Probe "Mint-1" lands on Minmus.

[VincentMcConnell]

After a successful mission much like the Viking landings, my probe 'Mint-1' has landed on Minmus.

The flight outline is basic.

The probe gets launched on a Scorpio Rocket into Orbit. The Second Stage makes the Trans Minmus Injection. After that, the second stage separates and the orbital stage and landing probe fly to Minmus. The orbital stage burns the configuration into a 14KM parking orbit, then the probe separates and uses four lateral RCS thrusters to make a 'deorbit' burn. The craft deorbits into a methane lake and the autopilot controls take over to perform the landing. At 40 meters, the deorbit thrusts separate and crash into the surface with a tremendous explosion. The probe lands off to the side of the newly formed crater and takes surface samples from as much as several feet down thanks to said explosion.

Here\'s some pictures of the landing.

Kerbin is right up there over those mountains to the left!

[Khrissetti]

Lovely smooth landing. Where did you get those components?

[VincentMcConnell]

Lovely smooth landing. Where did you get those components?

The probe kit comes from Nova\'s Probe add-on. I don\'t remember the exact name.

[Pluto100]

Awesome! Good job!

[VincentMcConnell]

I just went and landed an Apollo Lunar Module RIGHT NEXT to it. So Apollo 12.

The problem happened just after touchdown, though. There is a bug in this game when you land close enough to an already landed ship, you blow up. And unfortunately, I only have pictures of how close I am as I was descending. Then the next photo in my screenshots folder is an explosion... Right next to the probe... They REALLY need to fix that. Because it seriously just completely detracts from this game. As soon as it happened, I literally just closed KSP and went right back to Orbiter. That\'s way too annoying of a bug to deal with...

[shhhilent1]

Awesome! Good job!

Nice rocket Vincent!

OFF-TOPIC: pluto check ur inbox.

[Aegrim]

The probe kit comes from Nova\'s Probe add-on. I don\'t remember the exact name.

Probodyne

[Markus Reese]

I just went and landed an Apollo Lunar Module RIGHT NEXT to it. So Apollo 12.

The problem happened just after touchdown, though. There is a bug in this game when you land close enough to an already landed ship, you blow up. And unfortunately, I only have pictures of how close I am as I was descending. Then the next photo in my screenshots folder is an explosion... Right next to the probe... They REALLY need to fix that. Because it seriously just completely detracts from this game. As soon as it happened, I literally just closed KSP and went right back to Orbiter. That\'s way too annoying of a bug to deal with...

Is it the game or a mod being used that is causing a bug? I have landed very close to other structures and not blown up, but perhaps not quite as close since my multi landing areas tend to be fairly large.

[VincentMcConnell]

Is it the game or a mod being used that is causing a bug? I have landed very close to other structures and not blown up, but perhaps not quite as close since my multi landing areas tend to be fairly large.

No, it\'s not a mod. For some reason, every single time I try to land near another ship, either my own ship or the other one flies up into the air and comes back down or simply spontaneously explodes.