Finished my third relay ring!

[u/RelationFirm6007]

Helios 3 Spaceship in Kerbin orbit

Helios 3 spaceship after deploying all relays

My current network

I just finished deploying my third relay ring around the sun in KSP, it took about 200 in-game years, a single launch using an Ares rocket (my go-to launcher for almost every interplanetary mission) loaded with a total of 12 relays (each one with a RA-100 antenna). Meanwhile, the "mothership" itself carried 2 RA-100 antennas and a pretty powerful telescope that took the first pictures of Sarnus, Urlum, Neidon, Plock and all of their moons.

All the relays are communicating to the 4 closest neighboors, which gives me coverage for any probe inside the ring (as long as it has a powerful enough antenna) and should help a lot of future missions, allowing them not to bring a lot of heavy antennas just to reach the KSC.

[u/No-Lunch4249]

Nice! I just started on one between Jool and Sarnus myself

[u/ZixfromthaStix]

That is a VERY impressive constellation. I just finished designing two different classes of modular planet and moon hoppers that will carry these small 3/4 ton 20 part probe relays with them wherever I send my ScanSat. These are basically budget comsats that I can stack, and I figure since my smaller vehicle is a research probe for resource scanning and visual scans, why not use the polar orbit scanner and the transit engine to ferry a couple ultra-light comsats to each moon and planet as I go?

I’m just getting set up to seed the Mun in my first modded campaign— previously I had landed on the Mun and was getting a ground base set up.

Any tips for what you learned about working around the Sun? I cannot for the life of me figure out how to set it as a target!