Mun ground circumnavigation fail - Tips ?

[Snark]

Avoiding rover tumble = lots of reaction wheels. Keep SAS on. Unless you're making a slow, tight turn, you can do all your steering with the reaction wheels.

I've found that the biggest danger is taking a nosedive when braking hard, even when well supplied with reaction torque. To guard against that, I get in the habit of counter-torquing: hit the "pitch up" control at the same time as hitting the brakes. I find that it also helps to design the rover so that its center of mass is closer to the rear than the front.

[Cairol]

My current design works ok until now. I take it more cautiously now and only accelerate to > 10 m/s on really flat terrain.

My calculations say, that I will need about 25-35 real hours to get around Mun. So I have still a lot of time to worry.

The thing with this challange is: The gray surface of the Mun is boring as hell. But I need to concentrate 100% to not go flying and destroying my rover.

So I usually drive no more than 1 real hour per day.

I don't want to quicksave every 100 meters. So I got used to a slower, safer pace.

I'll set the thread to "Answered" as I now have some good tips from you to improve my rover further, should I fail again.