Duna Landings in 1.0.2?

[MaverickSawyer]

I'm about to launch my first mission to Duna, and I have a very important question:

How effective are parachutes on Duna with the new atmosphere model?

I can land on Duna on rocket power alone easily, but I was curious just how much of a dV savings parachutes can provide.

Edited May 8, 2015 by MaverickSawyer

[impyre]

We *used* to be able to land on Duna on rocket power easily. It remains to be seen (for me anyway) whether the fact that rocket engines (especially lander stage engines) get less thrust in atmosphere will prove annoying on Duna. I imagine a combination of chutes and engines will work best, as it has for me in the past.

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I'm sending up a Duna mission now, so I guess I'll find out soon enough. I included enough fuel to land without atmosphere at all, so I'm hoping that chutes+engines will be overkill.

[Anquietas314]

Does this answer your question?:

Don't worry, this is just my sandbox testing save. They were safely magicked back to KSC

1 Mk16XL chute and 3 Mk2-R radial chutes and an (almost) stock vehicle (I have a mod that makes heatshields a little heavier than stock). Be aware that there was significant necksnapping when the chutes fully deployed .

Seems to me parachutes are more or less just as effective in 1.0.2 as they were back in 0.90

Edited May 8, 2015 by armagheddonsgw

[MaverickSawyer]

Does this answer your question?:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/713036960117764401/BB1B81637D4DEE3BD43F1098F7C39814E8126F19/

Don't worry, this is just my sandbox testing save. They were safely magicked back to KSC

1 Mk16XL chute and 3 Mk2-R radial chutes and an (almost) stock vehicle (I have a mod that makes heatshields a little heavier than stock). Be aware that there was significant necksnapping when the chutes fully deployed .

Seems to me parachutes are more or less just as effective in 1.0.2 as they were back in 0.90

Yes... yes it does.

Marking this as "Answered".