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Details
- Type: SPH
- Class: spaceplane
- Part Count: 106
- Mods: 3
Mods
- Explodium Breathing Engines
- Ferram Aerospace Research
- Squad (stock)
Description
A production single stage to Eve orbit space plane for Alien Space Programs.
Named after a certain naysayer in the KSP forum telling me I wouldn’t get off Eve’s surface.
Flight plan is similar to the previous weird craft
published for Eve. Stage turbofans, climb to about 5 km. Stage ramjets, zoom-climb to about 8 km and level off. Begin to pick up speed here. Stage Vectors at about 18-19 km and 1000 m/s, accelerate to an apoapsis of 60 km (Realistic Atmospheres). Close orbit at AP.
Returning should be a little easier than previous designs thanks to use of Mk2 tanks and Big-S series wings. Set PE to about 32 km about 40 degrees west of your intended landing zone. Change flaps setting from +15 to -15 degrees, and use Flaps 3 to help maintain 10-15 degrees pitch on descent. Be really careful to avoid flipping over. Restore flaps setting to +15 (slowly!) after slowing down to about 750 m/s at about 20-25 km up.
You can use the turbofans to fly home. Use reverse thrust if you wish. Stage drogues on touchdown.
