How to drive Eeloo

[HoloYolo]

 How to Drive Eeloo

As you can see by my sig, I have done the Eeloocano challenge. My mission report is in the Mission Report section and it is stickied. But enough of advertising. You are here to learn how to drive around Eeloo. Let's check Eeloo's terrain before building a sutiable rover.

Eeloo's Equilateral Terrain

Very hilly, paired with low gravity, can launch your rovers to their doom.

Lots of canyons and valleys. I experienced 3 on my journey.

Lots of brown. It's cool to look at.

If there's no brown, there's white. Very bright midday.

 

Now that you know the terrian, let's build the rover. What should my rover have?

The Rover

RTGs. Solar power is almost useless regardless of where you land in its orbit. Batteries should be included just in case you use mainly solar power.

Low suspension. If your rover is tall, it will probably fall. 

The wider the better. It really helps for your wheels to take the brunt force and not the pod.

The ability to climb and descend without exploding. Pretty straight forward.

It should be pretty light, seeing as you need to bring it to Eeloo.

How do I get to and/or land on Eeloo?

It takes about 2 to 3 kms of Delta V to transfer to Eeloo from Kerbin. Make sure your rocket can afford any transfer burns in Kerbin or Kerbol SOI.

Also, make sure the rocket can get into Eeloo orbit, and has a landing stage that can deliver it.

Landing on Eeloo is like landing on the Mun. Make sure your landing stage can do that.

use ksp.olex.biz for transfer windows.

Some more tips

If you are going past 30 m/s, take your finger off the W key and only steer it. If it goes past 35 m/s, brake until 25 m/s and then drive as normal.

Brake while driving down hills. You only have to do it a bit, though.

Quicksave if you feel like you have to. Eeloo is easy to drive and you only have to hit F5 and F9 only a few times.

I do not recommend driving at night. The terrain is very hard to see. If you must, pack lights.

Don't stop at landmarks unless they are in your immediate direction. Any trailing off will make you longer to drive around the equator.

You must be patient. It took me 4 IRL days to drive around. Do not expect this to be quick.

Have fun.

If there's anything else I could add, please tell me.

Hoped this helped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Warzouz]

I never drove for a long period on Eeloo (just tested a Hyperedited rover there for hundreds of metres) there. But I landed several times on Eeloo. The surface is smooth and nearly crater free ; not like the Mun... So it's quite safe and easy.

I've a rover design built for 1.0.5. It may need some upgrade for a long rovering as wheels uses more power than before. Maybe you can adapt from there. The landing skycrane is quite easy to use. Most of the price of this stuff comes from the RTG you can't really do otherwise on Eeloo.

have fun.

[r4pt0r]

Appreciate your post Holo, im about to do my first Eeloo rover.

[HoloYolo]

5 hours ago, r4pt0r said:

Appreciate your post Holo, im about to do my first Eeloo rover.

Thanks. I hope it works out for you.

[Tex_NL]

Test your Eeloo rover on Mun. Surface gravity is very similar. If it performs well on the night side of Mun it should do fine in the low light and slightly higher gravity on Eeloo.