That person who took off from Jool?

[Jubel]

I remember seeing a post around a while back about one brave astroman who built a very large ship that took off from the "surface" of jool. After hyperediting it in, and expending an amount of energy that some small countries use in a year, he managed to get from about 300 metres below the "surface" (as indicated by the altitude-o-metre), and into a low (but stable) orbit around the gas giant.

I have been spending the past few hours looking for this post, as I was really interested in showing one of my friends that, "yes, it is possible". However since the post seems to be lost in the realms of second page google searches, and i've never had any luck with the forum searchbar, (or any forum each for that matter), i'm wondering if someone remembers this post, and happens to know where it is.

if you have the post (or imgur album that it was based on), i would love to have a link to it, or if you remember the topic, but not exactly where, i'm always up for a bit more searching.

(also i extremely apologize if this is the wrong board, it didnt seem to fit anywhere else, but i still have no idea if this is the right place)

[Xaelath]

Wow. o.o I would like to see that.

[FanaticalFighter]

Found something crazier.

I did some Google-Fu and found this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/50242-Jool-accent-the-imposible-chalenge

Essentially, this guy managed to not only land on Jool, but TAKE OFF INTO ORBIT. And I thought Eve was scary.

[NecroBones]

Found something crazier.

I did some Google-Fu and found this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/50242-Jool-accent-the-imposible-chalenge

Essentially, this guy managed to not only land on Jool, but TAKE OFF INTO ORBIT. And I thought Eve was scary.

I want to know what a "Jool accent" is. Is that like reverse Spanish?

[magnemoe]

It was me

Her is an album with more pictures http://imgur.com/a/dahmU#0

Saw somebody who did it and found I could build a better ship.

An yes it was all from pad to Jool and back, stock+ mechjeb back in 0.21, main use for mechjeb was to keep temperature control on engines deep down where, as background temprature is 1000 degree the engines overheat easy.

[vger]

I want to know what a "Jool accent" is. Is that like reverse Spanish?

I don't know, but this mission is making me Jool.

[FanaticalFighter]

It was me

Sir, hats off to you for winning KSP.

[Xaiier]

It was me

Her is an album with more pictures http://imgur.com/a/dahmU#0

Saw somebody who did it and found I could build a better ship.

An yes it was all from pad to Jool and back, stock+ mechjeb back in 0.21, main use for mechjeb was to keep temperature control on engines deep down where, as background temprature is 1000 degree the engines overheat easy.

I am completely dumbfounded by the fact that that ship has over 20k DV at that TWR. What was the part count?

[federally]

It's hilarious that with a ship that big all that could actually get off Jool was one Kerbal in a chair lol.

Bravo sir

[Spuds]

I think that Dahud Lefthanded (On KSP-TV) did it too, it might be on his Youtube channel.

EDIT:

[magnemoe]

I am completely dumbfounded by the fact that that ship has over 20k DV at that TWR. What was the part count?

856 parts on pad, so it was not so insane. And yes I see in hindsight that the LV-N was probably an mistake, decent chance I would gotten more out of using 48-7S.

It's hilarious that with a ship that big all that could actually get off Jool was one Kerbal in a chair lol.

Bravo sir

Well you have a challenge, repeat it with an three man pod

[The Jedi Master]

Whelp. That... that is a blow to my pride. But in any case, someone finally figured out how to win KSP. Bravo!

[ScallopPotato]

I'm thinking about doing a Jool ascent with Ferram at some point, sans hyper edit. Considering how FAR made my Eve ascent easier than expected, I imagine the delta-v requirements for a Jool ascent would be around 12-15 km, instead of the 32-40 km in stock.

[magnemoe]

I'm thinking about doing a Jool ascent with Ferram at some point, sans hyper edit. Considering how FAR made my Eve ascent easier than expected, I imagine the delta-v requirements for a Jool ascent would be around 12-15 km, instead of the 32-40 km in stock.

Its 22km/s from Jool stock, main issue is probably to make something aerodynamic who has high enough dV and TWR, remember that the engines will overheat too so you have to compensate with more engines.

With far you could do an higher acceleration in the beginning getting out of the thick atmosphere faster, problem would be the twr as you have to have something aerodynamic.

[cerberusti]

I have been considering trying this (not much left to do, my last two missions were an eve water launch and a SST Laythe and back.)

Does that 22km/s include an error margin, or is that absolute minimum?

Also, what do your kerbin relative TWRs look like, and is there anything else non-obvious which would be helpful to know?

[magnemoe]

I have been considering trying this (not much left to do, my last two missions were an eve water launch and a SST Laythe and back.)

Does that 22km/s include an error margin, or is that absolute minimum?

Also, what do your kerbin relative TWRs look like, and is there anything else non-obvious which would be helpful to know?

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/50242-Jool-accent-the-imposible-chalenge

This describe it pretty good, in fact is below 21Km/s http://imgur.com/gXuH4vq

Twr has to be high in the start as you can not run engines too high or they overheat, think they was less than 80% in the start, only nice thing is that Jool have lighter gravity than Kerbin.

I had 1200 m/s left in orbit, so you could do it with 20 km/s, the last problem is the gravity turn, you need 5500 m/s to reach orbit, you have to go up too 120 km before the drag become an minor issue, start turning to fast is worse than to high.

[Sirrobert]

It's hilarious that with a ship that big all that could actually get off Jool was one Kerbal in a chair lol.

Bravo sir

I like how that Kerbal on a chair has the most deltaV of all stages

[Tidus Klein]

Hats off to you sir.....Now go take a nap and eat something other then cornchips, and you could probable use a nice shower.

[magnemoe]

I like how that Kerbal on a chair has the most deltaV of all stages

The two Lv-N stages har more dV, the small upper stage is more gain a bit more dV and most of all TWR so you don't fall down again.

However the LV-N stages was a mistake, had been smarter to just use 48-7S after I was done with aerospikes,