Capsule Recovery Vehicles

[ExtremeSquared]

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Edited January 31, 2019 by ExtremeSquared

[HvP]

Having ships waiting in recovery zones is something I've been considering recently, but have never done before. My initial thought was to make a pontoon ship with a cargo bay ramp in the middle with a claw in it to scoop up the capsule. Your clawed sea plane though is so very Kerbal. Much faster than having to plod along at tens of meters a second on the water's surface.

[ExtremeSquared]

With the work that went into buoyancy, I wish there were more reasons to build boats. Capsule recovery is one. Also, if you use the hardest comm settings, a floating ocean-based relay station just over the horizon from KSC makes some sense if your probe core comms can't reach geostationary orbit satellites. That's by far the most dangerous dead zone.

[aagun123]

Ways of recover splashed pod:

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Edited January 31, 2019 by aagun123

[PunkyFickle]

Hmmm, I would find hilarious to see someone attempt to setup a Fulton style system to lose as few time as possible.

[Vanamonde]

This exchange of craft has been moved to the craft exchange subforum.