Ion glider collier trophy!

[GoSlash27]

Congratulations! You broke the challenge and made history!

Edited November 18, 2014 by GoSlash27

[The_Rocketeer]

Tsevion, you have utterly dominated this challenge despite a significant absense.

From someone who really tried hard to achieve this first, and couldn't even come close: I applaud you.

[numerobis]

Holy crap. Congrats!

When you're hauling a Kerbal up, do you burn enough Xe to make it worthwhile to drop some spare tanks?

[Tsevion]

Holy crap. Congrats!

When you're hauling a Kerbal up, do you burn enough Xe to make it worthwhile to drop some spare tanks?

Yeah... if it wasn't trying to be an SSTO you could definitely use some drop tanks to make it more efficient. You could easily carry a bit more Xenon at launch, when lift is abundant and ditch the tanks later.

[Tsevion]

Congratulations! You broke the challenge and made history!

From someone who really tried hard to achieve this first, and couldn't even come close: I applaud you.

Thanks

Now I crawl back into hiding until 0.9 hits, with a new drag model it'll be a whole new competition. Maybe they'll also fix massless parts (maybe have them just add mass to whatever base part they're attached to... should keep the perf gains, yet keep physics less insane).

[Yakky]

Congrats, Tsevion. It's a huge accomplishment and a red-letter day for Kerbals everywhere! Btw hadn't realized the batteries were massless... Oops.

[MabDeno]

Well done Tsevion! After all the effort that has gone into this challenge I now feel we have 'the right to smirk' when anyone says its impossible to get an ion craft to orbit.

[Deddly]

This thread has been a very interesting read and I congratulate the collaborated effort to acheive something that many thought was impossible. Tsevion, I'm wondering how high/fast your craft would perform on eve if you make it unmanned?

[bakanando]

Congrats to Tsevion for achieving the (almost) impossible! Also kudos to Slash, MabDeno and The Rocketeer for their achievements and efforts in pushing this forward to the realm of the possible!