HiPotOk1978
ReFuel L.L.C CEO
This is a mission that is still going on, but I haven't quite finished it...
My mission idea came with I was talking with Epsilon on Orbiter IRC channel and my idea was how much of the solar system could I see so here it is
Mission ships are noted as Donovan and DGIV-01 to 05. Donovan is Eplison's innerplantery ship and DGIV are DGIVs with Mark V engines, Fuel setting for a trip to Earth's moon and 14 days of O2 for a full crew of 5...
4 external tanks from Space Station Building Blocks were also brought along for the ride to extend the ranges of the DGIV's and when on their missions also serve as a 'radio relay satellite' the 9.6t and the 20t onboard each of the tanks represent the max fuel load on the mission for the delta gliders
Earth Departure
Sept 30 2069 5:15:51 UTC
MJD 77019.2189
Venus Arrival
Feb 1 2070 20:31:40 UTC
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:02:20
Power up sequence and preflight checklist
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:07:00
Unlocking
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:10:00
Deorbit Burn #1 Orbit adjusted to 376 x 150
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070
21:43:00
Delta Glider crew reports outside temps during decent peaked at 52c with no sign of atmosphere pressure. Crew
also on the dark side of Venus Altitude from surface estimated at approx 152km
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:56:16
Deorbit Burn #2 Orbit adjusted to 150 x 78. Entry Interface expected and planned for sun lit side of Venus.
Expected trajectory will take crew to approx 45km altitude. Atmosphere Gas Capture (AGC) planed for sampling to
take place from 70km down to 45km glide
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 22:47:00
DGIV-01 released flag at 49.92km altitude and returned to orbit
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 23:00:00
DGIV-01 returned to 270km orbit. Deployed flags location will be unknown until following orbit can pick up on
the transmitter
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 23:12:52
Lighting strikes observed from orbit nearing the terminator
DGiV-01
Feb 02 2070 01:17:23
Glider crew was not able to pick up beacon from flag. Location unknown and believed that probe did not survive
trip down to surface (time acceleration caused flag to bounce of into space)
DGIV-01
Feb 02 2070 07:47:36
Craft refueled at fuel tank A and returned to docking port 1
Donovan
Feb 02 2070 08:30:00
Surface probe and flag both considered lost after continued searching. Crew continues to view Venus weather
patterns from orbit. Planed date for Trans Mercury Injection is 77208.484 with arrival at 77284.938
Donovan
Apr 07 2070 08:05:26
Trans Mercury Injection burn #1 Venus orbit adjusted to 331.4 x 5042
Donovan
Apr 08 2070 01:04:22
Trans Mercury Injection burn #2 escape velocity from Venus reached
Donovan
Jun 23 2070 17:11:00
Polar orbit of mercury established
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:10:00
Power up sequence and preflight checklists
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:15:11
Undocking
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:18:21
Retro thust to null out orbital velocity
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:24:33
Hover engine start to slow decent
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:30:12
Hover engines restarted to slow decent to 80m/s
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:39:58
Landing gear hydraulics powered on, GO on flight computer decent and landing
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:41:34
Gear Down
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:42:10
Landing Mercury base 72.123 N 62.457 N
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:44:20
Long Range Antenna extended for broadcast back to ReFuel Corportate Headquaters. Antenna set to heading 310.417
pitch 22.453 realative to DGIV-02's orientation on Mercury Surface
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:48:12
Donald McCole first ReFuel employee to leave his footprints on Mercury
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 22:33:12
Launch from surface to parking orbit
DGIV-02
Jun 24 2070 01:12:55
Docking to Donovan, refueling procedures skipped at this time
Donovan
Jun 24 2070 01:16:02
Trans Mars Injection burn, DGIV-02 refueled and docked for storage. Arrival date 77468.823
Donovan
Sep 30 2070 06:00:00
Crew celebrates 1 year of exploring the inner solar system and being near completion of exploring the inner
planets. With only approx 84 days left until Mars Orbital Insertion
Donovan
Dec 23 2070 19:56:32
Mars Orbital Insertion using aerobraking and retro thrust orbit ~350 circular
DGIV-03
Dec 23 2070 20:32:15
Undock, and fly course to Deimos. Flight expected to take 6 hours
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 02:15:10
landing and planting of flag on Deimos
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 18:24:16
landing and planting of flag on Phobos
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 21:15:12
Landed on Mars 1 S x 35.930 E
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 21:20:00
Long Range Antenna targeted to Earth for live broadcast form the surface of Mars
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 21:56:40
Steven Samsung plants ReFuel flag into the dry rocky surface of Mars. Surface experiements follow collecting
rocks and scanning the location for possible underground water sources. Youngest member of the ReFuel Grand Tour
Mars team is John Bison who celebrated his 25th birthday during the grand tour flight of the inner solar system.
