Weekly Challenge #7 - Land on Eve

[autumn belfry]

#KSP2weeklychallenge is here! This week, Land on Eve!

🏆 Primary: Land a vehicle (crewed or uncrewed) on Eve
🏆 Stretch: Land a vehicle on Eve that you're pretty sure could survive the landing even after re-entry heat is added to the game (warning: we'll be asking you to re-fly this craft when re-entry heat is added to the game)
🏆 Jeb Level: Land a vehicle at as high an altitude as you can on Eve (your screenshot should show the altimeter set to Sea Level mode)
🏆 Val Level: Land a crewed vehicle on Eve and return that crew safely to Kerbin

[true kite]

cant wait to do this!

[native needle]

Oooh boi, that's gonna be difficult

[tropic crescent]

how to land on eve by me

step 1: unlock full control of all of your bodys functions and learn how to use 100% of your brain
step 2: make a rocket that can do it
step 3: land on eve

how to return from eve:
step 1: UNLOCK YOUR ENTIRE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND TAKE OVER THE 4TH DIMENSION
step 2: MENTALLY PREPARE YOURSELF BY STOCKING UP THOUSANDS OF MONITORS KEYBOARDS AND MICE
step 3: blow up your whole rocket while attempting to leave eve
step 4: become god
step 5: now you have a 0.5% chance of making it

[normal relic]

Next challenge will be a Jool 5 mission 💀

[austere solstice]

Oh dear! Step 1 seems to set me up for failure already! I might give the primary goal a try though!

[true kite]

Going for Stretch, Wish me luck!

(Ive got the rocket built and going to orbit, slowmode is prolly gonna prevent me, 1:18PM)
(Got eve encounter and all i need to do is orbit, 1:36 PM)

I have the challenge done, i have the pics to prove it. For some reason it deleted my message and now im on 30 min slowmode. this is ridiculous! (1:54PM)

[misty sable]

Next challenge will be exit the kerbolar system and return

[lofty folio]

Val level seems easier than Jeb level for some reason

[blazing iris]

Hope this challenge will be on-going when reentry update will come out

[true kite]

Stretch goal complete! Had to land on my un-opened parachute because theres a bug where it wont open. Fun challenge and im sure it can survive when reentry heat is added! (EVA hatch is also obstructed ) [Also i completed mine first at 1:54 PM, just issues with slowmode]

[lusty spear]

Hi i did val level, patch please

[rancid obsidian]

I have arrived at Eve, not landing on it because otherwise well...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727679603346374706/1091752290416857218/image.png

[true kite]

btw was the first to post in this challenge, just had issues bc i uploaded too many images for Automod
(I have proof too)

[late violet]

being completely transparent, my computer was running quite poorly when doing this so i used my phone camera to capture it. hopefully that explains why there are some scratches, a light, and some goofy colors. Cheers!

[stuck nebula]

I pretty sure the heat shield was overkill but would survive reentry but ended up in the ocean and had to swim to shore. Bill at the end is trying to figure out who the cameraman was as he when to Eve alone.

[fervent gazelle]

so im presuming val level would require craft capable of withstanding the heat right, just like thumbs up this if that is true as to not waste the slowmode cooldown if u wanna, but pls lmk

[hushed copper]

prob, but im just going to see if i can somehow pull off a miracle, not feeling the need to deal with docking on paper i think i might have something, a work in progress eeeep

[vale sonnet]

Somehow made it to Eve. I have a feeling this won't be able to make it with re-entry heating...

[lusty spear]

wheres my patch for doing this

[sweet hazel]

you’ll get it in like 2 weeks

[fair valve]

done

[clear parcel]

did you use the reverse engine trick?

[hazy glacier]

In order to cut costs and reach our budget goals, The Duna Company Inc. made it to Eve's surface with the same lander used to reach Duna. However, the vessel seems to wobble uncontrollably upon landing, perhaps evidence of seismic activity on the surface of Eve?

[worthy prawn]

Working on my super over-engineered eve lander.

[ebon hearth]

i did it!

[wicked void]

Tim C Kerman when he hears he isn't coming home.

[lime tulip]

Since my Evera probe won't work for this I'm gonna build one of my more traditional landers and send it straight into Eve without carrying it on an orbiter first.

[inland pelican]

https://youtu.be/0Bd8F6O_BD8 Just finished the stretch goal.

[lime tulip]

I tried launching it but my rocket collapsed to pieces the moment the SRBs ran out

[shrewd halo]

After much blood, sweat, tears, and lost braincells, I finally finished the val level for this challenge. In kerbal style, I forgot to include a chute for the renetry for kerbin, so Bob had EVA for a nice SAFE splash in the ocean at 200 m/s. Thank god for struts and burn through timewarp, bc my interplanetary stage had .10 twr.

