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Kerbal Space Program? Anyone?
bryntheskits:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 30 Aug 2013, 06:48 ---I sent another rover and managed to land on dry land this time. The spacecraft I use to send these rovers actually deploys four of them, but since I can only control one at a time, and a craft that you don't control won't deploy its parachutes, I can only actually land one, and the rest crash into the surface.
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Very interested in this, are you able to post the craft file? I've been playing for ages but need inspiration for different successful rockets and their stages.
cesium133:
Sure, this is the craft file including the launcher, and this is the craft file for just the rover. The lower stages of the launcher are based on a design I found on the KSP forum. The way I deploy the rovers is I get the craft into a collision course with Eve, then I trigger the decouplers to separate the rovers, and then I fire the engine to get the main body of the craft out of the collision course. I land one of the rovers (the others crash into the surface) and then I switch to the main craft and fire its engine to get it into a stable orbit.
edit -- oh, and I should warn you, there's a bug in the staging for that rocket that causes the middle stage to separate at the same time the rovers separate. It's not a killer problem (the rocket has lots of excess delta-V), but if you want to try it out, you'll likely want to change that part of the staging.
KingOfIreland:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 30 Aug 2013, 06:48 ---I sent another rover and managed to land on dry land this time. The spacecraft I use to send these rovers actually deploys four of them, but since I can only control one at a time, and a craft that you don't control won't deploy its parachutes, I can only actually land one, and the rest crash into the surface.
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Easy, once the chute has opened, hit the next vessel key!
cesium133:
I tried that but couldn't get it to work. When I looked at the map screen the other rovers had already disappeared.
bryntheskits:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 30 Aug 2013, 09:58 ---Sure, this is the craft file including the launcher, and this is the craft file for just the rover.
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Thanks, will take a look at them now. I already make a rover loosely based on your design and it is really stable and even upon losing a wheel it's still quite speedy, still haven't gotten it anywhere though because I'm having problems getting the rovers to redock wince they are too heavy for the attraction force of the small docks to pull upwards (I really want them to be able to re-dock with the landing craft, and I would be able to using RCS on Mun but I would rather not have to rely on that).
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