Pathfinder 4 blasts off, heading for Eve!
After the orbital stage detaches the next stage fires….
Until finally the Nerv engine finishes the burn to Eve! The trip will be a fast one, only 153 days until orbit! (No need to save fuel if the craft isn’t coming back!)
Construction begins on the next Pathfinder probe, pathfinder 4! This probe will be heading to Eve with an aquatic landing probe, a surface probe, and an experimental rover probe!
Edan, Glenica, and Sean gather their scientific findings and transfer to Explorer 3 – it’s time to head home!
We have a little extra fuel so we’re going to try a quicker return home!
-Edan
The next spacecraft scheduled to visit Duna is the automated Refueling Vehicle, which will provide the vital fuel needed for Explorer 5, the next crewed mission to Duna!
The return to Kerbin should take exactly one year!
I’ve arrived at Minmus! You can almost smell the mint!
-Mirphe
Mirphe pilots the ACV to Harmony Space Station!
“Docking complete!”
-Mirphe
“Does this mean we’re going back to Kerbin? I’ll miss the view!”
-Tamre
Piloted by Mirphe, an ACV launches from KSC carrying Orlas and Kimmy to Kerbin Spaceport to lead the team working on the Cyclotron!
The Mk7 ACV is proving to be a very reliable and capable space vehicle!
Mirphe rendevouses the ACV with Kerbin Spaceport…
…and docks! Orlas and Kimmy transfer over, and then Kimmy undocks the ACV!
Time for the second part of the ACV mission… a quick trip to Minmus!
-Mirphe
KSEA is sending Mirphe to Harmony Space Station at Minmus to recover Tamre, who has been taking part in one of KSEA’s long term space habitation studies. (KSEA again stressed that this did not mean anyone forgot about Harmony Space Station or Tamre onboard!)
The Cargo Payload Vehicle (CPV) launches!
The CPV was designed as a re-usable unmanned cargo pod that can deliver science payloads to Kerbin Spaceport and then return them to Kerbin for study.
The CPV rendezvouses with Kerbin Spaceport!
Docking is a success!
Looks like a good connection! Once the rest of the science crew gets here we should be able to see what this Cyclotron can do!
-Shepely (on board Kerbin Spaceport)
Indeed, the science crew has already been selected! Orlas, recently back from Duna will be the lead scientist, with Shepely and Kimmy joining the team!
The Frontier 3 probe launched to Neidon 6 years ago has stopped transmitting. KSEA engineers and scientists think that the crafts solar arrays just weren’t sufficient for transmitting that far out. Just a few weeks ago Frontier 3 was still transmitting at near full strength thanks to the Deep Space Network KSEA has been building, however.
A probe is already on its way to Neidon, Pathfinder 2!
Explorer 5 departs for Duna! This is the first interplanetary journey using cryogenic stasis, it’s hoped that the technology will allow for sending Kerbals to the farthest reaches of the solar system!
The third major component of Kerbin Spaceport blasts off!
This addition completes the science expansion for the Spaceport, adding a cyclotron particle accelerator, which will help study particle physics and other strange science in space!
The first and second stages finish firing, leaving the Cyclotron in orbit! Automated systems will guide it to Kerbin Spaceport.
The Cyclotron moves closer, and closer…
Until it finally connects! The maneuvering system ejects, and the station’s new science core is ready to go!
Back on Kerbin the first Science payload is readied!
The massive Jool Rocket blasts off from Cape Kerman!
Once in space, the aerodynamic fairing deploys!
The engines fire and the massive space station orbits Kerbin!
Almost identical to Phase One of the Spaceport, Phase Two has two giant fuel reserves, a habitat area, and a docking section. It also features a science lab and a cupola, and of course giant solar arrays to power all the onboard systems! Once docked Kerbin Spaceport will dwarf even Kerbin Space Station, making it the largest object ever assembled in space – nearly as long as two Vehicle Assembly Buildings!
Phase Two arrives at Kerbin Spaceport! The RCS systems fire, and the two Spaceport components get closer and closer, until….
Connection! History is made as the Kerbin Spaceport goes fully online! Supply ships ready themselves to launch to the next two orbital fuel reserves, and KSEA prepares to launch Phase Three – the new Science component!
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