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Duna and Beyond

Launches: Foragers V-XVI

12/31/2016

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​Mission Objectives:
  1. Transmit thermal data from space high above Kerbin
  2. Transmit thermal data from space around Mun
  3. Achieve orbit around Mun
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This series of Forager launches was meant to test new guidance software, allowing a craft to calculate and perform orbital manouvres autonomously. This test mission will launch, circularize, complete one orbit, then perform a deorbit burn.

This test serves as both preparation for our upcoming crewed program, and for enhanced satellite deployment capability.

Year 1, Day 254 - Year 2, Day 58: Foragers V-XV

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Foragers V-XV were all pretty much the same: they all failed to reach stable orbits due to various software glitches. It took a lot of launches before the last glitch was finally snuffed out.

Year 2, Day 81: Forager XVI

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Forager XVI started out like its predecessors, until it came time to perform its circularization burn.
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Once in a stable orbit, it deployed its antenna and began tracking the Sun.
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After completing one orbit, the probe re-oriented itself and performed a de-orbit manoeuvre.
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Satellite de-orbit confirmed.
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