All right, I’ve recently installed SFS 1.35 for PC, and after building a shuttle and landing everywhere separately, I decided it was time to land on all of them on a single mission. Yes, I’m talking about a Grand Tour.
I’m using the bigger grid mod, to make bigger rockets, which sounds unfair at first moment, but everyone from the few people that completed this mission back on 1.35 used either orbital/launchpad assembly or refueling. I’m not doing anything of that, I’m just using this mod. My mission is single launch and no refueling, but if you still think this is unfair, leave your vote on the poll above.
And I’m using the ROSCOSMOS texture pack made by Jupiter, so its basically a Russian Grand Tour
Okay this is my rocket
God, I love this staging mod! You can detach all the boosters simultaneously by just pressing a single button!
Anyway, I went to Venus first, this is my spacecraft during the TVI.
Now Backwards, after the boosters are separated As you can see there two landers. The one that has the fairing is for Venus only, and the other one, with solar panels, is for basically, everything else.
I’m using aerobrake to make an orbit around the second planet, next I’m going to detach the first lander. The mothership will remain in a low orbit.
First target completed, now back to orbit and to meet with the mothership.
My Venusian lander is the small craft you see on the left. Now I’m going to transfer the remaining fuel on the lander to the mothership and detach the fuel tank, rotate the capsule and dock it back.
Now the Venusian lander is in command of the mothership! To Mercury…
In the route to this planet I used Altair’s Triple Gravity Assist maneuver to reduce apoapsis to Mercury’s level, that saved me about 200 m/s of dV. Again, its just detach the second lander and go to the surface.
For doubts, you guys can look at SFS Engineer at the top right corner and look it says “Current Body: Mercury”.
Back to the mothership again and on my way to Mars. I burned for Venus, then used a Venus GA to reach Earth and an Earth GA to reach the red planet. Aerobrake helped in orbit capture. Again, I refueled the lander and descended.
This is the last time I’m using the mothership, she has served us well, but her fuel levels are really low. So, I’m just going to climb, dock, refuel and abandon her… But I didn’t want to leave her in orbit, so I used the Ions to deorbit… Then detach the capsule and reorbited again.
You can see on the SFS Engineer that periapsis indicates 0. Now, on the current configuration, to the Martian moons.
We have done on the Martian System, but we have one more goal: The Moon.
So, I just waited on Deimos till the transfer window to Earth, then until Deimos is behind Mars (not exactly behind, a little outward), burned for Mars, the at the periapsis burned for Earth. It worked!
Back to the pale blue dot I trimmed my aerobrake so when it was completed my apoapsis was approximately at Moon’s level, now it was just timewarp to get an encounter and land the standard way.
You can see I have plenty of fuel, So I’m going for a final goal: Land on the launchpad!
That’s all. Mission Completed. Thank you for reading.
I’m using the bigger grid mod, to make bigger rockets, which sounds unfair at first moment, but everyone from the few people that completed this mission back on 1.35 used either orbital/launchpad assembly or refueling. I’m not doing anything of that, I’m just using this mod. My mission is single launch and no refueling, but if you still think this is unfair, leave your vote on the poll above.
And I’m using the ROSCOSMOS texture pack made by Jupiter, so its basically a Russian Grand Tour
Okay this is my rocket
God, I love this staging mod! You can detach all the boosters simultaneously by just pressing a single button!
Anyway, I went to Venus first, this is my spacecraft during the TVI.
Now Backwards, after the boosters are separated
As you can see there two landers. The one that has the fairing is for Venus only, and the other one, with solar panels, is for basically, everything else.I’m using aerobrake to make an orbit around the second planet, next I’m going to detach the first lander. The mothership will remain in a low orbit.
First target completed, now back to orbit and to meet with the mothership.
My Venusian lander is the small craft you see on the left. Now I’m going to transfer the remaining fuel on the lander to the mothership and detach the fuel tank, rotate the capsule and dock it back.
Now the Venusian lander is in command of the mothership! To Mercury…
In the route to this planet I used Altair’s Triple Gravity Assist maneuver to reduce apoapsis to Mercury’s level, that saved me about 200 m/s of dV. Again, its just detach the second lander and go to the surface.
For doubts, you guys can look at SFS Engineer at the top right corner and look it says “Current Body: Mercury”.
Back to the mothership again and on my way to Mars. I burned for Venus, then used a Venus GA to reach Earth and an Earth GA to reach the red planet. Aerobrake helped in orbit capture. Again, I refueled the lander and descended.
This is the last time I’m using the mothership, she has served us well, but her fuel levels are really low. So, I’m just going to climb, dock, refuel and abandon her… But I didn’t want to leave her in orbit, so I used the Ions to deorbit… Then detach the capsule and reorbited again.
You can see on the SFS Engineer that periapsis indicates 0. Now, on the current configuration, to the Martian moons.
We have done on the Martian System, but we have one more goal: The Moon.
So, I just waited on Deimos till the transfer window to Earth, then until Deimos is behind Mars (not exactly behind, a little outward), burned for Mars, the at the periapsis burned for Earth. It worked!
Back to the pale blue dot I trimmed my aerobrake so when it was completed my apoapsis was approximately at Moon’s level, now it was just timewarp to get an encounter and land the standard way.
You can see I have plenty of fuel, So I’m going for a final goal: Land on the launchpad!
That’s all. Mission Completed. Thank you for reading.
