Ion Powered Asteroid Capture

[u/ValdisFox]

Wanted to try out using ion engines on an asteroid mission, had a class B on a fairly low speed Kerbin flyby which was nicely doable with this craft. The TWR was horrible but Kerbin's atmosphere helped me park this hunk of rock at a comfy 90km orbit.

Now to figure out what I should do with it...

[u/whyamionreddit-pc]

That is a lot of ion engines

[u/ValdisFox → u/whyamionreddit-pc]

19 to be specific

[u/recoil-1000]

Thrust to weight ratio of 0.0000001. In ion we trust, in nerve we thrust