ( all cheats disabled)
Minor Blueprint editing used (via the 'Part Text' mod)

Textures
Metallic Textures 1.0 Altair
PEx Shapes+ 1.0 Proxima Exploration (don't think they appear in this one)

The blueprint editing consisted of resizing the fuel tank bottom center to 10m wide and 4m high also resizing the stage separator above it to match. I used N.original_width and N.height to resize whch adjused the mass and fuel capacity (and separation force of the stage separator) to match. Blueprint attached.

Blueprint and Launchpad
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Launch to LEO
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Journey to Jupiter
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Journey to Europa
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Looks good. Altaïr Mooncrasher
 

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wait is Altaïr now also able to grant badges?
 

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Badge granted, sorry for the delay!

Yep, I'm able to give badges now, it's been a bit more than a year actually :)