Anyone want me to make satellites for you?

[TheKSPBeginner]

List the parts in your posts.

[Vanamonde]

This exchange of spacecraft (for such it will become) has been moved to Spacecraft Exchange. 

[hempa2]

It would be great if you could make a relay satellite, it should be able to relay signals from kerbin to mun. I would probably place it in Mun orbit

[XLjedi]

I've been tinkering with a "Prospector" probe that basically serves no other purpose than scanning a planet for ore resource deposits.  If you'd like to take a crack at it; wouldn't hurt to see how someone else might approach it.  I don't like driving larger craft into polar orbits so it would maybe need to have these characteristics:

1. Retrievable
2. Able to reposition itself from equatorial to polar orbit (and back again)
3. Carry appropriate scanning and comms gear for the mission 
4. Can be refueled

One thing I'm not entirely clear on is whether or not I would need one of these for each celestial body?  From my limited tinkering with these around Kerbin, the Mun, and Minmus, it seems that I need to keep one in polar orbit all the time if I want to access the associated resource heat map.  I haven't stumbled upon a way to see the ore resource map when I restart a saved game without first going to the probe and rescanning the planet?  

Ideally, I'd like to have a single "Prospector" probe to carry along in an Orbital Command Vessel that I can dispatch to scan each planet as needed; stow the heatmap info, retrieve the probe and move on to the next planet.  I have a suspicion that I might need to leave a Prospector at each planet but would prefer not to.

Edited July 25, 2017 by XLjedi