Hottest planet safe to land on

[disorganise]

Just curious if anyone has tried successfully landed on hot planets and where the approximate limit is?
I landed on a metal rich this morning around 1500k with no apparent drama. Had to quit to head to work so not deploued buggy yet.

 

[The_Tenderizer01]

Heat has no effect, I'm afraid.

 

[Ziljan]

There are some hot planets that's are close enough to their extremely large parent star that trying to land there with your engines on, or without several bank of heat sinks will cause you to fry. There is a combination effect of heating and engine use in a g field and corona-like heat conditions that causes serious damage. But only to ships, not SRVs. Their SRV heat will increase or decrease according to the ambient conditions, but not to dangerous levels.

Maybe once we get atmospheres?

 

[disorganise]

Is there a rough guide as to when heat sinks are gonna be required?

To be honest I'd expect the on board computer to give a warning....which you can switch off....much like abs and other safety equipment in cars today.
Maybe an orange ring around it in the system map indicating too hot to land without consideration if heat sinks etc and a red ring for "suicide here"

 

[Ziljan]

It depends on the ship, the star, and the orbital radius of the planet. 9999 out of 10000 you won't need heat sinks. So I wouldn't worry about it. But when you do need heat sinks, count on needing 3-4 to land and another 2-3 to take off. I figured out how to only use 1 per landing/takeoff and take zero damage but it's kind of an involved technique.

I wrote a small book about it in a thread posted by Dognosh about such a hell planet. It's on the 2nd pg of this thread:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=210524&p=3237860&viewfull=1#post3237860

 

[disorganise]

Great.....off to read

 

[thefraj]

Greetings commanders,

I was heading over to Maia in the Pleades Nebula (my favourite area at the moment!) and decided to take a slight detour to see Betelguese - something happened here that I wanted to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRY1RXFbQBc

As you probably know, Betelguese is a supergiant star, particularly huge and hot. Then I spotted a tiny coal-coloured planet Betelguese 1 orbiting very close - with a temperature of around 2400ºK my first instinct was that I simply must have a fly-by selfie with this strange and hard-to-reach coal-marble.

As others have discovered - I actually wasn't able to escape the proximity of Betelguese quickly enough to avoid possible destruction from heat as I attempted to leave (something I hadn't considered going in). The escape would have taken many minutes (you'll notice my FSD gets stuck for a LONG time at 0.33c due to the mass of the star). I decided best course of action was to point ship at star away from Betelguese, deploy heat sink and then FSD the hell out of there. It worked, and despite reaching nearly 140% temp I managed to avoid any damage.

I then came back, and spotted Betelguese 2 which was only a couple of hundred light seconds away, at around 1255ºK I noticed it was a landfall planet - still so close that my fuel scoop was easily charging as I approached - so of course had to land! This is also included in this video - (in case anyone is wondering about the 2 tonnes of tea - I found this on a planet a few hours earlier and forgot to sell it lol) but I can at least confirm the buggy was totally unaffected at this temperature.

So having read the account of Dognosh and Lølwut I am now eager to land on the planets in HD 49368 which I believe can be done entirely safely - we have bought a ship especially for this trip and plan on using some custom colours.

So I am now wondering: just what is the hottest landfall planet we can land on, so figured I would share this anecdote and video.

Thanks commanders, I'll hopefully have some interesting video to share soon!

 

[thefraj]

Haha well commanders, it turns out fate isn't without a strange sense of irony; so all went like clockwork for "Snowball" - as we'd dubbed her - a Hauler kitted out thusly http://bit.ly/1qFc0Je we'd given her a white paint job in honour of her mission to HD 49368 which we'd specced out and optimised her for.

Here is the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRsCHSwjbcw#t=01m10s

Her flight plan went perfectly, set course for inner most planet HD 49368 1 using exactly 4 of her 8 heat sinks to reach the surface without taking any damage from the heat (except a few sparks and 1% somewhere along the line...)

But yes, you guessed ... here comes the irony ... due to the pilot being a wee bit tipsy, and panicking a bit (having had a rather long day), I completely misjudged the landing, came in too fast, gravity conspired and I crashed hard a couple of times into the surface - severely damaging the ships hull! Systems all fine, most at 100% and were it not for this clumsiness you can see how its totally possible to do landings on planets like this without suffering any damage from heat.

We went with a small ship with little power/heat, turned off most her systems, didn't have shields (since they don't protect against heat and generate their own heat!) optimised her power / FSD range and took a long run up to try and minimise exposure, using heat sinks just as temperature exceeds 100%

I believe its possible to do much much hotter landings still by using a backup plan we didn't need to use in this instance: we wondered if deliberately crashing into the orbit of a planet might take out of SC while getting you there quickly, thereby avoiding spending too long in the sunshine - I was surprised to see the heat continue to rise though after I'd exited glide and was touching down, this was partly what distracted me when landing...

Our extraction plan is a lazy one: just aiming ship away from the star and punching heat sink and jumping out of the system.

A fun little adventure and we think Snowball immediately won a place in our hearts - it would be awesome to attempt even more dangerous landings ... but for now ... time to head home!

 

[Jielle]

Arriving in at high speed works, you'll basically be sent to normal sub-orbital flight at 25km (with glide failed) and a little damage to hull, a bit like when being interdicted.
Though i didn't do that on purpose the one time i tested it :/