Eve crashcourse

[Fantorngen]

Do any of you see me getting out of this situation alive?

https://gyazo.com/df2e25e7e41ba055b1d54e28e7e4209e

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

I suggest you to make a maneuver node that gets you just out of the atmosphere, but it will be very epileptical and hard for mid space rescue.

Or you can set your course for a softer atmosphere entry and land - I see that you have a parachute. Do that only if you have a heat shield. After that you just need to send a rescue craft to the surface and take the kerbal back home.

Edited January 2, 2022 by Aerodynamic Kerbal

[Fantorngen]

I don't know why i didn't think of that, thank you very much!

 

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

No problem, pal!

[Fantorngen]

I mean now the only issue is taking off with the rescue vessel when i get there

[Vanamonde]

I hope you have a heat shield, but if so, yes, just raise your periapsis a bit and maybe make a few aerobrake passes. 

[MechBFP]

1 hour ago, Fantorngen said:

I mean now the only issue is taking off with the rescue vessel when i get there

Taking off of Eve, with even 1 single Kerbal is among the hardest, if not the hardest, thing to do in the game.

[Fantorngen]

THANK YOU ALL FOR GREAT ANSWERS, i landed on eve and since i am in sience mode, i am gonna wait for some better parts until i recover the kerbel,

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

12 hours ago, Fantorngen said:

THANK YOU ALL FOR GREAT ANSWERS, i landed on eve and since i am in sience mode, i am gonna wait for some better parts until i recover the kerbel,

Great! Could you post a pic of the vessel situation and maybe one from the lifter rocket?

14 hours ago, Fantorngen said:

I mean now the only issue is taking off with the rescue vessel when i get there

Sure, as far as I know, it needs to have a high TWR (like 5?) There is an app in the VAB about the ∆V. It provides information about a lot of stuff, including the TWR. So, you click on "Body", select Eve on sea level, click on "show all" and boom! You see the TWR for each stage! Make sure to have a free slot for you kerbal/kerbals! 

And to save a lot of fuel, but A BUNCH of parachutes. Maybe a set of drogue ones and then main? You can also use the capsule's parachute and then when a kerbal ENGINEER goes on EVA it can re-store it. 

Good luck with the engineering and piloting 

Edited January 3, 2022 by Aerodynamic Kerbal

[king of nowhere]

On 1/2/2022 at 8:23 PM, Aerodynamic Kerbal said:

I suggest you to make a maneuver node that gets you just out of the atmosphere, but it will be very epileptical and hard for mid space rescue.

Or you can set your course for a softer atmosphere entry and land - I see that you have a parachute. Do that only if you have a heat shield. After that you just need to send a rescue craft to the surface and take the kerbal back home.

 

On 1/2/2022 at 8:43 PM, Fantorngen said:

I mean now the only issue is taking off with the rescue vessel when i get there

not sure why you think that rescuing a crew in elliptic orbit would be harder than rescuing a crew on the surface of eve itself.

elliptic orbits are easy to deal with a bit of practice. the trick is that around apoapsis you are going veeeryyyy slooooow, so you will spend many days near the same place. So don't bother matching orbital planes or anything. send another probe in another elliptic orbit around eve (all you have to do is make the capture burn without circularizing), then when you are near your own apoapsis make a radial/normal burn to go touch the target vehicle's apoapsis. from there, refine a close encounter. normal/radial burns are normally very expensive, but since you'll be going very slow at apoapsis, it will actually be cheap.

should require no more than 400 m/s from another elliptic orbit around eve. against the 8000 for eve surface