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  1. Foxster
    Had the same. Its pretty buggy at the moment. It would take editing of the save file to fix the items.
  2. Foxster
    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.
  3. Foxster
    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.
  4. Foxster
    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.
  5. Foxster
    Well, good luck. Do post your craft here when you get it working.
  6. Foxster
    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.
  7. Foxster
    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.
  8. Foxster
    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.
  9. Foxster
    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.
  10. Foxster
    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.
  11. Foxster
    About 1.25.
  12. Foxster
    You can also make a funky ion/fuel-cell powered LEM...
  13. Foxster
    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...
  14. Foxster
    Just leave them there to die. Plenty more where they came from and no one will mourn them.
  15. Foxster
    All my mods are working fine so far.
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