Mod for Keeping Vehicles Upright?

[Mars-Bound Hokie]

I don't know if anybody has asked this before, but is there a mod I can install to keep landers/rovers upright during landing and/or use? One time, I sent a mobile base to the Mun and it tipped over, rendering it completely useless.

Please help.

[The Aziz]

If they have probe core or pod pointed upwards at launch and SAS module, just turn it on, change it to surface mode and click on retrograde. If you didn't have any horizontal speed, it should do its work.

[Foxster]

VesselMover Continued can be an essential mod for these kind of scenarios. It lets you pick up, rotate and lower a landed craft. 

Yes, it's a bit cheaty but if you've spent hours on a mission only to have your lander bounce over because of poorly designed stock landing struts then you can probably forgive yourself for using this mod rather than re-running the whole mission.  

[Rocket In My Pocket]

To quote an old car commercial:

Wider is better!

Seriously though, design your base to be shorter and wider so it's naturally stable. No one needs a lighthouse on the Mun after all. Lol.

[Superfluous J]

4 minutes ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

No one needs a lighthouse on the Mun after all. Lol.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

5 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

-snip-

"We're whalers on the moon, we carry our harpoons! But there aint' no whales so we tell tall tales, and sing our whaling tune!"

Rofl! Great, now I've got that song stuck in my head. (Love Futurama!)

Edited November 17, 2018 by Rocket In My Pocket

[magnemoe]

26 minutes ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

To quote an old car commercial:

Wider is better!

Seriously though, design your base to be shorter and wider so it's naturally stable. No one needs a lighthouse on the Mun after all. Lol.

Maximum diameter inside an 5 meter base fairing is 15 meter. If you have to build high make the base wide. Note that you can dock outriggers in orbit 
 

[Rocket In My Pocket]

24 minutes ago, magnemoe said:

Maximum diameter inside an 5 meter base fairing is 15 meter. If you have to build high make the base wide. Note that you can dock outriggers in orbit 

Or forget the fairings entirely!

Thrust>Drag.

[Lisias]

On 11/17/2018 at 2:15 AM, Mars-Bound Hokie said:

I don't know if anybody has asked this before, but is there a mod I can install to keep landers/rovers upright during landing and/or use? One time, I sent a mobile base to the Mun and it tipped over, rendering it completely useless.

Please help.

I use TweakScale for that!!!  

 

 

Edited January 29, 2019 by Lisias
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