Greetings fellow Orbinauts,
this might seem as an easy challenge, but the completition isn't the only thing that matters here.
You are starting at CSSC in XR-2 mounted to HCLV. Your goal is to get to LEO, perform a TLI, land softly at Brighton Beach, take off and return to any base of your choice back on earth. Seems pretty easy, doesn't it?
Here is the trick. You have to use the expert settings on XR-2 and no refuelling is allowed (although you have the 2 tanks in payload bay). You also have to carry the CHM for the whole trip. And finally, you have to abandon the HCLV once you get to orbit (the HCLV must reentry again, we don't want any garbage in space, right? ), so the final LEO insertion has to be done with XR2 itself. I don't have any experience with LUA scripts, so we will have to rely on honesty.
I managed to do it on my first try, although it was really close (as you can see, I burned through all of my main fuel, most of rcs fuel and my coolant almost overheated during reentry... yes, I did some fatal mistakes)
Scenario file included in attachments, XR2 config file here: http://pastebin.com/Yvn6XmSc
this might seem as an easy challenge, but the completition isn't the only thing that matters here.
You are starting at CSSC in XR-2 mounted to HCLV. Your goal is to get to LEO, perform a TLI, land softly at Brighton Beach, take off and return to any base of your choice back on earth. Seems pretty easy, doesn't it?
Here is the trick. You have to use the expert settings on XR-2 and no refuelling is allowed (although you have the 2 tanks in payload bay). You also have to carry the CHM for the whole trip. And finally, you have to abandon the HCLV once you get to orbit (the HCLV must reentry again, we don't want any garbage in space, right? ), so the final LEO insertion has to be done with XR2 itself. I don't have any experience with LUA scripts, so we will have to rely on honesty.
I managed to do it on my first try, although it was really close (as you can see, I burned through all of my main fuel, most of rcs fuel and my coolant almost overheated during reentry... yes, I did some fatal mistakes)
Scenario file included in attachments, XR2 config file here: http://pastebin.com/Yvn6XmSc
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