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    16 hours ago, CobaltWolf said:

    Like a Lunokhod lander.

    That gave me an idea...

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    Screenshots of the whole missions, I took a lot of them this time because I really really liked this rover:

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    Rocket is the same fat Atlas as before but with more boosters, upper stage a weird mix between Centaur and Titan, the lander is similar to the previous one but with monoprop engines and lots of fuel and the rover is a kitbash between lots of probes and the Tantares mini wheels. Except from these everythin else is from BDB!

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    BDB fictional parts to convert the Ranger probe into a wheeled rover when?;)

     

  2. 1 hour ago, wumpus said:

    Presumably the only way to convince NASA would be to cut the price down to what Congress authorized

    Actually no, that wouldn't work. Lunar Starship was the highest rated of the three without including the cost, and was even awarded the contract before starting to rediscuss the dates of the milestones to fit the payment. So even if BO actually halved their cost again they would still have a lower rating than Spacex, and thus to be selected together with them would still need Congress to double the HLS founds (and which would still be half the money NASA had originally requested:()

  3. 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

    For sure. Until it burns

    Given that you said "without landing", what are you suggesting, making a full 15 meters high falcon 9 second stage just crash somewhere without burning, all this from orbital velocity? Doesn't seem safe at all

  4. 1 hour ago, ndiver said:

    While i'm not using (yet) this mod, if some of you have pictures of how you landed and assembled your base elements, I am really interested to see to learn

    Personally, to transport them I used three ways:

    - For the small modules, engines on the sides perpendicular to the module, ensuring the mass is always in the middle;
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    - alternatively, placing the thruster in the back and adding some fuel pods sideways to balance the mass, jettisoned just before landing;
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    - For the 3.75m modules, directly with engines placed on the sides, Jamestown style (the "fuel cupola" in this screenshot is jettisoned before landing as well).Screenshot_54.png

    To assemble them, I ended up with three ways as well:

    - The intended way, as in using the robotic rover and wheels included in this mod and placing the modules above them for transport (didn't work too well in parallax with collisions enabled);

    - A rover with moving arm, which proved useful but at the end of the day was just too light to carry full modules without tipping over;

    - A skycrane with grabbing arm, with lots of fuel that on minmus was more than enough for all the modules I took there after its arrival.

    the last two are shown in this screenshot:
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    Superheavy might not even be in that figure, given that they seem to include a case for a rapid launch of Starships to refuel one of them that'd go and be used as a lander

    The orbital refuelling part is true, that is the current plan, but it still includes Superheavy for the launch. If I remember correctly even a Starship with no payload isn't an SSTO, let alone refuelling another one and making the suicide burn

  6. 9 minutes ago, benjee10 said:

    Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to do this for the moment - stock behaviour has improved in the last couple of updates in that vessels without wheels touching the ground get locked in place after a moment or two though. 

    That's fair and also true, it does happen usually because of me doing stuff I shouldn't.

    Is there a dev thread of this or something similar to follow?

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