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Old 12-07-12, 10:45 PM   #4
Spike88
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Probius 3 reaches it's orbit around Eve. The journey took 340-ish days(just under a year) and a lot of guess work. I could've probably cut the time in half had I realized the best way to work the flight planning system. As the satellite was pretty much on it's own propulsion around the time it encountered Eve, I had to Aerobrake.

After a burn to mostly circularize the orbit, the tanks were just about empty(could probably fine tune the orbit a tad more before running out, but what's the point?)
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