Project Le Verrier
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Horus Lupercal
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Uh, I'm sorry but I'm terribly busy with top priority stuff, I can't answer you right now 
We can discuss about it later, after 1.5 is out, don't hesitate to ping me.
We can discuss about it later, after 1.5 is out, don't hesitate to ping me.
You're a true navigator.
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Main mission complete. Unfortunately I've grossly underestimated the propellant needed to return home, although the mothership have successfully returned to a low elliptical Earth orbit, it is completely dry.
I'll send an emergency tanker up to refuel the Orion spacecrafts so the crew can return to the surface.
I'll send an emergency tanker up to refuel the Orion spacecrafts so the crew can return to the surface.
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Horus Lupercal
Primarch - Warmaster
Professor
Swingin' on a Star
Deja Vu
Biker Mice from Mars
ET phone home
Floater
Copycat
Registered
Actually I'm not being entirely accurate, I brought way more propellant than I needed (at least 63 tons extra, which was one additional tank), problem was my poor trajectory planning.
When the ship was preparing for a Neptune departure burn, it was unable to align the planetary alignment window with its burn window properly due to its highly elliptical shape, so I was forced to burn prematurely in order to secure a crude home trajectory before the window is completely lost.
With this crude trajectory, it required a very long inefficient correction burn after leaving Neptune's SOI, not to mention correction burns after being deflected by Jupiter's gravity due to an unintentional encounter.
This sapped the propellant till it was virtually running off fumes, like I could hardly see the indicator bar at all. But still it was enough to bring the ship's periapse to around 31km after the aerobrake.
When the ship was preparing for a Neptune departure burn, it was unable to align the planetary alignment window with its burn window properly due to its highly elliptical shape, so I was forced to burn prematurely in order to secure a crude home trajectory before the window is completely lost.
With this crude trajectory, it required a very long inefficient correction burn after leaving Neptune's SOI, not to mention correction burns after being deflected by Jupiter's gravity due to an unintentional encounter.
This sapped the propellant till it was virtually running off fumes, like I could hardly see the indicator bar at all. But still it was enough to bring the ship's periapse to around 31km after the aerobrake.