Rescue mission to Eve

[gilflo]

This guy is stuck on Eve

It was my first mission to Eve and the lander had an accident when separating with its lower stage on descent to Eve. they collide and the lander lost 3 tanks.

You can see it is no symmetrical, tanks are missing on right side, and we landed at 4150m instead of 7500, 29km from our goal, but we landed safely.

I studied and built a new lander able of 100000 DV on take off and we are going to send it for rescue

Here it is starting on launchpad: 3800T

We are going to establish 600T on Kerbin orbit: Lander 10000 DV plus a lower breaking stage 900DV plus an atomic pusher 3600DV, more than necessary.

Launch and landing on Kerbin by parachutes were successful.

Separation of first stage

4900m

8500m last tanks on the first ring of lower stage, we are now at 2110T

Reaching 12000m

At 21000m

At 29000m, starting the center tank engine, we are at the end of the lower inner ring.

50000M and 740T, we start on the last stage before orbit with 7 Rocko max engines

56000m

70000m

Apoapsis at 85000m

Now we are burning to Eve

Edited March 12, 2014 by gilflo

[Geschosskopf]

Good luck with that!

[gilflo]

Orbiting Eve now

But i miscalculate my orbit inclination and I have not enough DV to make my landing at the goal

I am going to send a refuller

Next step, eject the fairing to connect the refuller

Here is the rendez vous

Final approach

Contact and refuel

[gilflo]

I got some electric problem with the ship on landing. Battery was completely drained, despite My 2 generators.

I built a new ship with a solar Array instead of generators and put it in orbit to Eve. Meanwhile I learnt that when chutes are on, if I cut SAS, no orders are sent to the reaction wheel and the battery is not drained.....

Here is the new ship with its fairing breaking to Eve landing

Atmosphere entry

Atmosphere breaking

8500m Fairing ejection

6000m: breaking chutes out and torque + SAS disabled

3500m separation of last breaking stage which was providing big amount of electricity

2500 breaking chutes open and vertical speed down to 22m/s

171m above ground, all chutes opened and VS is 4,3m/S

21m above ground: We see Maldous and his lander on background at 254m

Landing is a success: At 10m I open throttle to slow down vertical speed to less than 3m/s

I got some explosions after landing but after inspection I did not see any damage, all engines and fuel lines and struts seems OK

Now we are going to land the second rescue lander on this site, just in case the explosions I got on the first one should have damage it, despite I can't see anything wrong...

[gilflo]

Second Lander, The first one, the one I got some elec problem

Breaking to aim at the landing site

Atmosphere breaking

Separation of last breaking stage

chutes open, torque and SAS disabled to lower electricity needs

26 m above ground

Succesfull landing, but I got also explosions on ground after landing. This is strange, nothing is missing. We'll see one take off

Maldous is now between his 2 Rescue landers. I hope one of them will be ok for take off.

[gilflo]

Take off was not a success. The lander has not enough DV to fly to an orbit from this altitude of 4100m

A new design has been studied and a new lander has been sent.

See here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/74221-The-Rescue-of-Maldous-Kerman