Launch 4-28: Moho Lander

Year 4, Day 355.
Mission Objectives:

1. Land on Moho's surface.

This is a high-speed encounter, which we've decided to try out nuclear engines on. This lets us get away with a single stage for transfer and circularization, reducing the size of the lifter required to get it out of the atmosphere.

Payload: lander probe.

Descent stage: Ant I

Upper stage: Nerva III

First stage: Mainsail

Liftoff.

Fairing separation.

First stage separation.

Performing circularization burn.

Testing lander cams while in orbit around Kerbin.

Later, nerds.

Pretty nice encounter.

Mission Status: on transfer orbit to Moho.