[hasty scaffold]

Yeah i used the kraken for that one

[solid ice]

Little probe on surface of eve,

[elfin lodge]

I just landed my rover! It was really fun but sadly I am Media banned so can’t share it :/

[unreal condor]

Primary: Starship splashdown (has landing legs so could have landed on land)

[gloomy chasm]

We might make it back to orbit but I at least landed safely

[languid plaza]

Primary goal achieved: landed on Eve, one way trip. https://imgur.com/a/5fVyD64
Now to build this in KSP and try there to see if it'll survive re-entry.

[lone acorn]

Primary and stretch goals

[carmine socket]

stranger in a strange land
(stretch goal)

[pastel badger]

Landed in the water, but it worked out except for the heat shield not wanting to decouple

[lofty folio]

no one tell them about the mid-flight breakup which made this go from jeb level to either primary or strech level depending on how you look at it (as it slowed down before breaking up)

[autumn gyro]

Did not even bring a ladder to bring him back into the craft.. I think maybe this would survive heating.
stages: ||4x Clydesdale to get to space, Rhino for steering and orbit, Poodle and 8x Dawns for transfer and Eve orbit, Vector for the last part ||

[hushed geyser]

night time

[ruby mica]

Eve Rover. Stretch goal, can land when entry-heating is enabled.

[lone zenith]

Landed this two-crew rover. Working on a better delivery system with fairings and heatshields for the stretch goal.

[half glade]

Made it, ran out of fuel, and fell through the floor

[static void]

(the solar panels wern't ment to survive)

[sweet hazel]

I did it! Sadly these kerbals are never going home, but im now 7/7 for challenged :D (and im pretty sure it will complete stretch goal if i chuck on a heatshield)

[lime tulip]

Well... um... I think I did it... For some reason my parachute refused to deploy and then my lander splashed into the ocean and sank to the seafloor. But... it is in one piece and it is designed to withstand entry heating.

[dusty hull]

After it’ll be a grand tour 💀 with landing on every planet

[craggy patio]

Small base on eve

[tropic crescent]

average eve mission (5 heatshields and no return going for a stretch)

[hushed copper]

still a ways to go yet, but have a return ship in orbit, and hopefully a ship that can take of...., if it doesnt end up in the sea, i'll try again tomorrow, the last stage is a hoot, 2k delta of bob just rocking a gimbal on a can

[worthy prawn]

Stretch Goal: Im very confident this would survive reentry heating.

[fervent willow]

The Sea Dragon leviathan has a heat proof skin so of course it can survive reentry heat
#🔹ksp2_screenshots message

[edgy sparrow]

Val Level: I created a rocket for up to 5 Kerbals that is able to land and get back to orbit from Eve (I just forgot to put 5 in so only Valentina is actually flying that thing to the time I made that screenshot).

In orbit was my interplanetary shuttle to move around the Kerbolar-System. With Solar Modules, Gilly Lander (which sended two Kerbals to Gilly and back).
It even had a small Eve scout plane on board (sadly not reusable, since not that much fuel) to check out how Eve looks below its cloud layer as preparation for the mission.

I did the mission in early march with the release version. I sadly don't have that many screenshots of it, in case thats not enough I'm gonna redo the entire mission.

[lime tulip]

pictured: my Eve lander

[ornate totem]

i hope this counts lmao

[grim depot]

I made it! kinda probably gonna have to send a rescue mission in like 90 years when I remember they are there

[hushed copper]

Bit disheartened at the end result, but I had fun! I got a return vessel in orbit over eve, designed what i think can make it off eve, quite the odd build, but has 12k delta and 2.5ish t/w all through the stages but it always ends in me either blowing up on land or sinking through the mesh if i pulse the stage to blow off a couple extra m/s. I'll rethink but sorry bob.. your lost to eves core bud 😦

[dry tapir]

Does this count?

[dry tapir]

It was looking good until I realized you can't jettison the inflatable shield, but then it blew up on landing and took the engine with it

[weak jewel]

Planes dont work people. I was smashed to smithereens after trying to land on my one remaining wing. 😦

[lusty spear]

wow this was a terrible challenge to introduce while the game is still very buggy and broken

[weak jewel]

Second attempt a bit better, but too low on fuel so theres no way home even if i could point the thing the right way up! RIP Bill. Parachutes work better than wings but even landing at 10m/s still tore off some of my landing legs!

