"Macht Den Weltraum Frei!"
West Kermany acquires Rover and makes successful test on Kerbin.
Mission aptly named "Duna 1".
Today West Kermany succesfully conducted a powered descent on Kerbin. A Kerman A5 Volksrakete carried the standard Rover/Lander into an orbit (rover acquired under the Marshal Plan), then made a safe landing using powered descent and parachutes.
In orbit, the spaceship had a 90% full FLT 800 tank remaining. This would be enough to accelerate to another planet, and opens up the way for interplanetary missions, if the Bundesrepublik authorizes more money for space flight.
Korst Schindler, Raketenversuchsabteilung
First, I want to thank
Ulminati & the Kenish Space Program for some nice ideas, which helped us to build this nice rocket
Download ship:
Volksrakete ( requires
CleverBobCat mod )
The A5 Volksrakete, a lightweight vehicle that is able to reach other planets.
Duna 1 takes into the sky.
Zurück in den Weltraum.
At 18.000m, side boosters were discarded, time to get into orbit.
Orbital insertion stage is a bit tricky, needs a lot of RCS and practice with the controls.
But the rocket can complete orbital insertion with almost a full FLT 800 tank left - that's the double 1m tank -
We expect that's more than enough for interplanetary flight.
We let the ship complete one orbit at 100km, then we decelarate for a landing ..
.. anywhere on the brown part of Kerbin.
Approaching landing area.
We aim for a landing site in the Kobi Desert.
Descent rate on Kerbin is HIGH, and ship is pretty hard to control.
Opening the parachute, that part was a lot more wobbly than we expected, you really feel the 9.81 m/s^2 of Kerbin.
We drop the reserve RCS, which is intended to serve as a weight during descent ( the craft is really light ).
Braking with thrusters like mad (Kerbins gravity is a lot different to the Mun, and we feel it)
The chute opens up finally. This stunt won't do on the Mun, we know
Before final touchdown, we still brake a bit with the thrusters.
Touchdown - ohne probleme.
Deployment of the Solar Panels, even if they are not needed on Kerbin.
The landing site in the Kobi Mountains.