Geology experiements are not performed in the tight spaces of the Delta Glider, but instead loaded into glider
to be performed on Donovan in low orbit around Mars
DGIV-03
Dec 25 2070 22:44:00
Launch into Low Martion Orbit for docking with Donovan
DGIV-03
Dec 26 2070 09:22:50
Refueling procedures and storage of glider for Trans Jupiter Injection
Donovan
Dec 26 2070 10:45:27
Trans Jupiter Injection: Projected arrival date 78529.825
Donovan
Oct 30 2073 10:09:13
Jupiter orbital insertion
Donovan
Nov 06 2073 08:02:47
Europa Orbital Inserting
DGIV-04
Nov 08 2073 00:30:00
Powerup and Prelaunch sequence. Docking with Fuelpod for 15 day mission
DGIV-04
Nov 08 2073 08:55:00
Trans Io Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 08 2073 11:35:30
Transmission to Corporate HQ from transfer orbit discussing the science and exploration missions objectives to
news agencies. 3 man crew answer questions previously sent to them while still docked to Donovan. Transmission
lasts for 15 minutes. Will be the last transmission sent from a Delta Glider due to limitations with the
transmission power
DGIV-04
Nov 09 2073 7:35:33
Io Orbital Insertion
DGIV-04
Nov 11 2073 10:52:11
Trans Ganymede Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 13 2073 02:39:30
Ganymede Orbital Insertion. Insertion was retrograde
DGIV-04
Nov 13 2073 22:47:59
Trans Callisto Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 18 2073 19:29:03
Callisto Orbital Insertion
DGIV-04
Nov 19 2073 01:52:16
Trans Europa Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 22 2073 13:22:11
Europa Orbital Insertion
Donovan
Nov 22 2073 16:02:12
Trans Uranus Injection
Donovan
Oct 27 2078 01:44:00
Uranus Orbital Insertion Complete
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 12:47:37
Manouvers to the outer ring complete. Refueling procedures underway
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 13:16:20
Donovan Visual Spectrum Telescope being deployed by science crew. Their first target for viewing will be
Cordelia as a flyby of the first moon in our parking orbit for water processing from the rings. Navigation
expects passing within 900km of the moon and will be the best viewing for the telescope due to the fact that the
water capture hardware will still be offline and more than just one side of the moon will be visable.
