Impact Confirmed Challenge

[Casualnaut]

CHALLENGE: Design a craft that survive a surface impact, on any body, even an asteroid.

RULES: 

• No parachutes except for 1 drogue.
• No engines to slow down your craft.
• You can use as many parts as you like.
• Parts can be sacrificed during impact, just make sure the payload survives.
• It can't be a glider. The only exception is if you glide through reentry, then you must ditch the wings.
• Must land while moving 30m/s or faster.
• No Science Containers... You know why.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Look Mommy, No Parachutes! - Design a craft without the drogue parachute.

Only Took 100 Tries - Land a craft without any pieces breaking.

Before I Die, I Need Makeup - Design a craft that looks and IMPACTS good.

 

 

 

Edited July 3, 2017 by Casualnaut

[Human Person]

A science container can land on a single radial drogue chute. I use this sometimes.

[linuxgurugamer]

What sort of surface impact?  

How fast must the vessel be going?

What planet?

this is too nebulous

[Reusables]

Hmm...

Fairings?

[Thor Wotansen]

wheels and hills

[MarvinKitFox]

Its old, but may I humbly submit my:

It has a fall from Eeloo, no 'chutes, no wings, no functional engines. Minimal  minor survivable damage on "landing"

[sevenperforce]

13 hours ago, linuxgurugamer said:

What sort of surface impact?  

How fast must the vessel be going?

What planet?

this is too nebulous

Ditto on this. You should specify "on Kerbin, from LKO, engines cannot be used in the atmosphere".

[*MajorTom*]

ok, no problem at all

 

[Marschig]

No parachutes, no broken pieces:

 

[Casualnaut]

1 hour ago, Marschig said:

No parachutes, no broken pieces:

 

I have a question, did you use the service bay doors as wings?

On 7/2/2017 at 5:49 PM, linuxgurugamer said:

What sort of surface impact?  

How fast must the vessel be going?

What planet?

this is too nebulous

Lithobraking, at least 30/ms, any body.

1 hour ago, *MajorTom* said:

ok, no problem at all

 

All though you didn't ditch the polymer structures, I still like it!

On 7/2/2017 at 5:02 PM, Physics Student said:

A science container can land on a single radial drogue chute. I use this sometimes.

Well, that is true. I will add "No Science Containers" to the rules.

[Marschig]

6 hours ago, Casualnaut said:

I have a question, did you use the service bay doors as wings?

It was a ballistic descent, SAS was set to Retrograde. 

[*MajorTom*]

found what game cant calculate impact properly. maybe it is not have time to calculate part by part division and decoupling. so at hi speed it looks like the whole ship at last second calculated as 1 part.

[oAsAo]

http://imgur.com/a/rmZhD

now with eighteen four victims.

 

[Casualnaut]

59 minutes ago, oAsAo said:

http://imgur.com/a/rmZhD

now with eighteen four victims.

 

As much as the craft worked, you used the structural panels as drag...