Electric Eve Stock Circumnavigation (EESC)

[JackDugan]

For the Elcano challenge, I will circumnavigate Eve in stock KSP. I will take the route with minimal liquid-crossings and go via an equatorial path. After some testing on my modded version of KSP, I have decided on a design and have landed on Eve in my stock version of the game. Obviously, the way to go was pure electrically, as stock KSP does not allow for easy traveling across liquids without jet engines.

You must be curious about why I have so many SAS and ASAS modules on my rover. These provide enough torque to allow the rover to flip over in liquids, as seen in the testing video. This is how I will cross the small portions of water I encounter.

Launching it was relatively boring. Building the rocket was quite a challenge, however, as no fairings fit the size of my rover. This meant huge wings would be required to keep the center of lift below the center of mass.

Now that the transfer window was open, we were able to go to Eve without any plane changes.

We, thankfully, survived atmospheric entry by using the last of my previous engine to slow the rover to a much less dangerous velocity (4 km/s to 2.5 km/s).

The EESC has begun (and Jebediah is already dying of heat)!

[Geschosskopf]

Egad, this brings a whole new meaning to the word "seasick" . Good luck with your circumnavigation.

[Mikki]

Hi There

Respect, You are totally nuts! Good luck with your task, when you solve it, then you are a god of KSP.

Good luck... !

[Feradose]

Just look at that monstrous mobile fortress! Good luck with that, circumnavigating Kerbin was hard enough for me, and you do it in the hell planet Eve, rep for you