cyagrdner

This is awesome, however I would never use it as long as the model looks like that. Possibly make it fit the size of existing parts!

Recently i did something similar, had the entire thing in orbit of Eve. Landed and realized i had no transmitting device. Their still stuck there. Cheers to your success though:sticktongue:

Wrong On planets with atmospheres including Laythe a wing configuration could slow your craft down to acceptable speeds so that your craft could survive. However on planets without atmospheres yes lithobraking is the only way. And BTW i did not exclude mods however stock would be better. They would both have their respective completion sections on this thread.

@Francesco Any pod probe would work, although using the QBE would be advisable Thank all of you for the responces

Essentially, however this is a challenge to make the most reliable drop pod that can be executed from orbit and left. Lithobraking in my experience is in no way easy so making a drop pod that could do this(reliably)would be awesome. So I encourage you to try!!.

Any body really, the challenge is to make a impact resistant drop pod. Any planet or moon would be impressive, but yes the Mun would likely be one of the harder ones because of the high gravity and no atmosphere.

Hard The Challenge is to make a drop pod that you launch from orbit and leave it. The pod would then travel towards the ground at 500+ meters per second and hopefully survive. The idea is that you make a probe covered in impact resistant plating so that it could survive a harsh landing, without any rockets or parachutes etc. Please include screenshots!!

Good luck to you and your kerbals.

Little off topic. But Driving a Rover on the new Mun IS awesome and the hills make your rover into a plane in no time.

A VTOL SSTO is hard enough on its own. Ill try it!.

Get the main ship in an orbit around the moon you want then detach a probe from there it will all ready be in orbit. then do that with the rest of the moons.

I would try to land a lot slower(less than 1 m/s ideally) and make sure you are pointing at the retro grade marker.

I think this is called a Rover>.>

I land a rover by adding RCS tanks to it then slowing my self down with the RCs thruster and land about 2 m/s. But otherwise your lander is very nice and look like it might be able to do a return trip so very nice!