Mun Rover Success!

[Odo]

So after succesfully landing on the Mun for the first time 2 days ago, I've gone a bit further and have landed a Mun Rover onto the Mun! This thing is super fun, and Ive spent 2 hours today just burning around on the Mun and jumping over the little hills and getting huge air! So far it hasnt exploded, its extremely durable! The fastest I've gotten with it is 65 m/s, and that was when I just burned down the slope of a massive crater. (the biggest one on the moon I believe) It was so scary, it was wobbling and shaking like mad!

It's of my own design, and I'd like to know how I can improve it, so I'd love if you guys would post your own designs in here, and the landers for them (thats the hardest part to me)

Also I need some help when landing, how do I control where I land? I want to land on my Mun base, but I've somehow managed to land on the opposite side of the mun base, so the pilot of my rover is most likely never going to see another soul again.

Pic of the front of my rover:

[Specialist290]

Nicely done!

Getting good at landings is mostly a matter of practice, really. Usually what I do is get into a low stable orbit first, then plot a maneuver node about 90 degrees in the orbit before my targeted landing site that overshoots it just a little. From there, I adjust on the fly until I'm roughly where I want to be. One of my most recent attempts to land at a given point dropped me about 0.5 km from my target (a flag from a previous landing site) with plenty of fuel to spare.

EDIT: It's a good thing there are no traffic cops on the Mun, because you were going at about the same speed as this guy

Edited June 4, 2013 by Specialist290

[Odo]

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Nicely done!

Getting good at landings is mostly a matter of practice, really. Usually what I do is get into a low stable orbit first, then plot a maneuver node about 90 degrees in the orbit before my targeted landing site that overshoots it just a little. From there, I adjust on the fly until I'm roughly where I want to be. One of my most recent attempts to land at a given point dropped me about 0.5 km from my target (a flag from a previous landing site) with plenty of fuel to spare.

EDIT: It's a good thing there are no traffic cops on the Mun, because you were going at about the same speed as this guy

hahahaha I was going pretty fast xD