1.0 Drop Pod Landing

[asialsky]

With the new aero system in place, we need more interesting challenges. This challenge entails landing a drop pod on a planet WITHOUT an engine or parachute.

The idea is to use aero brakes or large craft to slow down and land without any help.

Rules:

-Stock Parts

-Planet must have an atmosphere

-No parachutes

-No engines

-No planes/gliders (drop POD, not PLANE!)

-Hyperedit allowed for orbit, not landing.

Win Condition:

-Someone survived the landing

Note: Ejecting (EVA) or having parts explode is O.K.

If you succeed, be sure to post a picture of your pod, and tell us where you landed it.

(Viable options are Kerbin, Laythe, Eve, and Duna)

Example:

http://imgur.com/a/CzVeY

Landed at Kerbin at roughly ~19.6m/s

Edited April 27, 2015 by asialsky
Clarification

[Jumpyyoza]

Looks interesting, I'll definitely give this a go once 1.0 is out. Just one question, can we use hyperedit to get our drop pods to Eve or do we have to fly there manually?

[asialsky]

Hyperedit is fine, as long as you begin your descent outside the atmosphere.

[Jumpyyoza]

So, is Duna Hard Mode?

[Gravaar]

So, is Duna Hard Mode?

TYLO is hard mode due to the lack of atmosphere

But this does sound like fun to try

Edited April 27, 2015 by Gravaar

[Jumpyyoza]

(Viable options are Kerbin, Laythe, Eve, Duna, and Moho)

I don't know if you know but Moho doesn't have an atmoshphere, you might wanna check that as 1.0 is arriving tomorrow.

[asialsky]

So, is Duna Hard Mode?

Hard, but probably not impossible.

Might require some clever maneuvers.

May need to make a sig badge for Duna pod landings.

As for Moho, fixed.

I haven't been there since it got added, at which point it behaved like it had an atmo. Duely noted.

Edited April 27, 2015 by asialsky

[juzeris]

TYLO is hard mode due to the lack of atmosphere

Tylo has a medium-sized flat plane (a lot like Minmus flats, just less minty). If you hit it juuust right maybe it'd be possible to start braking with landing gear without breaking? Assuming the surface doesn't change in 1.0.

I've tried that a couple of times, but it has very narrow margins of error at orbital velocities.

[Radam]

Is a helicopter allowed?

[Francesco]

This is nuts. But some pods have a crash tolerance of 50-60 m/s, so aerobrakes + pancaking parts as shock absorbers should work. Most of the time.

[MrJacobean]

and to top it off, Jool for Scott Manley mode

[smjjames]

Is a passive helicopter allowed? As in the airflow creates the rotation, not powered by anything.

[John FX]

If you have to start outside the atmosphere then tylo is easy mode because you could start from 1m up...

[smjjames]

Why are you guys talking about Tylo? Each world has their own difficulty rating things.

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Oh I thought of something, how far would you consider something to be labelled a glider?

Edited April 27, 2015 by smjjames
oops, multipost due to 502 error glitchyness.

[asialsky]

Oh I thought of something, how far would you consider something to be labelled a glider?

If it can gain significant altitude during its descent, it's a glider/plane/not allowed. It should ideally fall fairly straight down. (Excluding initial aerobraking)

Helicopter designs are fine as well.

Edited April 27, 2015 by asialsky

[asialsky]

UPDATE: Eve is, in fact, easy mode.

Landed with only 10 airbrakes at 16.6m/s.

Just be aware that you can't use an external seat on Eve because the ambient temperature INSTANTLY kills your kerbal.

[goduranus]

this challenge is too easy, I can land on any solid body with this setup:

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[kyred]

Does this count?

http://gfycat.com/BrownCleanBedlingtonterrier

[SpacePilotMax]

Okay, let's see.

Not the first try... still good!

[Aetharan]

I'll let the screenshots and captions do most of the talking, but this design consisted of the following: 1x Mk1 Lander Can, 1x Advanced Inline Stabilizer, 4x LT-2 Landing Strut, 2x PB-NUK, 1x Z-1k Rechargable Battery Bank, 8x A.I.R.B.R.A.K.E.S.

Performed in completely-stock KSP 1.0.2.

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[KaiserMagnus]

What is the policy on using hyperedit for deorbitinng the craft and hurling it at the planet at extreme speeds?

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

This seems to easy, there should be a limit on how many airbrakes to use, or a better score for reentering faster or for cost.

Just my $.02

[KaiserMagnus]

My attempt to get the pod down as fast as possible

[Styles2304]

Expect my entry either tonight or tomorrow. I already have it done and have tested it several times. It's fun

[IonIan11]

Is this allowed? http://imgur.com/a/YMnzu I recently discovered Kerbals can survive reentry into Kerbin in 1.0.2 without a capsule after purposely trying to turn Jebediah into a fireball (insert guilty face here). It only takes a bit of EVA pack thrust near the end of the fall (and maybe some luck to land on hilly terrain, although Bob survived the fall onto flat ground when I had to do the same with him after forgetting some parachutes), to successfully land them. They do get a bit warm, but surprisingly do not burn up. Jeb seems to love it, that darn badass!