[dry tapir]

Redid the mission successfully, with the exception that the ladder doesn't reach the ground so my poor Kerbonaut is stuck there until I can send a rescue

[dusty hull]

to be honest that ship isn't going to be able to get anywhere near orbit even if the ladder worked

[dry tapir]

True

[austere solstice]

Bill and Bob decided Erlan would have the honor of getting in the lander, as Eve starts with the letter E... And so the Erlan has stranded I might have to give the mission another try one day...

[clever hollow]

Challenge complete. Just did the primary goal because Eve is a beast, good luck to everyone trying the higher goals!

[glacial glen]

I spent most of a day working on my ship designed to land and launch from Eve similar to how I do it in KSP1 (onion peeling) but the fairings that I place around the ship to get it into Kerbin orbit are not shielding it from the air physics. You can still see the airstream from wing tips on parts inside the fairing and things get pulled outside the fairing by air drag. Without the fairing, I still have to deal with structural failures between decouplers because of this drag pulling on parts in a way they were not meant to be pulled on. So I will not be participating any further in this challenge on account of bugged fairing physics because getting to and landing on Eve has never been the challenge for me. It's the launch back into orbit that is the true test of game physics completion.

[vocal ermine]

Bob Kerman sacrificed himself for the good of Kerbalkind, there is no way he is making it back to Kerbin, however that was a risk he was willing to take. All for the good of science! You will be missed Bob, until next playthrough. o7

[wet oxide]

Landed an Unmanned Glider on Eve, my piloting skills are not good enough for landing so I resort to parachutes

[fleet veldt]

Finally landed on Eve after a lot of problems. Maybe it could also land with re-entry heat added to the game, but the thrusters would burn up because they are not covered by the shield.

[rancid obsidian]

With the patch out, lets see if I can safely land (and remain landed)

[gray fox]

slamed with 16.5 m/s in the ground but he survived

[ruby mica]

Blooper

[turbid vine]

wasn't able to get a screenshot of the landing because It was too laggy. 2 FPS.

[viral atlas]

Made it! Probably should survive if there was heat... Hopefully

[dusty hull]

I just finished my eve return mission - I have a 2 hour video that I need to edit now

[humble sedge]

I think i brought enough parachutes.

[frail merlin]

Anyone have a successful return mission? How the heck do you build in enough dV to get back off of Eve?

[hushed blaze]

Did the stretch! The head shield should hold when re-entry is implemented.

[glacial glen]

I gave up on trying to get my onion ship into Kerbin Orbit (the one that would later land and take off from Eve Surface) so I just slapped this one way probe lander and used it to test out Eve's current Aerobraking effects at very low Pe on first entry (low enough that it should burn up on entry). Landed in the night and advanced the clock to day to see the results.

[gusty pike]

Two messages before yours, tortoise says he returned. I'm in the same position...no idea how to get the 8000dv suggested by the trip planner to get off eve

[dusty hull]

I did (haven't edited the video so no proof yet): The only engine that's really viable are vectors. Most engines don't have good enough ISP, and the ones that do (like the aerospike) don't have enough thrust. After that, just build a massive onion-staged rocket with parachutes. Also make sure to test your rocket using something like lazy orbit to land it on eve

[humble sedge]

nailed it.

[dusty hull]

how many parachutes are there 💀

[humble sedge]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WGlAmMvcLsY

[desert raven]

Bob landed on eve with no way of getting back, but he is also pretty tired from sitting in a cockpit for 372 days or something like that.

[acoustic summit]

Bill had the immense joy of watching the sunset into his watery landing. He got out of the craft for a momentary watery ride before thinking better of it and quickly tucking himself back inside to wait for rescue.

[novel halo]

Made a Orbiter Lander combo

[dusty hull]

My eve return video. It's only my second ksp2 video so it's admittedly not the best quality but it will improve over time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO7cNaMSPK4&ab_channel=Tortle6

Funny enough, this is my first Val-level challenge (also am I the first person in this thread to successfully do a return mission?)

[sweet hazel]

i dont think youre the first sorry

[undone pier]

I made an underwater probe? Made a discovery that there are small rock under the water.

[dusty hull]

@humble sedge @frail merlin thought you might be interested in this

[opaque dock]

Landed on Eve the first time!

[vital dew]

Splashed down on Eve! (My probe appears to have sunk to the ocean floor though)

[hazy jetty]

Well, more parachutes needed for next landing 😄

[random basin]

Did the primary goal https://youtu.be/sYJu2PeLYg8 (still have no idea how to recover them)

[lusty spear]

where my val level badge?

