Yeeting christmas presents with rockets cos there's definitely some poor orphans on mercury and phobos/deimos :)

[Marmilo]

So, this was a very stressful endavour. After spending a week procrastinating, over 4 days on planning the route, making the landers and throwing together a high leo capacity lifter the launcher was finally ready:

Spoiler: Launcher

So I had 3 days left to do the mission. Here's how it went:

Spoiler: Achieving LEO

First stage sep:

Breaking karman line:

LEO:

Spoiler: Venus GA

Transfer:

Barely any fuel left in the 2nd stage/es, did some weird fuel transfers from the ion fuel tank
Flyby:

For some reason I cose this moment to dump the sidemounted second stages, look in next spoiler

Spoiler: Separation

Dumping the siderockets

Fairing payload reveal

From there I just timewarped around waiting for a mercury flyby

Spoiler: Mercury flight

Doing the mercury transfer

Got an encounter:

At this point I detatched the mercury lander (forgot to screenshot that), so the mothership (or whatever you call the rest off the rocket) just got a slight flyby, while the mercury lander does it's job.
Capture burn:

Lowering orbit:

Mercury pic (idk why I took it, mercury is ugly as hell in this game, very plain

Spoiler: Mercury landing

So now I landed the lander, it's just one wide stage with presents on the belly, was too concentrated on the landing to take a lot of screenshots
Heres the lander:

Out of space for more attachments, continuing in next message.

 

[Marmilo]

Ok part 2

Spoiler: Part 2 of mercury landing

So I detached the presents and landed the lander a few meters away

Now time to deliver the other presents
Time for a venus flyby (don't rmb why I did it)

Spoiler: Maybe to save fuel for the mars transfer

My fuel:

Cheap transfer:

Flyby:

Trajectory after burn:

Now It's time to do a mars transfer, I realize something scary. I didn't attach 2 parachutes connected to a docking port and mars capsule, which means I theyre disconnected... Except they're not. Turns out the thin side-parachute-strut-thing connects to the fairing of the mars lander. It should be able to detatch tho...

Spoiler: Mars transfer

Found a transfer window, lets yeet the rocket to mars:

Got an encounter:

Time for a capture burn:

And right as we capture in mars orbit, the fuel runs out in stage 3:

Time for separation:

By now you should see what I mean, the reentry capsule is obviously connected through faring and side parachutes. Thats bad.
Stage 4 in action, Lowering orbit:

Low mars orbit:

Lowering the orbit a bit more:

At this point I detatch the lander (srry no pics) Thankfully nothing broke, but I'll have to reenter with no heat shield.

Spoiler: Mars landing

Deorbit burn:

Landing:

I have no Idea why I didn't get heated up, I'm pretty sure Ive got 1.5.3. Most likely it's cos because of no hs I descended very carfully, I don't think I passed 400m/s.
Anyways, present detatchment and lander relocation:

Now I realised I have another problem: the phobos and deimos landers are each missing one of their presents, cos I messed up part attachments lol. They should've had a present on both sides of their grashopper engines. So, that is a loss of 20 point that couldve been fixed with one strut. I'm almost crying.
Marsian moons in next post.

 

[Marmilo]

So, time for phobos and deimos. Their gravity is almost inexistent, thus a weird capture burn.

Spoiler: Phobos

Transfer done with stage 4, unfortunately didn't get transfer pics, so heres the landing pic:

Basically hovering above the surface I dropped the present, and flew the mini carrier into mars orbit:

Time for deimos

Spoiler: Deimos delivery

So, because the 1.5 nav system sucks, I make the mars orbit smaller so it can actually work and show me a transfer. Then I do a deimos transfer, detach the mini carrier from the 4th stage, and drop the present on deimos:

Then I escape with the minicarrier to mars orbit:

Also, I had a weird glitch that every few minutes when I switched from map view to real view I wouldn't see the rocket, and couldn't control it. Had to restart my game like 5 times bc of that.
I barely managed to finish before my parental limits blocked SFS, which put me under quite a bit of pressure, which resulted in me forgetting to take screenshots in some moments.
I have a ton of quicksaves tho, so tomorrow I can recreate parts of the mission if someone wants the pictures.

 

[Marmilo]

Now a quick summary:
3 presents on mercury, 25 + 20 + 15 = 60
4 presents on mars, 20 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 50
1 present on deimos, 15
1 present on phobos, 15
totals to 140 points I think (correct me if I'm wrong)
Category is DLC single build, no clipping no bp edit.

 

[The epic chicken]

Now a quick summary:
3 presents on mercury, 25 + 20 + 15 = 60
4 presents on mars, 20 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 50
1 present on deimos, 15
1 present on phobos, 15
totals to 140 points I think (correct me if I'm wrong)
Category is DLC single build, no clipping no bp edit.

I didn't count

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Noice

 

[James Brown]

Why don't you put gifts on Venus?

 

[Marmilo]

Cos it's got a max value of 5 -_-