Mapping Asteroids with a SENTINEL Infrared Telescope | KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM Contract Tutorials

I need to map 13 asteroids with the SENTINEL Infrared Telescope, which requires being placed in a specific orbit of the sun. (KSP 1.12.5)

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0:00 - Introduction
0:44 - Contract & Tech
2:40 - The SENTINEL Telescope
5:32 - Making a dV Budget
8:16 - Completing the Build
13:01 - Science Lab Alarms
13:50 - Launch
14:55 - Kerbin Ejection Burn
18:03 - Final Insertion
20:59 - Mapping Asteroids
22:49 - Summary

[kfeemer]

Thank you. I bought this game 5 years ago. It wasn't very easy, so I gave up. Picked KSP up again the other day and started watching your videos. Im half way down the tech tree and im building a station in orbit. All this was accomplished because of your videos. Thank you so much.

[VolatileBullfrog]

15:56 every dad at a gas pump in the US applauds you, sir. Spot on.

[DeanShirley]

Absolutely love this series! Even though I've done most all these contracts it's nice to get a refresher and see a different way of achieving them.

[RainTheHateINC]

18:10 The inferred telescope only detects asteroids if it is in orbit around the sun. It does additional have one science experiment, which can be run around any celestial body, but it MUST be in HIGH orbit around that body. This experiment is also not biome specific, so once per celestial body.

[Fadamor]

20:35 Regarding launch debris accumulating, I go into the tracking station and select each item marked Debris" then click the red X at the bottom, acknowledge the pop up warning that anyone still in the debris part will be killed if I continue, and the part is atomized. I do this also to the hulks that are the remains after performing a rescue.

[MrHrannsi]

Aaahh, I have been scratching my noggin about the hows and whys of the alarm. Currently I am doing missions that last no more than a week so I actually could not find any use for alarms, but now I know.

[rune_lol]

you are a legend man i needed this, thank you.

[fantasybabydino]

at first i thought i'd have to map the asteroids with a hud element like with kerbnet, ty for the info :)

[Miquella_was_taken]

This is a late comment but my mission has a deadline of 1400 YEARS, how long does it take to map the asteroids exactly?

[laotsuTAICHI]

How did you get the 700 m/s orbital insertion number?

[TheRevalak]

Hi Mike,
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to schedule the launch so the KSC is on the retrograde side of Kerbin and fly right up? 🤔

This way you would not need to get into Kerbin orbit and will be in interplanetary space as soon as you reach escape velocity.

[PanzereichMapping]

Thank you, this one just wouldn’t work.