[frozen jolt]

My mission to Eve. Tried to do it on several levels. I hope that this tube will be able to protect this space plane from heating despite the poor aerodynamics of this tube. Then he tried to find the highest point, but found only such a mountain and the plane ran out of fuel. But it was fun to fly over Eve )

[open sparrow]

I can't seem to be able to post any screenshots on those thread (weekly challenges), does anybody have an idea why ? Image size / format ? (they're jpeg). Everytime I join pics to a message, it gets deleted instantly by the bot...

[frozen jolt]

how many you trying? i have a problem that i tried post more than 5

[broken cloak]

Without any effective way to test an Eve return vehicle, I wasn't near ready to commit to a manned mission, so probes it is. While I certainly didn't find the highest hill (that said, Eve in KSP 2 has substantially lower peaks than KSP 1-what's with KSP 2's diminished verticality?), I did happen across this nice lake valley.

[open sparrow]

Since I can't post any screenshots (for some reason the bot takes my messages down), I'm posting a link to imgur with the screens. https://imgur.com/gallery/pnV9n7E

I initially wanted to send the hydrogen ship, then the huge Eve lander then rendez-vous the two in LKO for docking. But as I've encountered too many bugs with undocking, and saves loading it was simpler to make a very big launcher for everything in one go. The framerate was a bit painful, but remained playable.

Weight is everything so, huge mass out, very little mass back as the return rocket itself was very tiny. I managed to get back to Eve's orbit from sea-ish level with 4-5k dV remaining though, so I stopped by Gilly to drop a little flag on the way back (forgot the screen). The huge lander has many heat shields on decouplers, I'm not sure it will survive re-entry once it's added, but I'll give it a go !

@frozen jolt I tried everything, post 10, post less than 4, reduce the size, change the format... If any one has any idea, I'll take it !

[mild orbit]

I sent a probe since I didn't want to design a return-capable craft. Also set up a relay network around Eve.

[ruby mica]

First manned mission to EVE and did so successfully

[karmic bronze]

Well, technically it is landed (thanks god quick saves are a thing)

[open sparrow]

That little ship managed to get back to Eve's orbit ? I need to review my designs... Looks like it lacks at least 100t of fuel ^^

[white hemlock]

How did that make it to orbit? There’s no way that has 12k delta v

[dusty hull]

is it just me or do those look like vacuum engines

Also for reference this is my eve lander (thumbnail) and it had 1 km/s of delta v in orbit

https://youtu.be/PO7cNaMSPK4

[white hemlock]

[Val Lvl Difficulty] This challenge was by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do in KSP 1 or 2. I had no idea how hard it was to leave Eve before starting this challenge and it took me around 20 attempts and redesigns to actually accomplish it. Even despite this I could not find a way with the current ladder mechanics so that Bill Kerban could even reach the ground to plant a flag lol. I am very much looking forward to never having to leave Eve again! Had extra dv so I landed at KSC >:).

Everybody still working on it keep going! Its worth the pain of the bugs and kracken attacks. Took me about 50 hours though

[dusty hull]

Wow that’s a lot smaller than my lander

Also 50 hours is insane, my Val level was done in 3 - 4 hours and one evening. That’s some next level dedication

[white hemlock]

Did you get any bugs with quick saving/loading in the atmosphere? It would corrupt my save file whenever I attempted it and my craft would explode in all other saves previous after that which was extremely frustrating. That was probably a good 20hrs dealing with that right there. But mostly it was inexperience, I last played ksp when I was like 11 years old and I’m re-learning as I go!

[lusty spear]

that sounds terrible lol

[dusty hull]

No bugs like that, only the parachutes being closed when quickloading

[humble sedge]

Launch was scrubbed for week 7. I'll push this back to week 15. I think that counts as doing this challenge.

[dusty hull]

ah yes delaying challenge = doing it

[humble sedge]

It's the space x way

[stone token]

Landed my first ever probe on Eve! at 946m above Sea Level, I did forget the heat shield so probably wouldn't survive with the re-entry heat added.

[kindred heart]

Primary challenge complete with a bonus fully functional relay network. There were actually 3 rovers in the delivery vehicle but one of the landing gear got pulled under the terrain by the kraken and the delivery vehicle rolled over and then got yeeted by the kraken and broke up. Somehow, all of the rovers survived. However, this was the only rover that landed right side up.

[lilac snow]

a bit late to the party, but i made the stretch goal :)
https://imgur.com/a/saxRxzx

[arctic cape]

Seems like anything over 5 photos will prevent the entire message from posting.

