1.0 Drop Pod Landing

[Styles2304]

Ok, going to be a little longer than I anticipated. I kind of got caught up in it and decided to make a short film. The drop pod will be showcased in the film.

[Javamac]

That was BRILLIANT! Are you able to repeat that with ÃŽâ€V stats in my challenge? Looks like it qualifies.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/120934-1-0-High-Velocity-Drop-Pod-Challenge

[Styles2304]

Gahhh . . . all that has been delaying me is the ability to film a kerbals face! I'm about to just make a strictly demo video so I can do my entry.

[Squiggsy]

This was fun, did it in what I call the Mary Poppins Drop Pod (you said no parachutes, didn't say anything about umbrellas)

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Had to be hyper edited up (could probably get it up there with procedural fairings and kerbal join reinforcement but other than that not a chance), and it took FOR EVER to come back down, i mean it was going at less than 40m/s at 10Km up, final speed before impact was 17.4m/s, should have put something to protect the reaction wheels but ahh well

cheers for making this challenge!

[Two]

This is actually very easy and I did it by accident a few times already. The trick is to just have a very flat income vector, so most of the velocity will be forward velocity. Then choose a flat area to land and watch the pod roll till it comes to rest.

This is very easy to do with the M1 inline cockpit, because it is round and it can take some beating. Otherwise you can wrap the pod into an AE-FF1 shell to make it round.

[urbanhawk]

This is my drop pod. Also to note, never do this one in real life.

[JacobT11]

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Impact velocity was around 58 m/s. Deorbiting from an 80km orbit.

[randomness5555]

Ahh good, i'd just made one after seeing that other post (before realising it was outdated) so here's my entry:

Takeoff, flies fine and has enough fuel to happily reach stable LKO at about 100 KM (and then some though I've never bothered to see just how far it could go)

Circularising, ordinary stuff blah blah blah...

The pod (with de-orbiting engines), holds one kerbal in relative safety

Dropping out of orbit, I went for a steep decent at 1400 m/s (though I find it highly likely it could do it much faster if launched from a higher orbit)

Now you may be thinking-Randomness you madman, why have you got a nosecone where you should have a heat shield? Well the more observant of you (so most of you really) will notice what's directly behind the cone...

Yep, there it is! Once the nose overheats and explodes away, the heatshields relative bluntness instantly slows the pod down and burns off just enough to stop the whole thing blowing up.

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Once near ground, deploy airbrakes (Only four, didn't want to go too silly on them)

I didn't get a pic of the exact moment when it touched down-but know that what it will do is to destroy the heatsheild and front tank, bouncing a few metres back into the air before falling back down (stabalised by the fins) onto the surface safely (protected by the heavy girders).

Approved by this guy (don't think it was jeb, honestly can't remember his name). Best not to bring anything fragile with you in the pod though.