The second (and sadly, last!) landing site for the Pathfinder 1 probe has been selected – right in the middle of what is being called the “De Grasse Sea.”
This should be a good (and hopefully hard to miss) location for the second probe, which was designed for water landings (it even floats!)
The first landing site on Laythe has been chosen! An island that KSEA is calling “Island 1” has been chosen as the first landing site as topography suggests it is the largest and flattest surface. The mostly liquid surface of Laythe may make landing… tricky.
Simulations show that the best orbit for releasing the landing probes is 200k, so Pathfinder 1 adjusts it’s orbit accordingly – and the probe is away!
The probe fires its orbital manuevering rockets and before long begins to rocket to the surface! 
“Calculations look like they were near perfect! It’s going to set down right where we thought, on the shores of Island One – the one that looks a bit like a bunny!”
-Gene
The probe’s parachute deploys, and it slowly drifts to the surface!
Onboard cameras transmit stunning video back to Kerbin!
Pathfinder 1’s first probe is a complete success! Once on the surface the suite of sensors record and transmit vital information about Laythe back to Kerbin!
“Remarkable! I can’t wait to look at this data we’re getting back!”
-Robart, at Mission Control
Pathfinder 7 is announced – this mission will attempt what Pathfinder 4 sought to do, deliver 3 sophisticated, yet tiny, rovers to the surface of Eve!
Pathfinder 1 manuevers to enter a polar orbit of Laythe at an altitude of 242k. This will be an ideal orbit to release the orbital scanner probe!
The orbital scanner ejects from the Tri-Probe mount…
… extends it’s solar array and begins mapping the surface!
Once a sufficient scan is complete, KSEA will determine the ideal landing coordinates for the two probes onboard Pathfinder 1!
In the meantime, Pathfinder 1 is instructed to reduce its orbit to 60k… an orbit KSEA engineers and scientists predict will be the best to deploy the surface probes from!
After a long journey, Pathfinder 1 reaches Jool!
Once in orbit, another small maunever is done to intercept Pathfinder 1’s target: Laythe!
Pathfinder 6 performs an adjustment to it’s approach to Plock – so far so good!
KSEA regrets to inform the public that Pathfinder 4 and Pathfinder 5 have both overshot their targets, failing to achieve orbit. It would seem speed is the problem, as those probes were simply traveling too fast to be slowed down by single NERV engine – the future of the Pathfinder program however remains in doubt.
Of even greater concern is Explorer 5, already en route to Duna, built on the Pathfinder frame! Scientists think that Explorer’s much lower transfer speed will allow the craft to slow down in time – but time will tell.
A Jool IV rocket blasts off from the Space Center carrying Pathfinder 6 – the first mission to Plock!
Pathfinder 6 speeds away from Kerbin! It should arrive at Plock in just 6 years if estimates are correct the burn went to plan, and an orbit of Plock should be possible!
Construction begins on the next Pathfinder probe, Pathfinder 6 – heading to the distant world of Plock.
Plock will be the furthest mission ever attempted! Pathfinder 6 will be virtually identical to Pathfinder 5, with the same lander layout as well.
(Note: The Patch Department notes in the fine print that no one has ever seen Plock before, and as such Moho may have been used in the patch design)
Pathfinder 5 launches for Moho!
The fairing deploys and the crafts burns into a stable orbit!
Pathfinder 5 will arrive at Moho in 107 days!
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