[pulsar ether]

Made a rover and landed on Eve. The mothership then returned home on Kerbin. I am 100% certain the rover would be incinerated into a fine mist if thermal systems were currently in the game, but I am looking forward to doing this mission again when that is the case.

[blazing iris]

Here nice shots. My rocket CAN land on Eve and return, but game isn't stable and ebery tume catched critical bugs. Hope they will disappear after heat patch, and I'll win round 2

[hollow tendon]

Before discovering (thanks "no situational dV/TWR displays!") that my SRBs and Skipper were practically useless on Eve, this was my first attempt (also marred by issues with struts and decouplers) -- Lander leaning over

Second attempt, with ZERO expectation of them ever leaving their capsule, and protected by a 2.5m inflatable heat-shield (and a 1000 km x 60 km entry-path)

[split spindle]

Well... I was going for Val mode (which is a massive pita with all the bugs; vehicles that big, I spend at least as much time fighting the UI and camera as building craft, and a mission with this many stages generally needs to be run at least a dozen times before it all goes off without any kraken attacks or other weird bugs).

In any case, I carefully designed a craft capable of doing the mission... or so I thought!

I landed a fully fueled return vehicle with 8700 m/s of dV for launch to Eve orbit and another 2200 for Kerbin return trajectory, almost 1 km/s above what was strictly required, so plenty of performance.

Sadly, once the Vectors I used to get through the thickest of the atmosphere and start to build momentum, were gone, along with their amazing thrust vectoring, all I had left were five Darts (aerospikes).

They're super efficient sustainers on Eve... but with no thrust vectoring, the craft turned out to be aerodynamically unstable, immediately flipping over and failing to reach space.

After fighting the game to do this mission for over a week now, with dozens of attempts and nine separate designs before I finally came upon one that didn't immediately disintegrate due to floopy joints and faulty glue, I'm just gonna accept Stretch mode and/or Jeb mode and call it a day.

P.S. 30 minute slow-mode, with mysterious rules about screenshots that just don't post anything if you have too many, along with the possibility of accidentally forgetting to Shift+enter? Suuuper annoying, just sayin'...

[shut warren]

Went for stretch/Jeb Level this week. I sent this cute little rover to Eve in NASA's signature Mars Rover-style. The protective shell and heatshield should allow it to survive reentry once heating is added. The shield drops away once the main chute is inflated, and the shell contains some Seperatrons that lift it away from the rover once on the surface. I managed to land at excactly 1km elevation, but there are some nice mountains in the vicinity that our little roving friend could drive toward if need be!

[compact heath]

Val level, maybe? Not sure if the same vehicle that landed needed to be used to return but I made something that could work. Heat levels should be mitigated easily with the design but more can be added if needed.

[quartz remnant]

Weekly Challenge 7 - Land on Eve attempt (Stretch goal): I was about to do a Val level goal but realized that the gravity and especially the atmosphere were more extreme than Kerbin.
It has 4 layers of heatshields attached to it so when reentry heat is added, it would hopefully survive from reentry to landing.

[novel kayak]

Stretch goal, initially wanted to go back but I severely underestimated Eve's gravity, now I have a transfer vehicle stuck in Eve orbit, rescue mission should be easy tho

[acoustic niche]

Unfortunately came down in the dark and could not see where the ground was. Fortunately Jeb has been in need of a relaxing cruise voyage.

[robust hornet]

Eve mission - primary level

https://youtu.be/NRBo8A_NJOc

[supple sierra]

Landed... but not coming home.

[hushed blaze]

Made it to Eve!

[coarse lodge]

I'm fairly certain this could survive atmospheric reentry but it does not land upright ;-;

[rustic elm]

[granite briar]

i think i did it

[lethal oriole]

Rover mission! this thing has no torque lol, you have to use switchbacks to get up any decent kind of grade

[warped saddle]

i hope they add the capybara version of that flag to the game

[blissful marlin]

Why is this not locked?
it is a weekly challenge

[misty sable]

Its still on going

[fast panther]

Another Happy Landing...

[oak shale]

Successfully returned a Kerbal from Eve for the first time in KSP2

[dusty hull]

woah how much delta v does that first stage have? I think I may need to redesign my eve lander if it can be that small

[oak shale]

I'm actually not sure, the game was giving me wild numbers all over the place during design so I was not sure it would have enough to get off Eve. I tested on Kerbin and could get to orbit with some fuel left in one Dart booster pair and the center core full, and the center core has about 5000 DV between the two stages, so I was pretty sure that would be enough. Asparagus staging makes all the difference here, keeps the center core full until all the boosters fall away.

[late stump]

The atmospheric density really caught me by surprise. Returning must require so much delta-V.