On it’s way to a 100km parking orbit to await the lander craft to join it later.

It’ll be carrying 3 Kerbals, a science lab and an array of science experiments to conduct along the way.

Next stop: Duna!

  • ilovecheeseOPEnglish
    4•1 year ago

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    The Duna 1 Science Vessel command and lander on route to Duna!

    • ilovecheeseOPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

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      Duna 1 parked in an 80km equatorial orbit around it’s namesake.

          • ilovecheeseOPEnglish
            4•1 year ago

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            Just look at that brown scenery and brown rocks. Oh lets not forget the brown sky!

            At least Blll is feeling patriotic.

      • @JTheDocEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Ship looks pretty fly man, especially like the engine and panel arrangements! :)

        Have yet to use chutes for Duna, didn’t know what the thickness of the air was there to guage it!

        • ilovecheeseOPEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Thanks man! But I took a lot of inspiration from Mike Aben for this one!

          I cut a little close to my solar generation/battery budget with this one. The batteries only just cover a full lab of data transfer, and the panels take a good half a day to fully charge the batteries along side running the lab constantly. But it did it’s job!

          A rule of thum for 'chutes on Duna is: 1 radial per ton. Courtesy of Mike Aben once again! This lander was about 8.5 tons and bounced a little on landing with 8 'chutes.