Ultimate Duna 6 voyage... Orbital pingpong is fun

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mun, min, duna, ike and eve flyby then return to kerbin suborbit... Actually threw in a kerbin flyby as a gravity assist between duna and eve. 3yr 160 days,
Fortunately had a LOT of fuel left for breaking as suborbital only seems to count if you arent at escape velocity even if you are going to hit the planet (periapsis was in the ground but there was no apo because it expected me to be flung back out from kerbin at ~4500m/s)

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59k ship makes 1.89mil. Profit!

[Caliban]

Pics?

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Unfortunately I play without steam overlay (using the .exe rather than launching in steam.) crashes a lot more frequently otherwise (memory I think)

Loaded it back up in steam to atleast grab the completed contract info
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=450020633

smallest parachute ontop of probe core + largest xenon tank + single ion engine + 2x xl solar arrays and a small reaction wheel with 4 light legs. Tucked in the middle sized aero shell ontop of the big rockomax fuel tank and skipper engine + 4 fins for stability.
the probes got around 10k delta but only accelerates around 0.8m/s. The main engine got it into a 100km orbit and started on its way to minmus first I didnt stop to orbit anything other than kerbin on the return leg... everything was course adjustments before entering SoI to get a better exit trajectory for the next target (minmus first was because its very easy to skim past minmus then do a <100m/s burn to flyby the mun, if you already arent going to pass it on the way back but the other way round is more complicated taking better timing and a plane change. the mun isnt that good for gravity assists so it still took a ~500m/s burn from the mun flyby to get to duna, a correction on course to duna allowed my to pass ike just on the limits of its SoI then a very small kick to hit dunas atmo at 20km to brake a little as the exit trajectory was pointing slightly the wrong way... then another burn in the low 100s sent me shooting past kerbin again where a further correction sent me to eve. another manuver days before eve then at eves periapsis sent me on a return course for kerbin but going quite wide to allow kerbin to catch up (almost dres orbit) which meant I was going to pass kerbin at around 4000m/s+.. far too fast but fortunately there was about 7-8k delta left so I skimmed through kerbins atmo at 25km nearly cooking the whole thing and only getting down to 3km/s as I was leaving the atmo... redeployed the solar panels and did the worlds slowest braking manuver to get the speed down to an orbit then landed it in the deserts west of KSC