Safe low altitude for jool?

[KerbalKid]

"How low can i go" when i'm going to jool so far i've got a 3,166,019m periapsis around jool should this be safe? can i make it lower?.

[bzimac]

If you are asking about athmosphere, wiki says it ends at 200km. So it should be pretty safe at that alt.

[KerbalKid]

Already got into an orbit, lost all my fuel before i could circularize it.

[Foxster]

32 minutes ago, KerbalKid said:

Already got into an orbit, lost all my fuel before i could circularize it.

This is where gravity assist braking and/or aerobraking is your friend. 

[KerbalKid]

Just now, Foxster said:

This is where gravity assist braking and/or aerobraking is your friend. 

I Believe i've tried a few times... and uhh it didn't go very well aka I BLEW UP TO HUNDRES OF PIECES so... yeah... the only place

i really aerobrake is duna.

[Foxster]

1 minute ago, KerbalKid said:

I Believe i've tried a few times... and uhh it didn't go very well aka I BLEW UP TO HUNDRES OF PIECES so... yeah... the only place

i really aerobrake is duna.

Yea, can be a tad tricky 

[KerbalKid]

Mhmm and i didn't have any heatshields on i was trying to re-create the "Juno" mission except i named it "Vulcan 1" and it was a mix between

Orion (Like the manned spacecraft going to be used to go to mars) & Juno

[Snark]

Moving to Gameplay Questions.

Jool aerobraking is a challenge, due to the very high speeds involved. You pretty much have to have a heatshield.

[Firemetal]

Use a Tylo/Laythe gravity assist to get into orbit. Takes almost no fuel at all! First do a Hohmann transfer, then do a correction burn to get yourself closer, then once in Jool's SOI, do a correction burn to get a Tylo or Laythe Gravity assist and make sure you get it on the prograde side of the planet. Then if you are doing a Laythe assist, put your pe right above 50km. If it's Tylo, do it above 12km.

Hope this helped.