Medwedian President's Freshly Baked Ideas: Eve Ascent Rockoon

[MedwedianPresident]

MedwedianPresident's Freshly Baked Ideas Presents:

EVE ASCENT ROCKOON

THE IDEA:

The Idea is to minimise Delta-V for an eve ascent using a "Rockoon" ascend system - the ascent vehicle is first brought up to a altitude of 25-35 kilometres using a dirigible, then separates and ascends into orbit. Here is a place for discussions on this idea.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

First, someone please move this.

Second, its already been done and it works great.

[Sirrobert]

What is a dirigible?

[TechnicalK3rbal]

What is a dirigible?

Airship, blimp, lighter-than-air-craft.

[Red Iron Crown]

Why don't you ever show us the results of your ideas? It's ok to share your ideas, but I think you'd get a more interested response if you showed us how they work out when you experiment with them in KSP.

[MedwedianPresident]

I currently have no access yet to KSP because i'm not at home; i will start using up my creative juices on Wednesday when i finally will have access to the game.

[mellojoe]

Hooligan Labs i believe makes an Airship. I think if you search for Hooligan Labs and Eve you might see some examples. In fact ... hang on .... actually .... so apparently "Eve" is too short a word for the forums to search for. You are on your own. But I bet if you look up the Hooligan Labs stuff, you'll find examples.

Scott Manley took a reverse airship to Eve, turning one into a Submarine. I can't remember the results, but I don't think he used it for ascent.