Eve Probe Lander?

[AeroAviation]

I am thinking of landing a probe onto the surface of Eve in a one way trip but I am curious on

how much delta-v I would need and how big my rocket would be (would I have to assemble it in orbit?) and if its possible to only land on Eve with just parachutes or will I need a engine to assist me?

Edited March 7, 2014 by AeroAviation

[WhiteKnuckle]

Parachutes only will work just fine. Eve has a very thick atmosphere so chutes work better there than they do on Kerbin.

[Dooz]

Use Parachutes Should be able to get it down to the surface Eve has a Thick atmosphere.

[maccollo]

You will need about 6.5 km/s. That should leave you with some margin for error.

If you're sending a small probe you should be able to do it with a simple two staged rocket.

[OTehNoes]

Yeah Eve's atmosphere is extremely thick, so you can use aerobraking to slow down when landing just make sure your angle of entry is fairly shallow, then just parachutes to land. Don't deploy the parachutes too high up though or you'll be descending for quite some time!

[AeroAviation]

Thanks guys! I am going to start designing a rocket now.

[Kasuha]

You need about 1100 m/s from Kerbin's LKO. Plus some monopropellant to do mid-flight trajectory corrections to get and keep your Eve intercept periapsis below 80 km. And you need to transfer to Eve SOI at low time warp.

Without direct hitting Eve's atmosphere you need some 3000 m/s on top of that to brake. I'd avoid that.

Use about the same number of parachutes you would on Kerbin, but use twice the amount/strength of landing legs than necessary on Kerbin.

Definitely use at least one drogue.

Edited March 7, 2014 by Kasuha

[Kryxal]

I remember tossing a probe that way, it had a Stayputnik on top with a parachute ... HAD.