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So, to my shame, I've lost a couple landers and rovers on Minmus. (Minmus? It's really easy to land on Minmus!) It's my own fault, really - they come down @<12m/s, bounce, and SAS (set retrograde) flips them over. Then they're tall (Rockomax-64s), and have a high center of gravity, so the noses smack into the ground, or they roll down a mountainside, and SAS/manuevering can't keep up. Now, obviously it's better to land in the flat plains, and I can (and have now) designed landers to be wider and lower. (Radial X200-32s instead.) I'm also turning of SAS along with the engines when I'm within a couple seconds of touchdown, so there's no unexpected rotation. What i"m curious about is how to avoid the bouncing in the first place. Is there a maximum speed that is "no-bounce" for different planets? I would assume it varies with gravity, but does it vary with the ship or the number of legs? Or is there another recommended method? TIA On a semi-related note, is there a way to tell what the strength of connections and components will be? (It seems like some fuel tanks are more likely to fall off on impact, etc.) I'm sure there's some mod that makes it obvious, but I'm vanilla at this point.