Construction begins on Aurora 25 – the mission to bring crew, a lander, and a rover to DSV-4 Endeavor! The mission details including destination and crew will be announced shortly!
DSV-4 Endeavor is readied for launch at KSC! The Horizon-class Deep Space Vehicle will be the third re-usable deep space vehicle in KSEA’s fleet!
“Awesome, we have a fleet now! “
-Jeb
The powerful Jool-7 Rocket blasts off, and slowly lifts Endeavor to orbit!
After the solid rockets eject, the 7 primary engines circularize the orbit, until Endeavor reaches a 100k orbit!
“We’ll call that another success ladies and gentlemen! Endeavor has reached orbit!”
-Gene
Rumors have it Moho will be the destination for Endeavor… although exact plans have not been announced!
While actually under construction for quite some time, a name hadn’t been chosen yet! Endeavor will be a “Horizon Class” DSV, that is, almost identical to DSV-3 Horizon!
Endeavor’s name is from the Crew Shuttle Endeavor, which has been out of service for some time now!
“I miss flying those Crew Shuttles… when are they going to be cleared for flights again!?”
-Edan
Unfortunately, it may be quite some time for them to get cleared again – the basic design of a spaceplane makes it difficult to create a design with multiple abort options throughout the flight. In fact, there are no launch aborts available right off the launch pad!
“The engineers are working on it! No promises though!”
-Gene
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