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 14:47:00
Science director has decided with the additional length it will take to bring reactant mass up to full load for
a 3 year Trans Earth Injection burn that is will be feasable to launch DGIV-05 on its mission to Ariel. Crew
will consist of gliders pilot, and Geologist Ron Harris and Frank Samsung. Craft will be setting down in largest
known crater named Yangoor
DGIV-05
Nov 06 2078 15:06:00
Pilot preflight of craft and loading of supplies for mission. Expected duration of of flight approx 14 hours
Donovan Nov 06 2078 13:33:00 Ophelia tracking begins with Donovan telescope. Closest approach to craft
4370km. Tracking lasts for 4 minutes
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 15:38:00
Desdemona tracking beings with Donovan telescope. Ends 4 mintues later with the need to secure telescope before
entering large debris area of outer ring
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 15:46:38
Impacts on the outer hull detected as passing though rings debris
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 02:42:11
Trans Ariel Injection
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 03:25:00
Long Range Antenna deployed
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 11:50:30
Course Correction for Ariel approach
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 05:32:00
Ariel Orbital Insertion
DGIV-05
Nov 08 2078 05:49:00
Surface landing
DGIV-05
Nov 08 2078 06:02:00
Geologists Ron Harris and Frank Samsung first ReFuel Employees to sit foot on a Uranian moon. Ron Harris
recorded as saying "Here we are, near the edge of the vast emptyness of space beyond our own solar system. From
here we can bairly see the sun, it is so dim as we are so far away from our home. We don't come here to conquer,
or dominate, but we come here with the banner of peace and exploration, to challenge ourselves and our
technology to see how far it will take us and how far we can push ourselves to leave the cradle of our home
planet and visit the wonders that are the ingredients of the universe" Shortly after disembarking the glider,
the crew unloaded the JMC mining bot cargo and began activating the mining robots on their pre-programmed
program to explore the surface and sample the moons surface
DGIV-01
Nov 09 2078 08:52:12
Unlocking from Donovan and attachment to external tank via docking port
DGIV-01
Nov 09 2078 09:00:13
Trans Oberon Injection complete
DGIV-01
Nov 12 2078 02:09:31
Oberon Orbital Insertion
DGIv-01
Nov 12 2078 03:10:33
Ext Tank undocking
DGIV-01
Nov 12 2078 04:03:36
Touchdown at research site. First steps on Oberon by Peter Dawson and Greg Wren will be delayed for an 8 hour rest cycle before science mission will begin
Donovan
Nov 12 2078 5:15:22
DGIV-05 crew and radio relay onboard external tank are not responding on their radio freq. Radio blackout from a faulty satellite will result in the glider crew launching from the surface and docking with external tank and awaiting a transmission window for instructions on how to procede with mission. Expected max time for signal aquitation is another 4 hours max
(***Spoiler for those reading*** The external tank was in an unstable orbit around Ariel and crashed onto the surface) With onboard fuel DGIV-05 does not have enough fuel to meetup and dock with Donovan.)
My mission idea came with I was talking with Epsilon on Orbiter IRC channel and my idea was how much of the solar system could I see so here it is
Mission ships are noted as Donovan and DGIV-01 to 05. Donovan is Eplison's innerplantery ship and DGIV are DGIVs with Mark V engines, Fuel setting for a trip to Earth's moon and 14 days of O2 for a full crew of 5...
4 external tanks from Space Station Building Blocks were also brought along for the ride to extend the ranges of the DGIV's and when on their missions also serve as a 'radio relay satellite' the 9.6t and the 20t onboard each of the tanks represent the max fuel load on the mission for the delta gliders
Earth Departure
Sept 30 2069 5:15:51 UTC
MJD 77019.2189
Venus Arrival
Feb 1 2070 20:31:40 UTC
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:02:20
Power up sequence and preflight checklist
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:07:00
Unlocking
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:10:00
Deorbit Burn #1 Orbit adjusted to 376 x 150
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070
21:43:00
Delta Glider crew reports outside temps during decent peaked at 52c with no sign of atmosphere pressure. Crew
also on the dark side of Venus Altitude from surface estimated at approx 152km
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 21:56:16
Deorbit Burn #2 Orbit adjusted to 150 x 78. Entry Interface expected and planned for sun lit side of Venus.
