The numerous landers since altair

[Jestersage]

This is technically half real-life, half KSP, because I am trying to figure out how all the different US landers differentiate from each other, and how to integrate that within KSP

So far, there's the following lander:

• Altair draft 1 (2 stage, 4-people, horizontal cylinder with cargo bay)
• Altair draft2 (2 stage, 4-people, vertical cyliner)
• Boeing reusable (1 stage, 3~2 people, spherical crew cab)
• Boeing unknown (? stage, 3 people, horizontal cylinder cab, with cargo capability)
• Lockheed Martin reusable (1 stage, Orion based with lunar landing workstation; Basically a stripped down Lockheed Martin Winged Mars lander)
• Lockheed Martin expandable (2 stage, Orion based with lunar landing workstation; resembles 2-staging above lander)

Not sure if I missed any.

My real question is how are they actually different from each other? The lockheed Martin version just looks like Altair, but replacing the crew cab with a stripped down Orion. While Boeing have as much info as Chinese and Russia manned lunar lander, which is to say, nothing.

And in turn of KSP-ization it's even thougher, since the lockheed Martin does imply the use of Mk1-3 capsule, but it's so much heavier. All in all, I am having trouble differentiate their designs.

Edited April 13, 2019 by Jestersage

[tater]

This would be a cool place to put pictures of them...

8 hours ago, Jestersage said:

Altair draft 1 (2 stage, 4-people, horizontal cylinder with cargo bay)

 

 

 

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Altair draft2 (2 stage, 4-people, vertical cylinder)

 

 

 

 

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Boeing reusable (1 stage, 3~2 people, spherical crew cab)

 

 

 

 

 

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Boeing unknown (? stage, 3 people, horizontal cylinder cab, with cargo capability)

 

 

 

 

 

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Lockheed Martin reusable (1 stage, Orion based with lunar landing workstation; Basically a stripped down Lockheed Martin Winged Mars lander)

This one?

 

 

 

 

 

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Lockheed Martin expandable (2 stage, Orion based with lunar landing workstation; resembles 2-staging above lander)

 

Edited April 13, 2019 by tater

[StrandedonEarth]

1 hour ago, tater said:

 

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Altair draft2 (2 stage, 4-people, vertical cylinder)

 

Those landing leg struts look an awful lot like KSP fuel lines...

[Jestersage]

Lockheed martin expandable is the one recently proposed by LM, which is 2 stage, and thus shorter.

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

14 hours ago, tater said:

While one man is carrying the heavy boxes to the ladder one by one,
another one pretends that he isn't seeing this and is very busy with flag fixing,
and one more is just standing on the roof and watching.

 

Spoiler

14 hours ago, tater said:

This is a fake! Shade directions from the spacemen are wrong!

 

Edited April 14, 2019 by kerbiloid

[DDE]

On 4/14/2019 at 7:43 AM, kerbiloid said:

This is a fake! Shade directions from the spacemen are wrong!

Of course it’s fake.

There’s a flag of Belarus on it.

[kerbiloid]

 

18 minutes ago, DDE said:

There’s a flag of Belarus on it.

They make the rover for regolith mining...

Spoiler

 

... and the greenhouse for Martian potatoes.

[DDE]

30 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

They make the rover for regolith mining...

This, but unironicly.