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the_sky_calls) wrote2025-05-24 07:55 am
the_sky_calls) wrote2025-05-24 07:55 am
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I see a stargate and I want to blow it up
Up until now, the munar lander concept was that of a direct return. That is, the lander ascends from the munar surface to orbit then breaks orbit and returns to Kerbin, previous versions having either a Soyuz or a VA reentry module. Both designs are heavier for having to carry things like heat shields to the munar surface and back.
The L3M is a simpler and lighter design intended to shuttle crews from the station in Munar orbit to the surface and back. Lighter and more efficient for having to only make that short trip. The early LK lander hardware was mated to a larger habitation module and attached to a descent/ascent module. This was put on a rocket for a one-way trip to the Mun. And, even better, it had been mostly constructed and ready to go when the arch sumatokha happened so it was able to launch almost immediately.
Fully automated, it arrived and docked at the Udacha Lunnaya Orbital'naya Stantsiya but then had to wait five days in orbit for the station orbit to take it over the Farside Arch.
Once landed near the arch, Comrade Engineer Andrei Yevgenyevich Kermanov immediately dropped the Control Station, breaking it. Though experienced, he was unable to repair the module. Because of that, there was a certain trepidation in allowing him to proceed with the next mission task: blowing up the arch.
Not so much “blowing it up”, but using explosives to perhaps blast away the overlying rock structure to reveal if there was an alien construction under this arch as was revealed beneath the Northwest Crater Arch.
The explosives deployed were insufficient to blast away a significant amount of stone, and thus the experiment was inconclusive.
The L3M is a simpler and lighter design intended to shuttle crews from the station in Munar orbit to the surface and back. Lighter and more efficient for having to only make that short trip. The early LK lander hardware was mated to a larger habitation module and attached to a descent/ascent module. This was put on a rocket for a one-way trip to the Mun. And, even better, it had been mostly constructed and ready to go when the arch sumatokha happened so it was able to launch almost immediately.
Fully automated, it arrived and docked at the Udacha Lunnaya Orbital'naya Stantsiya but then had to wait five days in orbit for the station orbit to take it over the Farside Arch.
Once landed near the arch, Comrade Engineer Andrei Yevgenyevich Kermanov immediately dropped the Control Station, breaking it. Though experienced, he was unable to repair the module. Because of that, there was a certain trepidation in allowing him to proceed with the next mission task: blowing up the arch.
Not so much “blowing it up”, but using explosives to perhaps blast away the overlying rock structure to reveal if there was an alien construction under this arch as was revealed beneath the Northwest Crater Arch.
The explosives deployed were insufficient to blast away a significant amount of stone, and thus the experiment was inconclusive.