Expected trajectory will take crew to approx 45km altitude. Atmosphere Gas Capture (AGC) planed for sampling to
take place from 70km down to 45km glide
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 22:47:00
DGIV-01 released flag at 49.92km altitude and returned to orbit
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 23:00:00
DGIV-01 returned to 270km orbit. Deployed flags location will be unknown until following orbit can pick up on
the transmitter
DGIV-01
Feb 01 2070 23:12:52
Lighting strikes observed from orbit nearing the terminator
DGiV-01
Feb 02 2070 01:17:23
Glider crew was not able to pick up beacon from flag. Location unknown and believed that probe did not survive
trip down to surface (time acceleration caused flag to bounce of into space)
DGIV-01
Feb 02 2070 07:47:36
Craft refueled at fuel tank A and returned to docking port 1
Donovan
Feb 02 2070 08:30:00
Surface probe and flag both considered lost after continued searching. Crew continues to view Venus weather
patterns from orbit. Planed date for Trans Mercury Injection is 77208.484 with arrival at 77284.938
Donovan
Apr 07 2070 08:05:26
Trans Mercury Injection burn #1 Venus orbit adjusted to 331.4 x 5042
Donovan
Apr 08 2070 01:04:22
Trans Mercury Injection burn #2 escape velocity from Venus reached
Donovan
Jun 23 2070 17:11:00
Polar orbit of mercury established
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:10:00
Power up sequence and preflight checklists
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:15:11
Undocking
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:18:21
Retro thust to null out orbital velocity
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:24:33
Hover engine start to slow decent
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:30:12
Hover engines restarted to slow decent to 80m/s
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:39:58
Landing gear hydraulics powered on, GO on flight computer decent and landing
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:41:34
Gear Down
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:42:10
Landing Mercury base 72.123 N 62.457 N
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:44:20
Long Range Antenna extended for broadcast back to ReFuel Corportate Headquaters. Antenna set to heading 310.417
pitch 22.453 realative to DGIV-02's orientation on Mercury Surface
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 18:48:12
Donald McCole first ReFuel employee to leave his footprints on Mercury
DGIV-02
Jun 23 2070 22:33:12
Launch from surface to parking orbit
DGIV-02
Jun 24 2070 01:12:55
Docking to Donovan, refueling procedures skipped at this time
Donovan
Jun 24 2070 01:16:02
Trans Mars Injection burn, DGIV-02 refueled and docked for storage. Arrival date 77468.823
Donovan
Sep 30 2070 06:00:00
Crew celebrates 1 year of exploring the inner solar system and being near completion of exploring the inner
planets. With only approx 84 days left until Mars Orbital Insertion
Donovan
Dec 23 2070 19:56:32
Mars Orbital Insertion using aerobraking and retro thrust orbit ~350 circular
DGIV-03
Dec 23 2070 20:32:15
Undock, and fly course to Deimos. Flight expected to take 6 hours
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 02:15:10
landing and planting of flag on Deimos
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 18:24:16
landing and planting of flag on Phobos
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 21:15:12
Landed on Mars 1 S x 35.930 E
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 21:20:00
Long Range Antenna targeted to Earth for live broadcast form the surface of Mars
DGIV-03
Dec 24 2070 21:56:40
Steven Samsung plants ReFuel flag into the dry rocky surface of Mars. Surface experiements follow collecting
rocks and scanning the location for possible underground water sources. Youngest member of the ReFuel Grand Tour
Mars team is John Bison who celebrated his 25th birthday during the grand tour flight of the inner solar system.
Geology experiements are not performed in the tight spaces of the Delta Glider, but instead loaded into glider
to be performed on Donovan in low orbit around Mars
DGIV-03
Dec 25 2070 22:44:00
Launch into Low Martion Orbit for docking with Donovan
DGIV-03
Dec 26 2070 09:22:50
Refueling procedures and storage of glider for Trans Jupiter Injection
Donovan
Dec 26 2070 10:45:27
Trans Jupiter Injection: Projected arrival date 78529.825
Donovan
Oct 30 2073 10:09:13
Jupiter orbital insertion
Donovan
Nov 06 2073 08:02:47
Europa Orbital Inserting
DGIV-04
Nov 08 2073 00:30:00
Powerup and Prelaunch sequence. Docking with Fuelpod for 15 day mission
DGIV-04
Nov 08 2073 08:55:00
Trans Io Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 08 2073 11:35:30
Transmission to Corporate HQ from transfer orbit discussing the science and exploration missions objectives to
news agencies. 3 man crew answer questions previously sent to them while still docked to Donovan. Transmission
lasts for 15 minutes. Will be the last transmission sent from a Delta Glider due to limitations with the
transmission power
DGIV-04
Nov 09 2073 7:35:33
Io Orbital Insertion
DGIV-04
Nov 11 2073 10:52:11
Trans Ganymede Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 13 2073 02:39:30
Ganymede Orbital Insertion. Insertion was retrograde
DGIV-04
Nov 13 2073 22:47:59
Trans Callisto Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 18 2073 19:29:03
Callisto Orbital Insertion
DGIV-04
Nov 19 2073 01:52:16
Trans Europa Injection
DGIV-04
Nov 22 2073 13:22:11
Europa Orbital Insertion
Donovan
Nov 22 2073 16:02:12
Trans Uranus Injection
Donovan
Oct 27 2078 01:44:00
Uranus Orbital Insertion Complete
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 12:47:37
Manouvers to the outer ring complete. Refueling procedures underway
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 13:16:20
Donovan Visual Spectrum Telescope being deployed by science crew. Their first target for viewing will be
Cordelia as a flyby of the first moon in our parking orbit for water processing from the rings. Navigation
expects passing within 900km of the moon and will be the best viewing for the telescope due to the fact that the
water capture hardware will still be offline and more than just one side of the moon will be visable.
