How do you mount your rovers on landers?

[Lego8_bit]

this is not a rocket but hey it got jets and it flies and can drop a rover at least where it needs to go (can Fly around Kerbin With rover) this is a prototype ive been working on for a while now and it can fly but steering its a slight issue, and it uses the rover wheels to take of with this can launch before the wheels go pop (if you know how to Fly)

this video also went to my challenge I made for people to go to the north pole in multiple ways if you were wondering why I named the craft the way I did.

Edited March 31, 2015 by Lego8_bit

[magnemoe]

These days, my rover usually IS a lander.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10991102_10152838774119735_4850395666981159547_n.jpg?oh=79a3120f75c24d8f815e39352a671cc4&oe=55A73A83

Same here, multiple designs uses this setup, its perfect for small probe rovers and the huge ones.

In short the only rovers who don't use it is the fast exploration rovers where speed is important so keeping weight down is important.

[Vanamonde]

As a how-to kind of a thread, this discussion has been moved to the how-to subforum.

[eddiew]

Mostly it's about figuring out what you need from your rover...

This one is ~600kg, fits in an MK2 cargo bay, has enough solars to run forever in Munar sunlight, enough torque that it never flips ever (drive in docking mode!) and will happily trundle around at 4x timewarp; effectively 40-80m/s before the tyres burst. And you can take an engineer if you really love those downhill speed runs I've got six of these rovers on Mun now, and yes, a couple of them have had survey contracts within 20km, which is well worth the time of driving over to them for free money!

Note; this is not an SSTO or a spaceplane, just a rocket in MK2 format.

- great little surface delivery system for Mun and similar. For a bigger rover, I'd be looking at an MK3 shuttle of similar purpose

[Landge]

Here is a VTOL lander-rover, undergoing a field trial at KSC. I designed it for island hopping on Laythe on an upcoming mission.

It has taken many long minutes practicing how to fly this thing consistently without crashing.

All is required is a booster stage to get it into a LKO parking orbit then a transfer stage to take it to Laythe.

I have since removed the RCS maneuvering thrusters, reduced the 8 O-10 RCS engines to 4, and removed the 2 redundant side lights from the rover.

[Van Disaster]

I don't really do rovers much anymore, this is probably the most complicated launched one I did:

the lander's legs fold up. Stuffed it all in a proc fairing & sent to Eeloo. I have no idea why I put the rover on top of the satellite... that was launched some time ago now.

Bigger ones I build in place with EPL.

Edited April 12, 2015 by Van Disaster

[Wolf Baginski]

It's good if the counterweight is something useful after landing which you can leave behind.

It can be a bit tricky to manage, but a small fuel tank with a controlled fuel crossfeed is one option as a balance weight

Instead of a proper two-stage lander in the style of Apollo, you use a single stage, land on internal fuel, refill from the drop tank, and drop both that and the rover, maybe with other kit.