Launch R3-001: Tereshkova 5 (LKO Satellite)

Year 1, day 93.
Project: Tereshkova.
Mission Objectives:

1. Place first artificial satellite into orbit around Kerbin.

Bob and his team have been busy developing a two-stage rocket capable of putting a 1T payload into KTO. New technologies include stability control, automated guidance, and solar cells.

Liftoff! Due to a parts shortage, launch clamps were unavailable for this mission.

Staging in this rocket is very crude, jettisoning the fairings simultaneously as the upper stage is deployed and ignited.

While the second stage was still burning, the experiments bay was opened and scientific data was transmitted back to Bob's scientists.

After SECO, the satellite was deployed, with its own engine and fuel to circularize on its own.

The upper stage is still visible as the satellite's kicker stage circularizes its orbit, successfully completing the mission.