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 14:47:00
Science director has decided with the additional length it will take to bring reactant mass up to full load for
a 3 year Trans Earth Injection burn that is will be feasable to launch DGIV-05 on its mission to Ariel. Crew
will consist of gliders pilot, and Geologist Ron Harris and Frank Samsung. Craft will be setting down in largest
known crater named Yangoor
DGIV-05
Nov 06 2078 15:06:00
Pilot preflight of craft and loading of supplies for mission. Expected duration of of flight approx 14 hours
Donovan Nov 06 2078 13:33:00 Ophelia tracking begins with Donovan telescope. Closest approach to craft
4370km. Tracking lasts for 4 minutes
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 15:38:00
Desdemona tracking beings with Donovan telescope. Ends 4 mintues later with the need to secure telescope before
entering large debris area of outer ring
Donovan
Nov 06 2078 15:46:38
Impacts on the outer hull detected as passing though rings debris
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 02:42:11
Trans Ariel Injection
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 03:25:00
Long Range Antenna deployed
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 11:50:30
Course Correction for Ariel approach
DGIV-05
Nov 07 2078 05:32:00
Ariel Orbital Insertion
DGIV-05
Nov 08 2078 05:49:00
Surface landing
DGIV-05
Nov 08 2078 06:02:00
Geologists Ron Harris and Frank Samsung first ReFuel Employees to sit foot on a Uranian moon. Ron Harris
recorded as saying "Here we are, near the edge of the vast emptyness of space beyond our own solar system. From
here we can bairly see the sun, it is so dim as we are so far away from our home. We don't come here to conquer,
or dominate, but we come here with the banner of peace and exploration, to challenge ourselves and our
technology to see how far it will take us and how far we can push ourselves to leave the cradle of our home
planet and visit the wonders that are the ingredients of the universe" Shortly after disembarking the glider,
the crew unloaded the JMC mining bot cargo and began activating the mining robots on their pre-programmed
program to explore the surface and sample the moons surface
DGIV-01
Nov 09 2078 08:52:12
Unlocking from Donovan and attachment to external tank via docking port
DGIV-01
Nov 09 2078 09:00:13
Trans Oberon Injection complete
DGIV-01
Nov 12 2078 02:09:31
Oberon Orbital Insertion
DGIv-01
Nov 12 2078 03:10:33
Ext Tank undocking
DGIV-01
Nov 12 2078 04:03:36
Touchdown at research site. First steps on Oberon by Peter Dawson and Greg Wren will be delayed for an 8 hour rest cycle before science mission will begin
Donovan
Nov 12 2078 5:15:22
DGIV-05 crew and radio relay onboard external tank are not responding on their radio freq. Radio blackout from a faulty satellite will result in the glider crew launching from the surface and docking with external tank and awaiting a transmission window for instructions on how to procede with mission. Expected max time for signal aquitation is another 4 hours max
(***Spoiler for those reading*** The external tank was in an unstable orbit around Ariel and crashed onto the surface) With onboard fuel DGIV-05 does not have enough fuel to meetup and dock with Donovan.)
