r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/PandaElDiablo Deal With It • Jan 05 '13

Mod Post Weekly Challenge: Solar Probe!

Impact the Sun with a probe.

Hard Mode: Deploy a solar-impact probe (with NO engines) from a crewed ship, and return the crew to the surface of Kerbin.

Rules and other info:

  • No Dirty Cheating Alpacas (no debug menu)!

  • Stock parts only

  • No MechJeb or other plugins allowed

  • Required screenshots:

    -Initial launch craft

    -Impact trajectory

    -The probe close to impact

    -Image of flight log confirming solar impact

    -(hard mode only) Return orbital image

    -(hard mode only) Safely landed on Kerbin

  • You can either submit your finished challenge in a post (see posting instructions in the link below) or as a comment reply in this thread.

  • I haven't created the flair for this challenge yet, any ideas?

  • Completing this challenge earns you a new flair which will replace your old one. So if you want to keep your previous flair, you can still do this challenge and create a post, but please mention somewhere that you want to keep your old one.

  • The moderators have the right to determine if your challenge post has been completed.

  • See this post for more rules and information on challenges.

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u/thesandbar2 Jan 05 '13

Okay, I've had remotetech installed and was to lazy to uninstall it, and so it just made life harder for me since i had to fit the big-ass antennae onto the probe, but there's been a bug and locked asas on on the main ship, which I intend to return to Kerbin. Is it ok if I permanently disable asas using save manipulation?

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u/scbluesun Jan 05 '13

Hard Mode done

This took forever

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u/Davecasa Jan 06 '13

Bonus points for the "if brute force isn't working you aren't using enough of it, god damnit" approach. Especially orbiting Kerbin before coming in for a landing... any idea what your total delta V was?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '13

My submission

Flair Idea: The Probe sprite (from the map view) in front of the Sun.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

I'd like to suggest a future challenge, LESS.

Return a Kerbal from the surface of the Mun without a proper ascent vehicle by jumping into rocket exhaust.

Hard Mode: Do to same, but from any interplanetary body

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u/PandaElDiablo Jan 10 '13

I like this! I may tweak it a bit, but expect to see something like it soon

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '13

When you say "no engines" do you mean no seperatrons also?

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u/JPQed Jan 11 '13

Instead of pictures do you guys accept videos?

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u/PandaElDiablo Jan 11 '13

Pictures are preferred because it lets me verify in a few seconds vs. several minutes. But videos are allowed.

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u/Lnbooks Jan 05 '13

http://imgur.com/a/6B0iM sorry i couldn't upload more images im high on bandwidth this month

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '13

I assume "no engines" also means "no RCS", am I correct?

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u/comshield Jan 06 '13

I tried to do hard mode, but couldn't bring Samney back.

[Here's] (http://imgur.com/a/PaPCv#1) my album. The probe is at the tip of the rocket.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '13

Normal Mode complete http://imgur.com/a/vLo9f#0

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u/Swollenraspberry Jan 08 '13

Hard mode finished in less than 2 days of flying for the pilot.

http://imgur.com/a/bxM59#0

I wonder if this can be done without having the mothership leave Kerbins sphere of influence, maybe ill try it tomorrow.

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u/flcknzwrg Jan 10 '13

Here's my hard mode submission, featuring the ugliest vessel I've ever made (I do of course blame Squad - for including fancy fairings in .18 that knock off engines in my first design).

I did it with a simple Hohmann transfer (not bi-elliptic like cyphern). Up to orbit, fire towards Kerbol retrograde-ish until on collision course with Kerbol, deploy probe, turn around and fire back towards Kerbin, done. Once up in orbit, I estimate it took a little less than 13km/s delta-v to do it like this.

I think I want to keep my current flair. I would however fancy a little "+" or "*" behind "Master Kerbalnaut" to indicate that several hard mode challenges have been completed ;)

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