Building the Rosetta mission: Philae

[Himynameisjake]

Slowly putting this project together for funsies while I wait for 1.0.

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It deploys and lands nice enough from 30km circular orbit dropped to just suborbital (like the real deployment). Be careful though, it has a tendency to bounce, just like the real deal.

If anyone wants it, I'll post a dropbox

Edited March 19, 2015 by Himynameisjake

[kahlzun]

Nice! I was wondering if a free-drop onto Gilly would be doable.

Looks good too!

[Himynameisjake]

Nice! I was wondering if a free-drop onto Gilly would be doable.

Looks good too!

It's doable, you come in hot (somewhere around 23m/s) but those little legs handle the blow. If you're focused, you can almost negate the bounce, but you have to hit at just the right time. If you don't do anything, you'll bounce for ~30 minutes and still slide around when you land.

[Foxster]

Why bother with the solar panels? You'll be permanently parked in shadow anyway .

[Mister Kerman]

Nice Rossetta tribute, your Philae looks great! I like the drill a lot.

[Himynameisjake]

Why bother with the solar panels? You'll be permanently parked in shadow anyway .

too soon </3

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Nice Rossetta tribute, your Philae looks great! I like the drill a lot.

Thanks!

[Himynameisjake]

Continuing the process, Rosetta taking shape:

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[Rune]

Where are the ion engines on Rosetta? Other than that, the whole things looks pretty cool.

Rune. Keep it up!

[Himynameisjake]

Where are the ion engines on Rosetta? Other than that, the whole things looks pretty cool.

Rune. Keep it up!

pretty sure rosetta is bipropellant? also, I put the engines (monoprop because they look the closest to her engines) clipped inside an RCS block to look even more realistic.

[sgt_flyer]

Where are the ion engines on Rosetta? Other than that, the whole things looks pretty cool.

Rune. Keep it up!

Huh ? Rosetta only uses hypergolic fuel + oxydizer - through it's 24 10N pressure fed RCS nozzles.

Stationkeeping and propulsion is provided only by those

[Himynameisjake]

Huh ? Rosetta only uses hypergolic fuel + oxydizer - through it's 24 10N pressure fed RCS nozzles.

Stationkeeping and propulsion is provided only by those

good, i'm not crazy, you heard it here first.

[sgt_flyer]

Here's what those thrusters looks like

http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft-propulsion/bipropellant-thrusters/10n-thruster.html

@Himynameisjake

If you need a more special way to have single RCS nozzles, you can surface attach a place-7 anywhere linear RCS port onto a LV-1R engine (with it's thrust set to 0) , then move the rcs port with the offset tool - and tada a single rcs port with a nozzle

edit : here's an example of what i meant maybe it can be of use to you

Edited March 20, 2015 by sgt_flyer

[Himynameisjake]

Here's what those thrusters looks like

http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft-propulsion/bipropellant-thrusters/10n-thruster.html

@Himynameisjake

If you need a more special way to have single RCS nozzles, you can surface attach a place-7 anywhere linear RCS port onto a LV-1R engine (with it's thrust set to 0) , then move the rcs port with the offset tool - and tada a single rcs port with a nozzle

edit : here's an example of what i meant maybe it can be of use to you

http://i.imgur.com/4JAPuSBm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GTKmYo5m.jpg

Fun idea but I like the ability to fire it as a normal engine

[sgt_flyer]

you should still be able to use the LV-1R if you don't set it's thrust to 0 although, you'll need to either surface attach the LV-1R to a fuel tank, or to use a fuel line between the tank and the LV-1R but both operations at the same time would be possible

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Nice replica!