station in eeloo

[_rafa_]

I'm trying to get a station to eeloo I'm thinking of using a bunch of xenon gas and electricity, should I use any other propellant and propulsion system, or these will get me there keep in mind I don't care how long it takes I just want to be able to bring it back to kerbling its got a bunch of docking ports to connect extra modules and extra fuel.

I got some liquid fuel for the landers and rovers that I want to deploy at eeloo 

[The Aziz]

Xenon is a bad idea beyond Dres, unless you put dozens of gigantors, NUKs and fuel cells. It will get you there but oh my gods good luck with capture burn that far away from the sun. Tell you what, I had a single xenon engine and 3 gigantor panels on one of my small Jool probes. Had to run on like 14% thrust to not run out of power.

You'll be good with good old nuclear engine. Plus, trip to eeloo isn't that much more expensive fuel wise than Jool.

[king of nowhere]

3 hours ago, _rafa_ said:

 should I use

you shouldn't do anything. You can do pretty much anything you want. if you're not running a challenge for lowest mass or lowest part or lowest something, you can use different solutions and they all work.

that said, if you use xenon, make sure you can have electricity that far from the sun. it is a perfectly viable choice, but a bit uncomfortable to apply

2 hours ago, The Aziz said:

Xenon is a bad idea beyond Dres, unless you put dozens of gigantors, NUKs and fuel cells. It will get you there but oh my gods good luck with capture burn that far away from the sun. Tell you what, I had a single xenon engine and 3 gigantor panels on one of my small Jool probes. Had to run on like 14% thrust to not run out of power.

You'll be good with good old nuclear engine. Plus, trip to eeloo isn't that much more expensive fuel wise than Jool.

i did use solar panels at eeloo to power ion engines. it took 6 gigantors for a 15-tons ship. twr was extremely low, of course (i had engine at 5%) but even though burn was very inefficient - I basically did make the burn in solar orbit - it was more than compensated by xenon efficiency. and, more important, the ship was an escape pod from a larger ship that had to carry it, so having a low mass was more important.

I suggest using the persistent thrust mod to use ion engines while on time warp. Before discovering it, I just left the game in background for hours.

[_rafa_]

thanks I dint realice that the solar panels would struge with electricity generation that far out

[_rafa_]

ill deploy large fuel deposits and a liquid fuel engine section and attach theme in orbit and ill go from there