Foxster

Had the same. Its pretty buggy at the moment. It would take editing of the save file to fix the items.

Yea the deployment of science experiments is a mess at the moment. You have to open the craft/storage inventory and move the experiment to the Kerbal's backpack. Close the storage. Open the backpack and click on the little white symbol in the corner of the stored experiment and you can then finally place the experiment. Completely unintuitive. Also buggy because, as said above, sometimes experiments placed on the surface cannot be picked up or deployed. The whole thing needs a re-work.

I don't see how you hope to get that behemoth to Eve and, particularly, down to the surface. Making it much, much smaller would make getting it there easier and likely fix your shimmy issues.

Just stick a Communotron 16 antenna on the front of the mk1 cockpit. Will raise the max temp from 1100° to 2000°. This quick-and-dirty aircraft can do mach 5 at 18km no problems.

Well, good luck. Do post your craft here when you get it working.

I think you are going to struggle. It's barely possible to have a no-payload SSTO make orbit and even then its difficult. It's hard to imagine doing it with a useful-sized payload of a rover and, presumably, mining gear. If you want a rover to visit several locations then it might be worth considering a mining-refueling rocket plane doing hops. The last leg back to orbit with the science/crew could be done with another small rocket either carried too or else dropped to rendezvous on the surface.

My point is not whether it's possible but whether it's useful. The OP wanted to do some stuff on the surface of Eve and return. For that there are better option than an SSTO.

Two things: 1. SSTOs are not really practical for Eve. They are so borderline that they are usually impractical for anything other than bragging rights. 2. dV figures for surface to orbit on Eve are mostly useless. You can build a massive craft with much more than the listed dV required that will never make orbit due to the very high drag of every part in Eve's atmosphere. Plus the poor isp of most engines there means achieving the listed dV is even harder. Your best bet will remain using a more conventional rocket and abandoning everything but the crew on the surface.

Another lateral solution here is to not take such a big craft that requires all those heatshields. Have a look at other player's craft for Eve. One big thing is that drag is most important in Eve's souposphere. By making your craft with slimmer/smaller tanks & engines you will greatly reduce drag and still be able to make orbit even though the indicated dV of the craft is less.

If anyone would like to try this craft then the complete mission craft (including lifter and transfer stage) is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sas721xlp2ptqwp/New Mun 3.craft?dl=0 The final stage fuel tanks are turned off to stop the fuel-cells using them. Remember to turn them back on before lifting off the Mun. It's for a quasi-Apollo mission.

About 1.25.

You can also make a funky ion/fuel-cell powered LEM...

You just need lots of drag at the back. Whatever you fancy of: An inflating heat shield, lots of air brakes (could be a 20+), or several wing pieces perpendicular to the direction of travel...

Just leave them there to die. Plenty more where they came from and no one will mourn them.

All my mods are working fine so far.

One way around that is to put a capsule of some kind on the bottom of the craft. Transfer the crew in and out of that to the main capsule at the top of the craft. Dump it before lifting off.

I'm guessing that even though you have an even distribution of fuel tanks they aren't being used evenly and so the CoM shifts. Check out the fuel priority setting for the tanks and make sure that it is set the same for symmetrically mounted tanks.

I'll see if I can find a craft later to post but one thing to consider up front is the choice of capsule. Drag is the king of Eve and so you want the lightest and slimmest crew accommodation. A mk1 capsule plus a mk1 crew cabin is good. Or you could even consider three command seats in a mk1 fairing. Don't take anything to orbit that is non-essential. So dump experiments, chutes, solar panels, ladders, etc before lifting off. Don't plan on a docking in orbit because that requires extra stuff. Have a mothership rendezvous with your craft and EVA over the crew for the return journey to Kerbin.

I'd say there is just too much mass hanging off a few decouplers. Its a very draggy craft and when the atmos gets real thick I think it's just pulling itself apart. That craft could be a fraction of the size if you did some proper streamlining. At the moment you are throwing huge amounts of dV away to drag. Drag being the no.1 consideration for an Eve ascent craft. It would be OK for Kerbin's thinner atmosphere but not for Eve. You need a few thin stacks, not the dozen of fat, non-tapered ones you have.

I'm sorry to hear that.

That would be zero then as the correct term is 'sand grains'.

Couple o' things... Launching the spacecraft from the top of the airplane lifter seems to work best as it tends to avoid them crashing together after separation. Try killing all engines just before separation - can help avoid collisions. You may have to sacrifice the lifter because you won't be able to control it whilst getting the spacecraft to orbit. You may find it actually easier to have a vertical launch craft with a jet-powered first stage at the back end or as side boosters.

3 (or so)

1. Make it smaller or 2. Make it in parts, launch them, assemble in orbit. You know, like they really do 3. Use the cheat menu to set it into orbit

I leave the ugly green gnomes to their fate. They knew what they were getting into when they took the job. I don't even delete the craft in the tracking station. If they wanted to get home they should have got gud at driving spaceships.