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Chopper circumnavigation of Eve in less than 7 hours

xendelaar

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I circumnavigated Eve with a lightweight chopper and brought my Kerbal safely back home afterwards using a Helicopter-Rocket hybrid.

The idea was to make the chopper small and fast. I ended up with a compact design that flies very stable. Here are its specs:

Chopper
Weight: 1.000 kg (2200 lbs)
Top speed: ~190 m/s (623 ft/s)
Radius: infinite (infinite)
Power: 5 RTG’s  

Eve Ascend vehicle
Weight : 16.700 kg (66000 lbs)
Delta v: 5000 m/s
TWR : 1.4 (on Eve)  

The circumnavigation took around 7 hours to complete, which is a record for me (hurray).

I made a small video of the mission.

 

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