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Here's an interesting puzzle. You left Earth on Oct 23rd 2010, and did a sling around Venus and are now arriving back at Earth. Because of the party on your return to Earth you didn't pay enough attention and missed a couple of important mid course corrections. You just noticed you are missing your home planet. :facepalm:
You don't have a lot of fuel and are now scrambling to try to figure a way to get back. You have enough air and supplies for another 25 months. :thumbup: What to do? It is possible. :hail:
Edit: Wanted to add that there are a couple of ways. One that is easy as far as navigation but very tight on fuel. The other is more complicated in navigation, gets you home a couple months sooner and has lots of fuel to spare. It would have been easy for me to preclude the former by having a few Kg less fuel but I left the fuel as is to see who can do which and if anyone can do both ways.
You don't have a lot of fuel and are now scrambling to try to figure a way to get back. You have enough air and supplies for another 25 months. :thumbup: What to do? It is possible. :hail:
Edit: Wanted to add that there are a couple of ways. One that is easy as far as navigation but very tight on fuel. The other is more complicated in navigation, gets you home a couple months sooner and has lots of fuel to spare. It would have been easy for me to preclude the former by having a few Kg less fuel but I left the fuel as is to see who can do which and if anyone can do both ways.
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BEGIN_DESC
Land on Earth within 25 months after start of scenario.
END_DESC
BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
System Sol
Date MJD 56187.4603485834
END_ENVIRONMENT
BEGIN_FOCUS
Ship 3
END_FOCUS
BEGIN_CAMERA
TARGET 3
MODE Extern
POS 22.88 19.18 1.18
TRACKMODE TargetRelative
FOV 12.73
END_CAMERA
BEGIN_SHIPS
3:DeltaGlider
STATUS Orbiting Earth
RPOS -66406853.33 -17571001.21 -10334260.59
RVEL 13456.017 1324.795 -1382.057
AROT 117.57 -75.18 -115.95
AFCMODE 7
PRPLEVEL 0:0.023000 1:0.079808
NAVFREQ 0 524 84 114
XPDR 6
PSNGR 2 3 4
TRIM -0.503000
AAP 0:0 0:0 0:0
END
END_SHIPS
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