MaverickSawyer
Acolyte of the Probe
No, with aerobraking, all you need is the atmosphere. If it were thinning, then we got problems.
No, with aerobraking, all you need is the atmosphere. If it were thinning, then we got problems.
Wil this affect yours aerobrakeing?
http://www.universetoday.com/93494/is-venus-rotation-slowing-down/
Do you have a forward docking port on your modules that you are trying to send to Venus? If so, I can kludge together a heat shield for you with SC3, then convert it to a .dll.
OK I have a prototype aeroshell here for you. Right now, it's exclusively SC3, and you need to have that addon installed to run it, since I am still making tweaks to it.
FYI, the little red circle on the flat part is your docking target, and the textures and meshes are a little crude for the time being, since this is not final.
Enjoy and try it out, then report any problems or suggestions.
Give me a mass and size of your modules, and the location of the docking port relative to the axis of the center of mass. I'll spin something up in Sketchup and throw together a SC3 file, then run it through Artlav's converter. Since it will not have any thrusters, the bug of losing exhaust textures will not be a concern, and you can have as many as you want in the scenario.
Hi, this sounds like an interesting project! However, it is a manned interplanetary mission, so you will need some 'mass movers', that is powerful interplanetary transport vessels.
Some of the proposed near-future Mars vessels would probably fit:
Mars 1994 – Russian Mars Transfer Vehicle 1.0
Crew Transfer Vehicles (CTV)
Mars For Less V1.6
RSC Energia Manned Mars Mission
NTR core propulsion stage
My proposal would be to move a manned station to Venus orbit, controlling unmanned landers and vehicles on the Venusian surface. Keep in mind, you will need a Venus departure stage for Earth return as well, the CEV will not have enough dV to do it alone.
Ok, I can scale it down when I export it to .msh format. It's currently 20m in diameter. How much smaller do you want it?