The Extreme Hippy Challenge

[BladeTheCHAMP]

The challenge is that you must launch a craft into orbit (however you wish, I.E. Mainsails and SRB's) but once in a stable orbit around kerbin, you must have a ion powered craft that has at least one kerbal aboard. The kerbal does not need a capsule, so you could use the external command seat for top efficiency. And with that you must go to minmus and reach a stable orbit, and land all with the power of ion engines. Return to kerbin is not necessary. Have at it

Easy: Minmus landing

Hard: Mun landing

[sal_vager]

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[TJPrime]

Isn't it pretty hard to land on any object with just ion engines? 1 is enough for gilly, but you're scaling it up to minmus, so it'll require probably the laggiest craft ever made

[BladeTheCHAMP]

I think it should only take 5 ion engines, which is a lot of energy to land on minmus. I might have done my mathematics all wrong for this challenge.

[Mike the Mechanic]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/63311-EXTREME-ION-ing-because-it-s-not-covalent-or-very-punny

Get inspiration here

[Captain Sierra]

I think ion engines need to be defined. NFP has some pretty powerful engines in it which could easily do that. Am I allowed to use MPDTs or PITs or do I have to use stock ion thrusters?

Even the DS4G ion, which eats power like a son of a kerbal, gives 3 thrust vs the stock 0.5. The HI-SNAP engine gives 3.1 just without 6 digit delta Vs and can be clustered up to 4 and still run on a single 1.25m reactor.

Add in NFP and use the ionic engines there, and the challenge becomes trivial.

[BladeTheCHAMP]

You can use any kind of ion engine from any mod, its just you need the ion engines. I was also doing my math on the stock parts and that might be why i see that just stock is impossible.