Lander Tip Assist

[JeramyM]

Haha haha.  I may have unintentionally invented tip assist, ala south park mobility scooters, for my landers.

Jeb was on his first Lunar Landing, I flubbed the landing and it tipped over.  Normal procedure is either a rescue mission or a revert.  I decided to see if I could fix it myself.

I have DMagic orbital sciences and universal storage with the lovely inline compartments for them.  I decided to see if the magnetometer would interact with them ground, yay it does.  So I rolled them Lander so that was facing down and toggled it, which pushed them Lander closer to upright, with that and liberal use of RCS I was almost able to get it standing back up.  Between poor leg placement and me getting greedy them main engine it failed explosively.  But I think proof of concept may be there.

Gonna do a redesign and will try to post some pictures after work.

Edited December 3, 2015 by JeramyM

[Warzouz]

Magnetometer is a mod, isn't it ?

I've noticed that suspensions mays increase risk of tiping a lander. When I land on a high slope, I always lock suspension of the lower leg. I've noticed that the lander doesn't bounce as much so the gravity center doesn't get past the lower leg.

This is my heavy miner landed on a 27° slope on Bop.

The other secret is touch down very slowly...

 

[Ignath]

21 hours ago, JeramyM said:

Haha haha.  I may have unintentionally invented tip assist, ala south park mobility scooters, for my landers.

Jeb was on his first Lunar Landing, I flubbed the landing and it tipped over.  Normal procedure is either a rescue mission or a revert.  I decided to see if I could fix it myself.

I have DMagic orbital sciences and universal storage with the lovely inline compartments for them.  I decided to see if the magnetometer would interact with them ground, yay it does.  So I rolled them Lander so that was facing down and toggled it, which pushed them Lander closer to upright, with that and liberal use of RCS I was almost able to get it standing back up.  Between poor leg placement and me getting greedy them main engine it failed explosively.  But I think proof of concept may be there.

Gonna do a redesign and will try to post some pictures after work.

I have saved many a Mun mission this way.  DMagic's Magnetometer can be a life-saver in these situations.

30 minutes ago, Warzouz said:

Magnetometer is a mod, isn't it ?

Yep, Magnetometer is from DMagic Orbital Science mod.

Edited December 4, 2015 by Ignath
adding link to DMagic Orbital Science mod