How 'bout "No"?

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

... because maintaining stability on Gilly is impossible.

[hazens1]

Grappling Claw?

[zekes]

Infinity ladder?

[Alshain]

Star Trek orbital mining station. Just beam it up.

[Superfluous J]

Funny. You have a problem with the "land on Gilly" part where my issue is more with the "get the stuff off Eve" part.

[basic.syntax]

Funny. You have a problem with the "land on Gilly" part where my issue is more with the "get the stuff off Eve" part.

ROTFL! Yes! This thread deals with the same topic.

[cicatrix]

With old aero I needed 11,5 km/s dV to get to low Eve orbit. With the new aero model this figure should be around 8-9 km/s, am I right?

[magnemoe]

With old aero I needed 11,5 km/s dV to get to low Eve orbit. With the new aero model this figure should be around 8-9 km/s, am I right?

Perhaps a bit less, current designs tend to focus on high initial TWR, followed by an sleek core who sustain speed until you get out of the worst atmosphere.

However getting 32 ton cargo up to 7 km/s with high TWR would be hard to say it simple.

[problemecium]

Wow... I got this exact same mission recently o_O

In fact this thread threw me for a loop because at first I thought that was my picture up there xD

[cicatrix]

Perhaps a bit less, current designs tend to focus on high initial TWR, followed by an sleek core who sustain speed until you get out of the worst atmosphere.

However getting 32 ton cargo up to 7 km/s with high TWR would be hard to say it simple.

Ha, you say hard I say challenge

Seriously though, I might even attempt that with Karbonite, but certainly not stock.

[Joonatan1998]

Better than missions to rescue someone from low sun orbit...

And I haven't even landed on the Mun yet.

At least they give 20 years of time.

[BDelacroix]

It's impossible? I had a small station orbiting gilly. Still, seems a pain.

[Armchair Rocket Scientist]

With old aero I needed 11,5 km/s dV to get to low Eve orbit. With the new aero model this figure should be around 8-9 km/s, am I right?

In theory. However, thrust now scales with atmospheric pressure (as it should), and many engines have very poor atmospheric isp, especially at the high pressures of Eve's lower atmosphere. Plus Eve ascent vehicles tend to be pancakes anyway.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

It's impossible? I had a small station orbiting gilly. Still, seems a pain.

If I learned something from playing KSP, than that nothing is impossible... but still

In theory. However, thrust now scales with atmospheric pressure (as it should), and many engines have very poor atmospheric isp, especially at the high pressures of Eve's lower atmosphere. Plus Eve ascent vehicles tend to be pancakes anyway.

What you can do is, sending an empty rocket to eve, fuel it there and leave the ISRU and the Drills behind before you ascent.

[samstarman5]

Now the Kerbals really are thinking with mass. Get some of that mass off of Eve so things can lighten up there, and get it onto Gilly, which can stand to gain a few pounds.

[Mipe]

But but 2 million money! *pinky to the lip corner*

[Michaelo90]

Nothing in the objectives says that the ore you put on Gilly actually has to come from Eve. I wonder if you can land on Eve, mine 2850 ore, convert it to fuel, and then go to Gilly and mine 2850 ore there to complete.

[Skorpychan]

The real question is whether it all has to be hauled up at once.

Otherwise, maybe find a flat spot you can launch a rocketplane from. Get up out of the soup slowly, then lay on the thrust?

[biohazard15]

You're kidding, right? Landing on Gilly is pretty easy - just use your RCS to descend and land, and then just push yourself to the ground.

Now, mining all that ore on Eve and bringing it up would be a REAL challenge...

[Mipe]

Land on Gilly, tether yourself to it and extend a very, very, very long pipe with mining drill toward Eve.

Whatever could go wrong?!

[hazens1]

Setup a Stargate on Gilly and Eve, dial the address to Gilly from Eve and just rover the resources through... Oh sorry, wrong game

[Rath]

Land on eve, mine ore lift off, dump ore go to gilly mine ore. Might work?

[Mipe]

I'm interested in how would you execute the lift off. Care to share your EVE escape plan with us?

[Radam]

Does the second objective light up if you have that much ore on the launchpad?

As maybe you could satisfy the first requirement with a separate vessel.

[John FX]

Nothing in the objectives says that the ore you put on Gilly actually has to come from Eve. I wonder if you can land on Eve, mine 2850 ore, convert it to fuel, and then go to Gilly and mine 2850 ore there to complete.

Ore what you could do is just drop an ore collector on Eve using chutes leaving a sister craft in orbit. Once landed fill up with 2850 ore then forget that craft, switch to the sister craft and land on Gilly and refill with another 2850 ore. Contract complete.

AFAIK each objective only needs completing once and not with the same craft. I had a contract where I had to go into LKO, do some stuff then land. I launched one craft, did the LKO stuff in another then on my next launch I got the 'landed on kerbin' objective checked and the contract completed.