[HAVOC] The Hardest Nasa Challenge Ever

[Rdivine]

Greetings!

I'm sure many of you have heard about the nasa havoc mission, a plan to explore venus' atmosphere and its environment. If you haven't, watch the video below:

---CHALLENGE---

I am aware that there are no airship parts in Kerbal Space Program, so you are allowed to use substitutes, such as chutes, wing clipping, ion engines etc. No rockets and jet engines are allowed to keep the vessel aloft. The vessel must be stock.

You can cheat your whole vessel to space, but you are not allowed to use cheats after deorbiting. Getting it to space is easy. Getting it to work is hard.

To complete the challenge, you must fulfill the criterion.

Easy

-Construct a vessel that can de-orbit from space and re-enter kerbin's atmosphere, glide at altitudes below 25km, and use a rocket propelled craft to return to space.

-No requirement to carry any kerbals.

-Vessel must not have any visible Wing parts.

Medium

-Construct a vessel that can de-orbit from space and re-enter kerbin's atmosphere, glide at altitudes below 25km, and use a rocket propelled craft to return to space

-Must carry 2 kerbals. No more, no less.

-Must be able to glide for over 2minutes under 25km in altitude.

-must not have any visible wing parts.

-Vessel must contain ALL science gathering instruments, except for seismometer.

-The return vessel does not require to carry the instruments;kerbals can transfer science around the vessel.

Hard

-Construct a vessel that can de-orbit from space and fly below 25km of kerbin, and have a rocket-propelled return ship return to orbit.

-Vessel must carry 2 kerbals.

-Vessel must be able to glide for over 2 minutes under 25km, While maintaining a surface speed of more than 200m/s

-Vessel must not have any visible wing parts

-Vessel must carry 2x of all science instruments, but need not carry it back to space.

-Return vessel MUST be the 1.5m capsule, and capable of docking and rendezvous.

Hardest

-Construct a vessel that can de-orbit from space and fly below 10km of kerbin, and have a rocket-propelled return ship return to orbit.

-Vessel must carry 2 kerbals.

-Vessel must be able to glide for over 10 minutes under 25km

-Vessel must demonstrate full control by stopping still in the air, maintaining a surface speed of 0m/s.

-Vessel must not have any visible wing parts

-Vessel must carry 2x of all science instruments, but need not carry it back to space.

-Return vessel MUST be the 1.5m capsule, and capable of docking and rendezvous.

-Vessel must contain a cargo bay capable of delivering a 1t probe to the surface.

-All vessels must contain 2 parts.

The first part is the atmospheric part, which contains all the science equipment and parts that keep the vessel gliding and aloft.

The second part is the rocket return part, which detaches from the first part while gliding, and return to orbit with the capsule.

-The whole vessel must weigh less than 95t.

- try to make the vessel resemble that shown in the HAVOC video.

This may be the hardest challenge on KSP, and i hope you'll prove me wrong!

I dare you, scott manley and danny, to attempt the hardest mode!

Sorry if the words are not clear, typed this on my phone.

Edited May 31, 2015 by Rdivine

[Sirine]

Show us your own attempted. Please.

[Rdivine]

Show us your own attempted. Please.

I have previously attempted with wing clippings using the old atmosphere. I have tried clipping wings in the 1.0 atmosphere and it seemed to work fine, which may be a bug.

The craft i made was able to reenter and glide around, and i experimented with large parachutes to "hover". I was able to return to suborbital flight, just ~300m/s away from orbit.

I am making this challenge to see how others would attempt it, and if its really worth the effort to be used on bodies like eve and laythe. I hope it would outweigh landers and their cost.

However i am unable to post any pictures of my attempt as i am away from my computer, which is why I'm using my phone to find out how others attempt this.

[KandoKris]

OK so let me get this right....

You want to see a wingless glider on kerbin to compare to an airship above eve....

why not use Hooligan Labs so you can skip the kerbin practice and just make it an Eve airship challenge wher ther winner is the closest to the Vid, aka return rocket attached etc.

Only thing is I wish hooligan had "deflated" balloons as without them it wont look the same as the nasa vid craft.

Other then that this is a KSP do-able mission