Mun Elcano Mission

[Warzouz]

I did a Mun Elcano challenge, my first one.

I used a derivative of my rover science probe. I removed all science equipment and add 2 seats. I set the reaction wheel at the back, that wasn’t a good idea, braking was much less efficient. I also add 2 RTG to set the vehicle 4WD instead of 2WD for the science probe.

As for the trip, I landed ate a nearly random equatorial location and went westward. I stopped twice to let the sun follow, thus having a nicer scenery sight. I stopped at the 3 arches, at the Armstrong memorial and at one of the monolith (which wasn’t there…). I also meet with one of my rover probe near a crater assembly I was playing around.

I used MJ auto pilot, only stopping to quick save. I reloaded few times because of misplaced waypoints. The rover has difficulties crossing crater border at 22m/s in x4 physical time warp.


Rocket design, take-off and mun orbiting
  

 

Undock and Mun landing (the skycrane is overfueled by design) and starting point
   

 

To the first Crater
   

 

The the first Arch
 

 

Meeting with science rover probe
   

The long road to the second Arch
   

 

The last arch
   

 

The Armstrong memorial (in harsh terrain...)
   

The Big crater monolith (where it is ?)
 

End of the road
 

   

Well, that was fun!

BTW, here is the doggy science rover probe from which the rover I used is derived.

 

Edited March 26, 2016 by Warzouz

[Atlas2342]

Nice job!

[cubinator]

On 3/26/2016 at 4:24 AM, Warzouz said:

 set the reaction wheel at the back, that wasn’t a good idea, braking was much less efficient.

Oh, so it's bad to put it there? Hmm...That might have been good to know a couple months ago. Oh well, mine is chugging along pretty well, with only two out of four RTGs left and a third of the way around!

[Warzouz]

8 hours ago, cubinator said:

Oh, so it's bad to put it there? Hmm...That might have been good to know a couple months ago. Oh well, mine is chugging along pretty well, with only two out of four RTGs left and a third of the way around!

The Doggy rover, which this Elcano Rover was based on, is only 2WD and has the reaction wheel at the front. I did some extensive tests on Eve (500km), Duna (200km), Mun (100km) or Minmus (few km) with no real problem (after a lot of tweaking). Braking was quite efficient.

To create this rover, I added 2 seats, removed most of the scientific equipment, add 2 more RTG and moved the reaction wheel at the back. It feels that braking was less efficient.I had some issues braking on slopes I didn't had on my rover probes.

[Claw]

Haha, I like the side seats. That's a neat idea!

Also, I'm sort of interested about the SAS module being at the back as well. I could see it being from moving weight around, but the change from torque location I wouldn't think would be an issue. But perhaps it's acting a bit differently because it has to bend around the rear axle.

 

Nice job!