My mission !!!warning, many pics!!!

[Bj]

Mission Highlights; This mission was to send a 900 kg's of Nuclear Wast past our solar system, (just because) BTW, I had the dgIV set to fuel consumption to default: ISS & moon (Rules where, No docked fueling)

So obviously, I couldn't get enough speed with the amount of fuel I had, (I also could have docked and got fuel but thats cheating) So I used the Shiny Tank Add-on, to bring enough fuel along.

Heres a few pictures and how it went;


A shot of the payload on the ground;

I got the dgIV1 (dg1(above)) into orbit and docked with ISS, The ISS had about 500 kg's of fuel so I drained about 250 kg into dg1's tanks,



I launched the Endeavor with Shiny tank payload and docked it with ISS,
A shot from the wing of Endeavor while docked to ISS;

After I released the tank from the cargo bay and docked it to the ISS, I reentered the Endeavor;

and landed Successfully;

Then back with the Dg1, Un-docked from the current position, and re-docked on to the tank, Releasing the tank from the ISS, after putting a little distance from the ISS, I started transferring, and burning;

after about 30-50 mins (sorry, no exact time) of steady burning, with turbo pump on, and almost spent the entire, shiny tank, (only 50-100 kg left) but finally managed to get the suns escape velocity, (the entire burn time, I couldnot just let the auto pilot run prograde, I had to manually hold it because of the off center thrust) and then un-docked with the tank and sent the wast on its way;

and turned around to get back home;

It took a while to get up to speed;

So trying to get home, I spent all the fuel to stay within earths gravity, SO, I launched a rescue dgIV(dg2);

I got the rescue dg2 up to dg1's orbit and docked;

And returned to low earth orbit;

I transfered remaining fuel (wasn't much left ) and undocked;

and came home separately,

End result;

BARELY-successful mission; after about 1,786,047 kg of fuel, to get a 900 kg object past the suns escape velocity, after I took the last picture I looked where the cargo was at, and on the orbit MFD, it had an Ecc of .9750 in Suns orbit,

After all that;

Lucky its only a sim (USA would be mad at me if they found out that I spent 1,786,047 kg of fuel and still didn't reach the objective

Of course, I could have just used a launcher or something, but at least it was fun

*Note; I used to have a bunch of smiles with this post but it said I am limited to 15 pics,

 

[Tex]

Most excellent thread!! 2 thumbs WAY up!

I'll set it so you can have more images in one post.

 

[Bj]

Most excellent thread!! 2 thumbs WAY up!

I'll set it so you can have more images in one post.

thanks

 

[Bj]

Actually, I think Ill start a Monthly mission-in-pic thread, just to keep myself busy :lol:

 

[HiPotOk1978]

I am surprised no one here susgested thrust vectoring your engines to deal with the big damn gas tank u had.

 

[Andy44]

You could've made it if you had put the waste onto a course to slingshot past Jupiter. Given the massive energy you had already given it, Jupiter's gravity would have easily hurled it out of the solar system. But aiming for Jupiter with a purely ballistic payload is a very tough thing to do. You'd have to use a small upper stage to do course corrections to make sure you nail the slingshot just right.

 

[willy88]

You could've made it if you had put the waste onto a course to slingshot past Jupiter. Given the massive energy you had already given it, Jupiter's gravity would have easily hurled it out of the solar system. But aiming for Jupiter with a purely ballistic payload is a very tough thing to do. You'd have to use a small upper stage to do course corrections to make sure you nail the slingshot just right.

Why not just slam it into Jupiter, then?

 

[Andy44]

Well, what fun would that be, now?

 

[eveningsky339]

Why not just slam it into Jupiter, then?

Hmmm, you have a point there...

Why not fire it into Jupiter with a giant HARP?

 

[Jarvitä]

Hmmm, you have a point there...

Why not fire it into Jupiter with a giant HARP?

Because you'd just get radioactive waste over a large portion of the Earth's surface if you attempted to fire it at that velocity? :rofl:

 

[Cobalt]

Because you'd just get radioactive waste over a large portion of the Earth's surface if you attempted to fire it at that velocity? :rofl:

And that sort of thing absolutely ruins your property value.