Majorjim! Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 (edited) I hope he doesn't mind me posting this. Thought I would share it as I have never seen this done before, Single launch, 37,000 m/s dv... Edited June 26, 2016 by Majorjim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trentendegreth Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 that's Sic... just wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 "A small deep-space correction burn"Several enormous pillars of flameBut yeah, that is pretty epic. I've seen Kerbin-Eve-Kerbin-Eve-Kerbin done with rendezvous, but to do it without is something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodo42 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Whoah whoah whoah.Where's a link for this?As far as I know this is forum user metaphor's post. Given the name similarity, the reddit user is probably the same person, but on the off chance they're not, one of these two blatantly stole something epic from the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilo1146 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 It isn't probably the same person, it's the exact same everything, right down to the imgur album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Impressive, very impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Tadpole Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 My computer would implode with a rocket THAT size... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NASAFanboy Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Not a first, but certainly an huge accomplishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratzenblitz75 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Holy **** that is amazing. I have no words... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pecan Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Oops - I thought Kashua was the one that did Eve and back twice originally. (Still haven't tried returning from a landing there even once myself). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainbow-Dashie Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I can barely get to Eve and land on it... let alone get back to kerbin... then back to Eve.... Then back to Kerbin again :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerbart Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Wow. Scott Manley just got pwned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFred Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Not impressed. Landing sites were around 8,000m. Let me know when it's done from sea level (<100m). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshins Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 that was awesome. i went to eve once. i died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NFUN Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) Not impressed. Landing sites were around 8,000m. Let me know when it's done from sea level (<100m).I expect we will be expecting your Eve2 submission shortly?That is not to say criticism requires experience, but at least give feats you consider more impressive to serve as contrast, or you risk sounding arrogant and belittling. Edited October 20, 2014 by NFUN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Not impressed. Landing sites were around 8,000m. Let me know when it's done from sea level (<100m).Tough crowd.Eve ascent is one of the game's big challenges, even from high altitude it's not exactly easy. To do it twice, without refueling or docking, with a return to Kerbin's surface in between, is simply amazing. Pity I just repped metaphor for a land-on-all-four-moons-of-Jupiter RSS mission and can't rep again for this one. Serious KSP skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NecroBones Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Holy crap, that's amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFred Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I expect we will be expecting your Eve2 submission shortly?That is not to say criticism requires experience, but at least give feats you consider more impressive to serve as contrast, or you risk sounding arrogant and belittling.When I get time. I've said it before, the first 8000dV Eve is easy, it's the next 5,000 that's a pain. Maybe I'm an Eve snob, but landing at the highest point on Eve and returning is the equivalent of being air lifted to the Hillary Step, and then claiming I climbed Mt Everest. I did build a two man lander can that launched from KSC and ascended from Eve sea level in a single go - and yes, it's documented on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overfloater Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) Not impressed. Landing sites were around 8,000m. Let me know when it's done from sea level (<100m).Because it is very easy to precisely land on that specific spot on that one specific mountain? :-ledit: ...Well actually I do recall reading someone's post, saying if you set periapsis to 80km, you land exactly under it. I recently tested it on a 100km orbit, and it pretty much worked. Perhaps it is easy after all :-p Edited October 20, 2014 by Overfloater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 When I get time. I've said it before, the first 8000dV Eve is easy, it's the next 5,000 that's a pain.You realize that the ship packed 8km/s for the ascent twice, so that's 16km/s there. Plus whatever was required to transfer to Kerbin, land, ascend again, and transfer back to Eve. And then transfer back to Kerbin and land after all that.This is way harder than a sea-level ascent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtoro Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Impressive, however,I do find the use of only a command seat for these things to be a cheat. Might as well just use a probe... I'd like to see him do it with a proper lander can or pod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Impressive, however,I do find the use of only a command seat for these things to be a cheat. Might as well just use a probe... I'd like to see him do it with a proper lander can or podPossible, but would take a rocket over six times as large, over 40,000 tons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFred Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) You realize that the ship packed 8km/s for the ascent twice, so that's 16km/s there. Plus whatever was required to transfer to Kerbin, land, ascend again, and transfer back to Eve. And then transfer back to Kerbin and land after all that.This is way harder than a sea-level ascent.Impressive, however,I do find the use of only a command seat for these things to be a cheat. Might as well just use a probe... I'd like to see him do it with a proper lander can or podI didn't even realize it was a command chair, I've had a 19000+dV lander can vehicle in the past. Had it been with a command chair that would have been more than enough - and there were no jet engines.I'm not doggin' on the guy and saying his craft and mission suck. I'm just not impressed by any high elevation and command chair craft. I know I got dismissed in the "Lightest Eve Lander" thread by saying the same thing, but a command chair at 8,000m just makes me go all McKayla Maroney regardless of what else went on. Edited October 20, 2014 by EdFred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I didn't even realize it was a command chair, I've had a 19000+dV lander can vehicle in the past. Had it been with a command chair that would have been more than enough - and there were no jet engines.I'm not doggin' on the guy and saying his craft and mission suck. I'm just not impressed by any high elevation and command chair craft. I know I got dismissed in the "Lightest Eve Lander" thread by saying the same thing, but a command chair at 8,000m just makes me go all McKayla Maroney regardless of what else went on.Sounds very impressive, got a pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duxwing Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 O_O Your engineering is awesome!-Duxwing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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