eve contract: ground contact + splash

[antipro]

hi, I spent many hours refining an eve splasher and its launcher, then I made the mission and only at the end, after failed, I read well what the contract said:


in facts it isn't only to splash into the sea but it wants a ground contact too! first time I play this, I swear.
As I'm almost resigned to re-design from scratch both the probe and the mission approach, I just would ask:

Is it something about to land the probe on the ground, very close to an ocean and then release a kind of floating, water-pilotable rover from a Service Bay that can reach the sea?

I'm thinking about how to build it cause this approach will not work as the contract probably wants the main probe core does both the ground and the sea contacts. isn't it?
So I assume the main core has to be the one on the rover and not the one on the lander. in short, as usual. is it correct?

Edited November 14, 2020 by antipro

[AHHans]

Well, you could do this contract with three completely separate craft (Although I don't know why you would want that.) But landing on ground and then rovering to the sea should work. Or you build a plane that can take off after a successful first landing. Or drop a "daughter" probe while descending.

[antipro]

7 hours ago, AHHans said:

Well, you could do this contract with three completely separate craft

oh! I didn't think about it...
you're right, also with two only.
don't know why I though that only 1 probe Pod was necessary.

 

7 hours ago, AHHans said:

drop a "daughter" probe while descending.

this works too, thanks.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l8d2y4uw8z8m9rl/2020-11-14 16-59-24.mkv?dl=0

I'm gonna go rebuild the probe.

edit: I've decided to launch 1 ship with 2 probes inside the fairing.
this way I have no longer to have 3 SC-9001 but 2 only for each probe, reducing their height.

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by antipro