In my opinion, the physics only works out if the Endurance is actually rather light, particularly compared to the Rangers. Please comment to let me know how I can tweak this challenge and make it better, can't wait to see this one lander uses it's own thrusters to pull the two crafts back into stable orbit. lander uses its own SAS/RCS to stop spinning crafts dock (bonus points if in atmosphere) lander craft aligns with centrifuge craft and spins at the same rate centrifuge craft is put into suborbital trajectory (a significant one, landing eventually, not aerobraking) centrifuge craft is spun fast (the faster the better) successful initial state (near atmosphere, low orbit, lander separates and returns) reasonable scale and design of the Endurance and Lander crafts Generally I believe credit should be awarded on the following criteria: The community will somehow judge the best Interstellar style docking (I'm just putting the idea out there). Also I do not believe even mechjeb can tell you exactly how fast you are spinning, so good luck note 6: I am unsure how fast the Endurance was spinning in the movie, someone please help me define this for the challenge. note 5: replicating scenes involving the Ranger docking and being blown off are not required I recommend changing the spin and trajectory by means of small solid rocket boosters. note 4: the centrifuge style craft cannot have thrusting or SAS capability once it is docked (because it's supposed to be damaged). you get many points for completing the docking in atmosphere.
INTERSTELLAR ENDURANCE SPIN MOVIE
note 3: in the movie the ship and the lander docked after they had entered the stratosphere. note 2: it is understood that because a segment of the Endurance's ring was blown off, it would be nearly impossible to maintain rotational movement along the same axis (aka there would be too much wobble in the dock because te center of mass changed) but for the purposes of this challenge, just dock with a symmetrical craft.
note 1: it is understood that the mass and size (and naturally, the moment of inertia)of the Endurance is much larger than that of the lander. bring it out of the sub orbital trajectory with only the lander's thrusters
dock with the spinning ship without slowing it down until you have docked. bring the lander back up, spin the centrifuge-style ship to 20+ (citation needed) rpm (note 2) and put into suborbital trajectory (note 3) land the lander (or just move it away and come back) bring them into Low-orbit of any planet with a reasonably thick atmosphere (Kerbin, Jool, Eve, Laythe) create a large centrifuge-style orbital ship (note 1)
There is a scene in the movie where Mann tries to dock imperfectly and blows the Endurance (big centrifuge style craft) into a rapid spin on a suborbital trajectory.Ĭooper then approaches the rapidly spinning, damaged Endurance and manages to dock with it by spinning his own craft and lining up with it perfectly enoughĬooper then proceed to pull the Endurance out of the suborbital trajectory with just the Lander's thrusters. Great movie, I'm sure there are some parts that made some of you guys cringe.
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