Share craft for Retrieving units from orbit

[Lohan2008]

Please share your craft design/s for "retrieve unit from orbit" mission.

I built one with 2.5 service bay on top but it would not "scoop" object, only could get within 8 meters ;(

[selfish_meme]

Note this is gonna get moved to the spacecraft exchange thread

[Phil deCube]

Not a whole craft, but the tube with the Claw and the parachutes attached is retrieving the shuttle type capsule from LKO in this picture: Just build a rocket to get the tube into space. http://i.imgur.com/ywJ3sPW.jpg

[Sharpy]

A word of advice: drop the vernors, use monoprop and standard RCS blocks. Too much RCS power in too little mass and SAS goes totally crazy burning through fuel like there was no tomorrow.

[Phil deCube]

This is the complete rocket I use to recover stuff from LKO.

[Reactordrone]

I've brought back a 3.5 tonne object from LKO with this one.

ETA- it costs 16,460 funds.

Edited August 13, 2015 by Reactordrone

[micr0wave]

only have this one screenie from it, but it worked pretty well

it's made of that flat engine from NFT, a tank, decoupler, that honeybadger reaction wheel/rcs combo thing from RD's FTT, and a mk3 cargo bay, with a claw inside it (the 2 mod parts can easily replaced by stock modules), lots of chutes and a heatshield at the front.

Catch the part (somewhere floating in the background in the pic), deorbit, decouple the engine block and use the chutes to land.