Eve Heavy Lift Challenge

[bhauth]

Jeb has discovered that mixing kerosene, mystery goo, and liquid from Eve's oceans creates a room temperature superconductor. So, he's looking for companies to make craft to lift liquid from Eve.

THE CHALLENGE

1. From anywhere on the surface of Eve, lift a full 4.5 ton tank (or equivalent propellant) AND a Mk1 command pod (the black one, Jeb's favorite), to a stable orbit.

2. Due to a supply shortage, the 48-7S engine (that's the small 0.1t one) cannot be used.

3. You can use Mechjeb and Kerbal Engineer. You can use Hyperedit to bring your craft to Eve. Other mods are not allowed.

4. Jeb says, "No craft with more than 400 parts, because the Kraken'll eat 'em."

HOW TO HYPEREDIT

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/hyperedit/

Set orbit to a high orbit around Eve.

Cancel out orbit speed with negative orbit speed.

Use the ship lander.

There's a tall mountain at around: -24.996 lat / -158.472 lon.

Score is your craft weight at launch, without landing gear.

Edited April 29, 2014 by bhauth

[bhauth]

Well, I went ahead and did it. With a spaceplane. A 212 ton, 225 part spaceplane. It's not very optimized or anything, and my piloting was bad because I was managing screenshots, so I know someone can do better.

http://imgur.com/a/R0hAM

Mechjeb does not seem to like the LFB KR-1x2.

Edited April 30, 2014 by bhauth