Liltrack suborbital delivery : a succesful experiment

[Emilio]

I just tried to deliver a liltrack (bigtrak's cousin) from a subrobital rocket, and it works pretty well, exept two incidents... here's the story :

On the runway/pad

The launch was perfect, a bit hard to control.

We then have no images until the first incident.

Crewmember Richgel Kerman attempted an EVA after booster cutoff. When trying to go back to the ship, a collision bug occured and POW ! he was sent 1.7 kilometers away from the ship.

When he finally arrived close to the ship...

There was only 4.4 percent of fuel left in his pack...

But he finally managed to get back in the ship with less than 2.7 fuel left.

Next they arrived at the landing point and deployed the chute.

Then, they activated the experimental "Land-A-Thing" landing rockets, small rocket boosters stolen, err, picked up on an ejection seat.

Landed on a mountain, parachute behind us.

The rover rolled down all the way to the end of the mountain.

And finally stopped. Rover was fully operational.

This system will be used as soon as a new planet with atmosphere appears

What do you think of it ?

Mods used :

ChickenPlucker's Bigtrak for the li'ltrack

VVaris's Redstar Co-op pack for the landing rockets (they actually come from the ejector seat)

Our brave Kerbonauts : Richgel and Joncott Kerman

Edited August 29, 2012 by Emilio
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[softweir]

Please spoiler long sequences of images. It makes browsing them much easier!

[6677]

Hehe, nice. I prefer incorporating the lil-trak as a spaceplane cockpit myself, looks bizarre but is more fun, dunno how far my current spaceplane would fly though, it needs constant user input and I can't be bothered to fly it, probably can't cross to the next continent.

[Emilio]

Please spoiler long sequences of images. It makes browsing them much easier!

Sorry... I forgot.

Spoilering...

EDIT : Spoiler tag not working ??!!

EDIT 2 : Finally works.

@6677 Can the spaceplane reach the pole ? Would be cool to simulate a mun base

Edited August 29, 2012 by Emilio

[Werwolf]

I was wondering if you could deliver the bigtrak at suborbital altitudes with successful deployment. Nice one!

[softweir]

Thanks! Much better!

A hint for future posts: you can use the title for the spoiler as the caption for each image.

[XilentDude]

Oh... That collision bug... I never managed to reach Liltrack again. Poor Bob died.

And that's a nice "Operation" you did .