Landing Solutions for Eve

[Sirine]

Here is my new Eve lander, the landing legs finally work even if it lands at an angle. It also hit the ground at 9 m/s and nothing essential broke.

Congratulate on your success landing.

However it is recommend that you should do the ascend part 1st. Else you will back to descend landing part problem again.

[numerobis]

Giant rockets may not be the only way to get out of Eve. This is still under development, but as you can see, I have a prototype that flies on kerbin. On eve, there is more solar power available and more atmosphere, so I'll be able to lift more weight with the same amount of wing. It all comes down to how light I can make the rocket ascent stage in the center.

Looks good to go, long as you can fly that up to about 10km on Eve -- how high up can you go with that on Kerbin?

[nhnifong]

Looks good to go, long as you can fly that up to about 10km on Eve -- how high up can you go with that on Kerbin?

I don't know yet, I'm sending a version to eve now for an initial test

On kerbin I can't gain altitude faster than about 1 m/s so I was not willing to wait around for it. I also can't run the ions at full power because of kerbin's distance from the sun.

I'll let you know how it flies at Eve!

[nhnifong]

I wasted far too much time just trying to get it into orbit around kerbin as a spaceplane before just adding rockets to it.

Anyways, once at Eve, it has a lot of landing flexibility. You can see I came in over water and managed to divert it quite a bit. On the surface, I was able to lift off, but not able to gain altitude, I tried getting to orbit anyways with the rockets and made it about half way.

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[Sirine]

I wasted far too much time just trying to get it into orbit around kerbin as a spaceplane before just adding rockets to it.

Anyways, once at Eve, it has a lot of landing flexibility. You can see I came in over water and managed to divert it quite a bit. On the surface, I was able to lift off, but not able to gain altitude, I tried getting to orbit anyways with the rockets and made it about half way.

Great effort. Eve minimum standard orbit 85x85km...I always make it 90x90km.