Iron Hill Project Thread

Don't worry about the playback!
And I contacted my friends in the Lusophone thread right now...

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And those gravitational influences aren't helping! When i press Now, my trajcetory is severely affected, and now my orbit is very different, I'm not going to a polar orbit, but for a equatorial orbit. I don't recorded the correction, as it was very short, but tomorrow this gravitational "fights" may be a problem, so I'll adjust the orbits six or five hours before of the LOI...

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Hey! A partial solar eclipse is going to happen!
 
Okay, I've been quietly thinking about this, and wondered if maybe I should wait until Felipi and Mojoey return to Earth in the first week of April before posting...then I decided: oh, what the hell.

A tentative itinerary for the first days after setting down on Mercury:
MD=Mission Day
MD-1: Myself and the Geology team will assemble the habitat section. This consists of two command modules (they will be used as corridors), and the five bunk areas.

MD-2: Myself and the Solar team will assemble the utility section of the base. This includes another command module, the lab, and the wardroom.

MD-3: Myself and the Geology team will assemble the "stem": this is a series of four airlock connectors south of the command module. We will then add the rover hangars and workshop to the stem to complete the base.

MD-4: Solar team will climb the crater wall and construct a tram system for going outside the crater. (We might try using the crew elevator mesh from the XR-5;))

MD-5: Scopas mission, codename "Curioisity". The Geology team will board the Azure rover and make an excursion to nearby Scopas Crater. There they will investigate the radar "bright spots" found by MESSENGER, to determine if they really are water ice. Samples will be brought back to Iron Hill for study.

MD-6: Second Geology mission, codename "Proclivity". Geo team will make an excursion to a point 1 kilometer north of Iron Hill to collect soil samples and investigate an interesting rock formation

MD-7: First solar study mission, codename "Longevity". Solar studies team will drive the rover to the rim of Chao Meng Fu Crater. They will then climb the crater wall and set up a small research station (I'll be adding two life modules for a "mini-base"). "Longevity" will observe part of the Sun's buildup toward solar maximum.

MD-8: MESSENGER Inspection, codename "Relativity." All team members will launch Odyssey into orbit and rendezvous with the MESSENGER probe. Two crew members will EVA and conduct diagnostics on the craft to determine her condition and repair any damaged systems.

The task I am about to mention next will not happen until late January of 2013, a few weeks before Odyssey departs for Earth, and there will be many missions in between. This mission is codenamed "Tenacity", and will be the climax of the Iron Hill Project's first crew rotation. The entire crew (the solar team and I will be in the Azure rover, with the Geo team in a lunar buggy following behind) will drive to the solar station that was set up on day 7. There we will observe, up close and personal, a solar flare.

We will need serious radiation shielding, and that is a massive understatement. Also, the observations will be conducted in infra-red, so we won't really get to "see" it, except as a false-color image, followed by reams of computer data.
 
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Very interesting! I can't wait for the first days of this long mission!!!!!!

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For me, the first option is the best! And it's not a problem, just something that wasn't in my plans, but as the pilot of the Odyssey, all I can say is that We can do it!
 
Odyssey, Houston. Hold on, we have a better idea: just hold your course and don't worry about alignment until after you close up orbit. I expect your cross-range will be horrendous, but that Arrow has gobs of fuel. If she can do a fifteen-minute Mercury insertion burn and use only an eighth of a tank (as the simulations are predicting:)), then she ought to be able to handle a big alignment burn.

As long as your periapsis doesn't wander too far from the Moon, you should be fine. We're going to run a simulation tonight and get back to you.

Hang tight, Odyssey, you're doing great:thumbup:
 
Odyssey, Houston. That is one hell of a visual!:speakcool:
We show about 10 hours to LOI. (You might have wait until landing to update the clock.) I'm going to send you some final instructions:
After touchdown, I want you to release all 6 cargos and leave them on the pad. The Brighton mechanics will take it from there. Then you fellas go get something to eat and take a break for a couple days. God knows, you've earned it:thumbup:


On Sunday morning, I want you to go to Scenario editor and delete those cargos. Then you'll take off, align planes and burn for Earth. We'll be expecting you the following Friday, so I'll spend Thursday night fueling Chronus for the recovery mission.

Lydia: I'd like you to be my copilot for this one, since you stayed behind last time.

Again, great job, guys:)
 
TMac3000 said:
Odyssey, Houston. That is one hell of a visual!:speakcool:
We show about 10 hours to LOI. (You might have wait until landing to update the clock.) I'm going to send you some final instructions:
After touchdown, I want you to release all 6 cargos and leave them on the pad. The Brighton mechanics will take it from there. Then you fellas go get something to eat and take a break for a couple days. God knows, you've earned it:thumbup:


On Sunday morning, I want you to go to Scenario editor and delete those cargos. Then you'll take off, align planes and burn for Earth. We'll be expecting you the following Friday, so I'll spend Thursday night fueling Chronus for the recovery mission.

Lydia: I'd like you to be my copilot for this one, since you stayed behind last time.

Again, great job, guys:)
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Earned it hell...I've been floating from bulkhead to bulkhead doing tricks...:lol:
 
Odyssey, Houston. Good morning. We ran that model, and it looks like you'll miss your periapsis by several hours. But as long as you don't pass out of lunar SOI, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. What it does mean is that you'll do your insertion in two stages. In the first stage, you'll close up orbit and create an eccentric orbit with a periapsis of less than 500 km. The second stage will happen when you reach that altitude: that's where you will circularize, align, and deorbit.

Your cross range is going to be big, but the Moon is small, so the alignment burn should take about 1 minute. We'll talk to you soon;)
 
Wrong, I used a correction to spend some time to reach the Moon, the periapsis is going to happen soon. The current PeA is 14.43M, but is enough for a parking orbit, waiting for the burn...

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Going to the chat, it's an important moment, so we should use it!
 
Hey Team! We did it! The Odyssey is around the Moon. The LOI was a sucess!!!!!
 
Well done, Odyssey!

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Odyssey, Houston. Status Report.
(Sorry for leaving chat, but I had a client)
 
Don't worry!
PeA:18.80K
ApA:17.37M
Speed:323m/s (SOOOO SLOW!!!!)
Altitude:15 820 Km
Eccentricity:0.8316
Inclination:131.74 (Yeah, I'm in a retrograde orbit, but it's not too much important in the Moon)

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Crossing the original PeA altitude:14M, aproximately...
 
Felipi1205 said:
Don't worry!
PeA:18.80K
ApA:17.37M
Speed:323m/s (SOOOO SLOW!!!!)
Altitude:15 820 Km
Eccentricity:0.8316
Inclination:131.74 (Yeah, I'm in a retrograde orbit, but it's not too much important in the Moon)

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Crossing the original PeA altitude:14M, aproximately...
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Could you extend the landing legs next time we pass into sunlight, I want to check some of the hydraulic connections, make sure she wont go *crunch* when we land ;)
 
We're in the sunlight now, let's test it!

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They're working! Let's retract them back!

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We're going to pass in the far side of the Moon, so the contact speed is going to be slow. We are going to maintain contact with the Luna-OB1, and the station will send the data back to Earth...

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I need of a picture of every member of the crew for a special post in the new blog.
This is me:
picture.php

And you guys?
 
VVuaL.jpg

Sorry for the horrible quality, it was a webcam shot
the emblem on the hat is a Space Shuttle, it's my favorite hat of course :P
 
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