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Colonizing Duna... and Beyond

Launch 5-16: Gilly Lander

4/1/2016

 
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Year 5, Day 193.
Mission Objectives:
  1. Land on Gilly.
  2. Recover scientific data from Gilly.

While one of the design goals for DEUCES was to be able to boost-back into LKO after transferring a payload to another planet, it's currently difficult to do that directly from launch. Instead, we'll just send a DEUCES to Gilly and attempt a landing. This is purely a scientific mission (although we will be paid for it).
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Payload: A Bunch of Science
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Lifter: DLSv3 Atlas DEUCES mk II
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No boosters for this launch.
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With no sizeable payload, the craft quickly reached SECO and coasted to circularization.
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Verifying long range comms before performing ejection burn.
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Post-burn telemetry confirms we are go for encounter.
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Planning the Gilly encounter.
To be continued...

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