Constructions starts on the next Pathfinder 5, the next deep space probe!
Pathfinder 5 will launch to Moho, and carries 3 identical surface landers!
Year 9, Day 388 (Pathfinder 4 Launches!)
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!)
Year 9, Day 367 (Construction Begins on Pathfinder 4!)
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!
Year 9, Day 290 (Explorer 3 Leaves Duna Spaceport!)
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!
Year 9, Day 289 (Mirphe arrives at Minmus!)
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
Year 9, Day 279 (ACV Carrying Science Crew to Kerbin Spaceport & Minmus Rescue Launches!)
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!)
Year 9, Day 277 (Science Mission for Kerbin Spaceport Launches!)
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!
Year 9, Day 276 (Frontier 3 Neidon Probe Lost)
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!
Year 9, Day 262 (Explorer 5 Leaves Kerbin for Duna!)
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!
Year 9, Day 248 (Kerbin Spaceport Phase 3 Launches!)
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!
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