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(Mooncrasher)
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Voyager Quest
Man on the Moon
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When I got my ranks, it was early 1.5 before the now-essential things of re-entry heat and engine heat existed.
I feel guilty for skipping those two issues, so I'm trying again.
And this this with IRIS, to provide an "experience"
A big rocket just to return a probe. And it isn't even overkill (much) w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶o̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶I̶R̶I̶S̶.
Launch, the lunar ascent stage is slightly drained of fuel at the buildscreen because I know not all the fuel is required.
Booster and then fairing separation.
It's fun trying to juggle "turn early and a lot for less gravity losses" with "I'd better get high so I have time to go sideways and reach orbital velocity before falling back into the atmosphere".
Core separation, and unlike the Long March 5B, we are nowhere near orbit yet.
And then we run out of fuel on the NEXT stage, we are almost at orbital velocity. The rocket equation is really making itself felt here.
With the next stage we loft ourselves to a orbit. Yes, the periapsis is still in the upper atmosphere but we'll raise it when we timewarp to the apoapsis. I physics timewarped at 3x until 65km or so, to see if drag would change the apoapsis at all.
There was no change, so I was satisfied to timewarp straight to the apoapsis.
Finally we reach orbit in space. I could have left it in the upper atmosphere for more Oberth effect, but eh...
We start the lunar injection with the orbiting stage, and finish with what is hopefully the lander stage.
Nothing much here, being captured by the moon.
Oh. Why did I put legs on it then?
Using the ascent stage to land, very skillful.
To be continued.
I feel guilty for skipping those two issues, so I'm trying again.
And this this with IRIS, to provide an "experience"
A big rocket just to return a probe. And it isn't even overkill (much) w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶o̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶I̶R̶I̶S̶.
Launch, the lunar ascent stage is slightly drained of fuel at the buildscreen because I know not all the fuel is required.
Booster and then fairing separation.
It's fun trying to juggle "turn early and a lot for less gravity losses" with "I'd better get high so I have time to go sideways and reach orbital velocity before falling back into the atmosphere".
Core separation, and unlike the Long March 5B, we are nowhere near orbit yet.
And then we run out of fuel on the NEXT stage, we are almost at orbital velocity. The rocket equation is really making itself felt here.
With the next stage we loft ourselves to a orbit. Yes, the periapsis is still in the upper atmosphere but we'll raise it when we timewarp to the apoapsis. I physics timewarped at 3x until 65km or so, to see if drag would change the apoapsis at all.
There was no change, so I was satisfied to timewarp straight to the apoapsis.
Finally we reach orbit in space. I could have left it in the upper atmosphere for more Oberth effect, but eh...
We start the lunar injection with the orbiting stage, and finish with what is hopefully the lander stage.
Nothing much here, being captured by the moon.
Oh. Why did I put legs on it then?
Using the ascent stage to land, very skillful.
To be continued.
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