Electric EVE!

[Arugela]

How far could you take electric propulsion in the form of rotation and get in the upper atmospwhere of EVE to reduce needed wait for ascent. If you design a craft, especially a more stable ssto spaceplane type design, you could hypothetically incrase payload and decrease needed fuel and other weight to get off eve making it more accessible. And it utilizes it's one advantage, heavy atmosphere.

 

Here is a concept craft. This can get to around 3500m on kerbin. With eve's thicker atmosphere this concept could easily reduce fuel to something much more accessible and allow you to start from sea level anywhere on eve.

To use the craft open activate SAS then hold Q to begin taking off. It can go to about 12.5m/s directly up with this slapped together design. When it starts to wobble to much hold E or let it stop rotating then generally realign with up, then hold Q again and repeat.

Craft: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zabndivo5x8brfm/eve electric lifter.craft?dl=0

 

I wonder if you could use something as simple as angled aerobrake devices so that they can be stowed later and act as breaks. This could allow an SSTO spaceplane Rocket hybrid design fairly easily. Possibly even one that can get off kerbin with air breathing engines.

 

Here is a more stable version: (got this version up to 16km on kerbin.)

Craft: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2aoy91ct77p1i3/KTE Electric Lifter 1_0.craft?dl=0

Craft2.0: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2w1kik6xttkom0s/KTE Electric Lifter 2_0.craft?dl=0 <- This one has a crew station and can use mono to land on eve with set orbit.

There is an interesting phenonom that might be exploitable. If you use the minium authority limiter for the wings then increase it to max you get a sudden burst of speed. It's not much, and after a few seconds stabalizes, but if you could maximize this could you act like a flying saucer and rotate and suddenly increase to a larger amount of speed? Could you even get enough to shoot out of orbit or to close to neede velocity for escape on kerbin, even, laythe, or jool. And what about the sun. I think it technically has an atmosphere. So could you use this design idea to lauch from around teh sun as you have potentially infinite DeltaV. You could use it for completely different types of maneuvers. Both from sol and jool.

To use burst speed on this one you use E instead of Q. And the low setting is 150 and the highest speed is -150. If you take off with 150 and after taking off quickly slide it to -150 you will go instantly to about 15m/s upwards and it will then drop back down. This could be potentially maximized to get higher velocities in atmospheres. It's depends on how exploitable it is.

Edited April 11, 2018 by Arugela