[ZZ Smith Research]

Time of Launch: 10:52 AM

Team members present: Ethan Smith, Zach Zlotnick

Play by play:

The rocket was launched with the boosters and accelerated to around 300 m/s. A gravity turn was executed to give the craft a parabolic path and it was ensured that the heading of the rocket lined up with the velocity vector so that torques exerted by air resistance was minimized. This gravity, which turned into something that was anything but “slight,” eventually caused a major disproportion in the balancing of CW and CCW torques. Our rocket, as can be observed in the screenshots, ended up plummeting to the surface of the earth at obscene speeds that terrified Valentina Kerbal before her most unfortunate of fortunes. We regretfully will pay any imposed fines, although we never really liked Valentina.

Time of flight:

6 minutes 55 sec

Summary:

We were shockingly far away from our initial goals of this destructive mission. While we did not accomplish our goal, we did manage to almost bring the Kerbal back from 50,000m (but she exploded upon impact).

Opportunities, learnings:

We learned that although we used to be very close, this new design by ZZ was possibly one of the worst in Kerbal history, and Ethan will return as project manager in our next expedition of the unknown.

Strategies/ Timeline:

Tomorrow we going into orbit, boi. The loss of life was once again unfortunate, and few strides were made in science today at all. We just need to modify the flight plan of the previous rocket to allow successful orbit.

Milestones: killed Valentina

Available funds:

31,737

[ZZ Smith Research]

Team Name: ZZ Smith Research

Available Funds: 51,059

Vehicle Name: S.A.D.

Vehicle parts:

Part	Quantity	Price
TT-38K Radial Decoupler	3	600
MK1 Command Pod	1	600
FLT 400 Fuel tank	4	500
Stack Decoupler TR 18 A	2	400
LVT 30 Reliant liquid fuel engine	2	1100
MK16 Parachute	1	422
RT-10 Hammer Solid Fuel	3	400

 

Design Goals:

We took the design from our previous rocket that was sadly not able to quite make it into stable orbit as we initially hoped it would. In this one we added three boosters to give it an extra “kick” which will bring our kerbal to and from orbit. We have contracted ZZ's intelligence to craft this work of art.

Launch Goals:

We are hoping to make a feat for all kerbal-kind and to reach and return from the deadly orbit mission. We have failed many times previously, but this isn’t going to stop us from killing more kerbals if need be.

Pilot Plan:

The pilot will fly the craft and once it reaches 100 m/s he will begin to turn the craft to 10 degrees. This will cause gravity to bend the path of the rocket as it accelerates. Once the first stage runs out, the pilot will jettison the initial booster and fuel tanks and activate the second stage. The secondary booster will provide acceleration into space and from there the craft will burn into orbit. Hopefully enough fuel will be left to get home, in which case the pilot will have to keep the heat shield going against the atmosphere and use the parachute to not crash into the ground at high speed.