Impact Probes

[Clockwork13]

Impact probes would simply be small metal probe cores with the unique advantage that they could survive in immensely high pressures and very hard impacts. They would include a range of basic scientific instruments (i.e thermometer, gravioli, seismometer, barometer) plus a built-in antenna and perhaps some unique ones to make them more worthwhile, and be unlocked towards the very end of the tree. They could be used for landing on a planet without the need for a soft landing, at the expense that their functionality would be limited to a select few scientific instruments, and you wouldn't be able to (nor would you want to) attach anything else to it except the rocket itself.

Edited January 28, 2018 by Clockwork13

[Spricigo]

10 minutes ago, Clockwork13 said:

and you wouldn't be able to (nor would you want to) attach anything else to it.

so...how exactly I deliver it to places?

[Clockwork13]

2 minutes ago, Spricigo said:

so...how exactly I deliver it to places?

By that I meant no radial attachments, you'd still be able to put it onto a rocket

[Spricigo]

 

Then you may just have the stuff you cannot attach to it in a octagonal strut behind it. So not really a meaningful limitation.

 

In any case how much is "immensely high pressures and very hard impacts"? The scientific instruments will be actual parts or built-in experiments?

It seems to be a viable idea for a mod, but need some balancing.(IMHO)

[Geonovast]

 

[MinimalMinmus]

While the idea of impactor probes is good, the whole plot of an impactor is to... impact things, and not quite surviving. I'd prefer a "stockification" of Impact! rather than a new, rather situational probe core. By what miracle any probe could survive an impact to Tylo, anyway (we're talking about slamming into a rock at mach 4 or 5 at the very least)