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So I've been playing quite a lot of Kerbal Space Program of late. It's a fun rocketry simulator/space sandbox game, but don't take the cartoony little green men to mean that it's an easy game. The science behind the game is deceptively robust and realistic, and even achieving a stable orbit of Kerbin (the local Earth analogue) takes some doing.
Anyhoo, the basic concept of the game is simple: you've got a star system to explore, a space centre to launch and coordinate your missions, and an endless supply of rocket parts with which to design your own fleet of spaceships to take an similarly endless supply of Kerbonauts to the heavens. Great fun for a space fan such as myself!
Lately, after building a fairly successful space station, I decided to try for a landing on the Mun, Kerbin's major natural satellite. Paying close attention to a helpful tutorial on the KSP wiki (and reloading previous saves quite a bit), I was finally able to land a Kerbonaut on the Mun's surface... only to find that I hadn't provided enough fuel for a return voyage. Whoops.
Anyhoo, the basic concept of the game is simple: you've got a star system to explore, a space centre to launch and coordinate your missions, and an endless supply of rocket parts with which to design your own fleet of spaceships to take an similarly endless supply of Kerbonauts to the heavens. Great fun for a space fan such as myself!
Lately, after building a fairly successful space station, I decided to try for a landing on the Mun, Kerbin's major natural satellite. Paying close attention to a helpful tutorial on the KSP wiki (and reloading previous saves quite a bit), I was finally able to land a Kerbonaut on the Mun's surface... only to find that I hadn't provided enough fuel for a return voyage. Whoops.
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Absolutely! I don't think I can do it without cheats :(
Eve has something like 3x the atmosphere and gravity density of Kerbin, so you need 3 times the amount of fuel to get into orbit of Eve as you do Kerbin. And for that 3 times the amount of fuel, you need another 9 times the amount of fuel to get it off the ground! And thats ON EVE! You need way more fuel to get all that other fuel from Kerbin to Eve in the first place!
My plan was to get a few unmanned ships into orbit of Eve, one that can go back to Kerbin, one carrying fuel, and a craft that can land on, launch off, and get back into orbit of Eve, and have Jeb transfer over to the other craft already in orbit!
Ahhh so much fuel required.
Eve has something like 3x the atmosphere and gravity density of Kerbin, so you need 3 times the amount of fuel to get into orbit of Eve as you do Kerbin. And for that 3 times the amount of fuel, you need another 9 times the amount of fuel to get it off the ground! And thats ON EVE! You need way more fuel to get all that other fuel from Kerbin to Eve in the first place!
My plan was to get a few unmanned ships into orbit of Eve, one that can go back to Kerbin, one carrying fuel, and a craft that can land on, launch off, and get back into orbit of Eve, and have Jeb transfer over to the other craft already in orbit!
Ahhh so much fuel required.
Jesus. Looks like that'll be quite a serious undertaking.
I suppose you could always try building an ultralight escape rocket on a lander, so you could drop the ship onto the surface safely but not have too much weight to take back up. As long as you can get something back up into a stable orbit, you'd be pretty much in the clear bar fuel tankers or something.
I suppose you could always try building an ultralight escape rocket on a lander, so you could drop the ship onto the surface safely but not have too much weight to take back up. As long as you can get something back up into a stable orbit, you'd be pretty much in the clear bar fuel tankers or something.
Well, that might help. Parachute a shuttle down, load Jeb into it and burn hard for space!
And that might do the trick. Maybe bolt a few SRBs on the sides via decouplers just for a bit of extra oomph. With any luck, once you get Jeb's capsule into space, you'll have enough left to establish a stable orbit, then you can just bring a drive section up, hook them up and take him home again.
And that might do the trick. Maybe bolt a few SRBs on the sides via decouplers just for a bit of extra oomph. With any luck, once you get Jeb's capsule into space, you'll have enough left to establish a stable orbit, then you can just bring a drive section up, hook them up and take him home again.
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