Scenario Moon to Mercury

[flytandem]

Here's a fun scenario that has a ship departing the Moon then dropping to Earth and out to Mercury. Only basic ability with TransX is needed. (like a paint by numbers) The description in the scenario explains what to do.

BEGIN_DESC
This elegant moon to earth gravitywell scenario starts just after the eject from Brighton Beach on the moon. It is an outward eject away from Earth to delay the arrival at a low Pe at Earth in order to have the date of the Pe to coincide with Earth being at a node with Mercury. So carefully warp ahead to just before the Pe at Earth. 

Just before the Pe at Earth, set up a TransX maneuver with

Prograde=3550.
Date=55324.3165
Outward=0.
PlaneChange=0.

This allows the Earth eject to combine the dropping of the perihelion and plane change to match Mercury's orbit.

What remains for you to figure out will be a retrograde burn near the Pe to synchronize with Mercury one orbit later. Good luck.
END_DESC

BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
  System Sol
  Date MJD 55313.2344447245
END_ENVIRONMENT

BEGIN_FOCUS
  Ship 4
END_FOCUS

BEGIN_CAMERA
  TARGET 4
  MODE Cockpit
  FOV 60.00
END_CAMERA

BEGIN_MFD Left
  TYPE User
  MODE TransX
  Ship  4
  FNumber 3
  Int 1
  Orbit True
  Vector  596871.424744 1870600.37457 552496.833252
  Vector  -1551.1967527 1054.34378784 1582.65233932
  Double  4.90279493298e+012
  Double  55313.2344447
  Handle Moon
  Handle NULL
  Handle NULL
Select Target
 0 Escape
Autoplan
0 0
Plan type
0 0
Plan
0 1
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 0
Select Minor
 0 None
Manoeuvre mode
0 0
Base Orbit
0 0
Prograde vel.
 0  0
Man. date
 0  55313.2344446
Outward vel.
 0  0
Ch. plane vel.
 0  0
Intercept with
0 0
Orbits to Icept
0 0
Graph projection
0 0
Scale to view
0 0
Advanced
0 0
Pe Distance
 0  2085600
Ej Orientation
 0  0
Equatorial view
0 0
Finvars
  Finish BaseFunction
  Int 2
  Orbit True
  Vector  -358652846.566 -19794357.8629 -110325945.377
  Vector  -584.797584063 -5.19780544189 -400.711231679
  Double  4.03503234902e+014
  Double  55313.2286524
  Handle Earth
  Handle Moon
  Handle NULL
Select Target
 0 Escape
Autoplan
0 0
Plan type
0 2
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 1
Select Minor
 0 None
Manoeuvre mode
0 0
Base Orbit
0 0
Prograde vel.
 0  0
Man. date
 0  55313.2344372
Outward vel.
 0  0
Ch. plane vel.
 0  0
Intercept with
0 0
Orbits to Icept
0 0
Graph projection
0 0
Scale to view
0 0
Advanced
0 0
Prograde vel.
 0  0
Eject date
 0  55313.2344121
Outward vel.
 0  0
Ch. plane vel.
 0  0
Finvars
  Finish BaseFunction
  Int 0
  Orbit False
  Handle Sun
  Handle Earth
  Handle Mercury
Select Target
 0 Mercury
Autoplan
0 0
Plan type
0 2
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 0
Select Minor
 0 None
Manoeuvre mode
0 0
Base Orbit
0 1
Prograde vel.
 0  0
Man. date
 0  55313.2344347
Outward vel.
 0  0
Ch. plane vel.
 0  0
Intercept with
0 0
Orbits to Icept
0 0
Graph projection
0 0
Scale to view
0 0
Advanced
0 0
Finvars
  Finish BaseFunction
END_MFD

BEGIN_MFD Right
  TYPE User
  MODE TransX
END_MFD


BEGIN_SHIPS
4:DeltaGlider
  STATUS Orbiting Moon
  RPOS 596863.98 1870605.44 552504.43
  RVEL -1551.198 1054.339 1582.651
  AROT 45.45 26.65 -35.02
  RCSMODE 2
  PRPLEVEL 0:0.872 1:0.982
  NAVFREQ 402 94 0 0
  XPDR 8
  RCOVER 1 1.0000
END
END_SHIPS

BEGIN_ExtMFD
END

BEGIN_VistaBoost
END

 

[Linguofreak]

Wow. That ought to be hard. I remember doing a Mercury -> Earth flight once, and only having enough DV to make it because I could use Earth's atmosphere for aerobraking.