mission to gilly

[duncan1297]

i have just completed a complete mission to gilly.

approaching eve

aerobraking

approaching gilly

orbiting Gilly

descent

very slow descent

touchdown

[Pursuedtank]

Cool, well done. I have only ever been there once and I managed to break my engines off stranding my crew

[Wait- Was That Important?]

Cool, well done. I have only ever been there once and I managed to break my engines off stranding my crew

I'm sorry, but how in the hell did you manage to break off your engines landing on Gilly of all places? What, are they made out of eggshells? It's gravity is so low you can often land on RCS attitude control alone.

[Pursuedtank]

I don't completely know how I did it, but it was an admittedly a stupidly designed craft.

You can actually see one of the engines in the background.

[The Destroyer]

Not bad, for a first try.

My first try was testing an ion engine for landing without ASAS. And it swerved like crazy. Edan was stranded, but I sent rescue mission, (first ever) and suceeded! Since then, I have landed a probe, and a base consisting of (this was back in 0.17, when I was testing Bobcat MK5 "Ant") 4 Ants, one main lander, 1 DEMV MK2 (yes, it is possible to land it without a skycrane), then I left it there.

Plenty of smiling kerbals. Well, they didn't smile as much back then {

[magnemoe]

I'm sorry, but how in the hell did you manage to break off your engines landing on Gilly of all places? What, are they made out of eggshells? It's gravity is so low you can often land on RCS attitude control alone.

true, I like this picture of landing an base on Gilly,

the base was landed with no problem, note this was not the landing, but an movement to an flatter location. rcs movement did not work as all the rcs is at the skycrane at the top.

Only real danger is to high horizontal movement, probably combined with landing in uneven terrain, most of Gilly is very hilly and its often hard to spot this from above. I used an small agile lander to find location for the base.

[Ninety-Three]

I imagine Pursuedtank broke off the engine by getting the ship extremely close to the surface, and then rotating it. The engine smashes into the ground powered by ship rotation rather than gravity, and breaks off.

[ComradeGoat]

Gilly can be done in EVA without even using a lander. Probably safer!

[gompasta]

Gilly can be done with Ion power only. I believe it is the only body capable of this.

[zekes]

Try it with this:

The Debulist. HERE

It was a fun trip, small ship can take the one Kerb there an back.

[rryy]

Gilly can be done with Ion power only. I believe it is the only body capable of this.

Minmus can be landed on with ion engines, too, and probably Pol and maybe Bop, too.

[SunJumper]

Minmus can be landed on with ion engines, too, and probably Pol and maybe Bop, too.

Definitely Pol. I landed there, in my Kaku II thread.