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Colonizing Duna... and Beyond

Gilly Lander and Eve KomSAT: Eve Encounters

4/7/2016

 
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Year 5, Day 383.
Previously, previously.

Our Gilly lander is approaching Eve. It needs to capture into orbit, then rendezvous with Gilly and land.
One problem we've identified is that the DEUCES lacks enough battery to transmit data to Kerbin. We're hoping that switching to a lower-power antenna when the KomSAT network is deployed will allow us to transmit data.
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Eve capture was nominal, now it's time to match inclination with Gilly and prepare for intercept.
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The craft will orbit Eve for a few days until its Gilly encounter.
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While we wait for the Gilly encounter, the KomSATs approach Eve for their capture.
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After capture, the first KomSAT is deployed.
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So we've put the DEUCES probe in an orbit with a period 4/3rds that of a 1300kmx1300km orbit (our target). Each time we come around to the periapsis we will release a probe and they will be equally spaced around their orbit once they circularize.
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EVE KomSAT 1 begins to circularize.
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KomSAT 2 circularizes.
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Finally, KomSAT 3 is deployed.
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Finally, KomSAT 3 circularizes.
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Our Eve relay network is complete!
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The lander finally got its encounter with Gilly, although the capture burn was on the night side. I've played KSP for nearly two years, and I'm pretty sure this is the first time i've ever been to Gilly!
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Lowering orbit before landing, although that probably wasn't necessary.
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All 20m/s of orbital velocity burned off, and it's time to prepare for the 12m/s suicide burn.
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Waiting...
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So it turns out when you land on Gilly, you bounce.
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Oh no, my precious science!
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Whatever, we landed successfully.
Mission Summaries:
  1. Deploy KomSAT network around Eve: success!
  2. Land on Gilly: success!
  3. Recover scientific data from Gilly: calling RemoteTech bug shenanigans on this one.

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