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Kerbal Space Program (2015)

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Following the completion of the first Orbit capable Antelope
orbital carrier under the vehicle name of 'Alpha' - the mission of
ATS1 is greenlit after extensive testing through the months after
the Ax2 mission. Utilizing sacred military tech previously unseen.
The now refined aerojet thrusters have been given a 30% additional
DV budget. Aka less fuel for more. In the event the mission is
successful, Antelope carrier 'Alpha' will be one of the three
crafts to be built including Antelope Ceti and Beta.
The maiden voyage of the Antelope Alpha marks a new era in
spaceflight, where instead of the heavy expenditure required in
rockets - a simple re-usable craft greatly detracts the price,
lowering it extremely significantly.

Note, The current 'Alpha' Antelope craft is not capable of
delivering cargo to low earth orbit, this is due to the needs of
fuel for the engines to complete the final orbit burns. However,
the idea is to -destage- the expended ATT Antelope Test Tanker
into low Earth orbit. Once the proof of concept is achieved, the
idea is that the Antelope Alpha craft will be decomissioned and
scrapped for a further modified Antelope Ceti - which will have
exactly one more fuel chambre nacelle - allowing it to bring cargo
into low Earth orbit. This plan is however, being currently
weighed.

Due to the rigid body structure of the Antelope Alpha. Most of the
ascent and orbit will be automated With the recovered avionics
data from the previous flights. The crew, however will be
responsible for minute changes required to fine-tune the craft.
With the new installed subsystems, the Antelope Alpha is
technically capable of launching and hard landing itself - under
supervision from ground control of course. As demonstrated by the
Antelope prototype Ax2, a suborbital re-entry burn can be procured

in contingency if required. The reason behind the fact that the
'Antelope' can only perform an automatic 'hard' landing is due to
the absense of geostationary communication sattelites, thus
limiting the ship to be only capable of 'gliding' itself into an
ocean landing.

Full livestream of the ascent will be found at ~~~.

The success of the flight was pronounced after the Alpha entered

into Low earth orbit at roughly an altitude of 89kms, which was several marks short of its destined 100km orbit. lowest

possible Ksp orbit is 71~kms. During flight however, the front wheel and the Starboard Left Intake was damaged by a loosened commuinication chisel. However, it was ruled out as dangerous, thus the mission continues. Eventually inserting to a stable orbit at ~ 93km's above atmosphere - the Antelope Alpha jettisons its main fuel tank, putting it into orbit using the prototypical sattelite release procedures for future missions.

All the structures reported as nominal and the Antelope Alpha was called for re-entry after the fifth hour. Due to soft damage to the frontal wheel fairings - a further raised re-entry glide is scheduled. The intent of this is to put most of the re-entry stress on the wings and less on the front. This would result in a longer re-entry period but a lowered stress on the damaged parts of the spaceplane.

Antelope Alpha lands with minute precision from help of the onboard pilots | without GPS guidance :D |. Despite the now corroded damage near the left intake and the front wheel. The landing ended with a destroyed frontal landing gear, but otherwise structurally intact craft.

The Antelope Alpha is to be pushed into factory for initial tests and eventual upgrades into the Ceti - of which will be able to launch actual assets into low Earth orbit.

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Let's try some kind of diary approach. This is essentially a fun
recap of my missions from another Ksp save which ended up gtting
quite awesome :D - Metibutt owo

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