The Explorer 1 probe reaches Eve! Mission Control has some spotty communications issues at first, but a slight readjustment of the Kerbin LongSat allows uninterrupted communications. 
At a 100k orbit, the probe is instructed to ciruclarize orbit – success! Onboard equipment begins testing – initial readings indicate that Eve is big, and quite purple!
It’s now just 40 days until the Explorer probe encounters Eve! No one is quite sure what they’ll find, but the probe’s sensors are ready to transmit its findings back to Kerbin! Meanwhile on Kerbin, work starts on Aurora 6’s construction. KSEA is hopefuly a Kerbal can set foot on Mun before the end of the year!
Kerbin is now just a pale blue dot as Explorer 1 flings toward Eve, traveling at 8564.3 m/s…
Explorer 1 blasts off from Cape Kerman!
The launch isn’t the prettiest, but an 80k orbit is achieved.
“Good enough!”
-Jeb
At the last minute, someone notices that a burn to Eve will be much faster, so the mission plan is quickly altered… the burn to Eve fires, and Explorer heads out of the Kerbin System! The probe will reach interplanetary space in just 4 days…
Construction begins on the Explorer 1 Space Probe. The design is heavily based on the KerbSat Long Range Communications Satellite, launched earlier in Year 2.
The probe has sensors and a Mission Plaque to say “hello” to any friendly creatures it may encounter! The probe will be launched on a Discovery 5, and should be ready quite soon.
The planned mission is a flyby of Duna and Eve, and anything else it might encounter along the way! If the initial launch is successful, and communications are maintained, current plans are to launch multiple Explorer Probes to investigate many of Kerbin’s neighbors!
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