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“This is Odyssey 2, from Zenith Crater. Touchdown confirmed.”- Germund Kerman

Video of the landing: https://i.imgur.com/TkHIxij.mp4

This was probably one of the most stressful landings I’ve ever done in this game, but watching mission commander Germund Kerman plant the flag was well worth it. This marks the beginning of my Elcano challenge, in which I will attempt to circumnavigate Tylo. I also gave the crew different colored lights on their suits depending on profession: Red= Pilot, Green = Engineer, Purple = Scientist, and Yellow = Mission Commander.

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@Keyboard BasherI like the idea of using stack separators to provide clearance for the wheels, smart design choice! Also, here’s a few screenshots of the launch vehicles since you were asking about them:

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From here on out, I’m probably going to move the log of this mission to a thread in Mission Reports somewhere, so I don’t take up too much space here, as the full circumnavigation will likely take weeks to complete.

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Keyboard Basher

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  On 10/19/2021 at 6:02 AM, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

I also gave the crew different colored lights on their suits depending on profession: Red= Pilot, Green = Engineer, Purple = Scientist, and Yellow = Mission Commander.

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That's a nice touch of realism there.

  On 10/19/2021 at 6:02 AM, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

I like the idea of using stack separators to provide clearance for the wheels, smart design choice!

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@Jack Joseph Kerman Thanks! There will be better implementations later.

  On 10/19/2021 at 6:02 AM, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

From here on out, I’m probably going to move the log of this mission to a thread in Mission Reports somewhere, so I don’t take up too much space here, as the full circumnavigation will likely take weeks to complete.

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Sounds good! I'll follow that thread once you've posted your first update.

Once I unlock more of the tech tree I'll be designing a new compact manned rover. I'll be sure to post pictures here of the design as well as the descent vehicle I use for it.

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  On 10/22/2021 at 6:46 AM, OrdinaryKerman said:

Where's the golden relic from?

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  It's a coral formation terrain scatter I found at @ 650 meters depth under Gael's oceans, so I assume it's from Galileo's Planet Pack, but for this game instance I kinda just went through CKAN's database and installed every mod that looked interesting, so it might be from another of the 223 mods I'm currently running.  It takes my PC an entire 9-12 minutes to load, but it's totally worth the wait even though my GPU doubles as a space heater while I'm playing.  My modlist:

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Admiral Fluffy

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  On 10/21/2021 at 4:07 PM, Keyboard Basher said:

@Admiral Fluffy Do you have any screenshots you can post? I'd love to see it.

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Late screenshot, but screenshot none the less

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Trying to do the Elcano Challenge with it.

Oh here is the mission report

 

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Mission Report!
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  On 10/19/2021 at 6:02 AM, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

Odyssey 2

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This thing is seriously awesome. Massive rovers are the coolest

  On 10/22/2021 at 4:28 AM, Nizrael said:

Are unkerballed submersible ROVs within the scope of this thread?

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Of course! I see rovers as every vehicle that isn't a ship, plane, or rocket, and I'd love to see more submarines here!

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The elcano mission of @Jack Joseph Kerman inspired me to take one of my own. Again, with a huge rover made mostly for show. I decided to do it on OPM Slate.

Slate is tylo-sized, but it has a very varied topography with mountain ranges, valleys, canyons. quite the beautiful planet, but very hard to travel.

And this is my rover, the Tamarromobile (roughly translatable as pimpmobile).

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I gave it 3 different drive cabins, all with good IVA views, to try and keep things varied. the cupola on top is mounted on a rotating servo so it can get 360° views, if i want to better appreciate the landscape. all those crew cabins are angled slightly downward, so that they have a better view of the ground.

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the 45-ton rover has 36 wheels, which give it a decent power to climb slopes. It can climb up to 15° on slate. Power is supplies by 16 advanced RTG, each one worth 4 regular ones.

the extremely large base give it good stability even at high speed. unfortunately, slate is very rough on rovers, the terrain is full of sharp angles that will explode the wheels completely

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fitting and removing the descent stage was... unconventional. but that cupola prevented a normal sky crane, so I had to use two asymmetric ones. and then they could no longer fly straight up.

 

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an inside view when I opened the payload fairing. which, alone, was heavier than the rover.

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view from the cupola

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view from the cockpit

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  On 10/30/2021 at 12:49 PM, king of nowhere said:

The elcano mission of @Jack Joseph Kerman inspired me to take one of my own. Again, with a huge rover made mostly for show. I decided to do it on OPM Slate.

the 45-ton rover has 36 wheels, which give it a decent power to climb slopes. It can climb up to 15° on slate. 

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Glad I could serve as a source of inspiration for a mission! As far as I’m aware you will be the first person to ever do an elcano on a modded planet, at least according to the challenge’s thread. 

It appears you’ve at least gone for some functionality over aesthetics, as my rover is 70 tons with only 28 wheels (well technically 27 now, considering one of them died.) I don’t even think the Odyssey is capable of ascending a 10-degree slope on Tylo, although Tylo has slightly higher gravity than Slate, 0.8g vs 0.7g.

Definitely a unique design there with the wide frame, and I love the idea of using a rotation servo to give your cupola a 360-degree view! The name of the rover gave me a good chuckle as well. :D 

Good luck with your mission!

EDIT: What’s the Tamarromobile’s partcount by the way?

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Viking-M-2 science rover exploring Mün

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Viking-class is currently my main type of uncrewed science rovers for yet another Soviet-themed career. The most noticeable feature of its design is adjustable angle mechanism of two main solar panels, which can be set to any angle between 0 and 60 degrees. This helps not only to provide more sunlight when sun is far from zenith, but also to protect panels from breaking during hard wheel-to-surface collisions. Top speed of this rover class is just above 30 m/s, but recommended cruising speed is 20 m/s. To get rid of excessive maneuverability, which can be dangerous in low-gravity environments, only front pair of wheels are steering. This measure sacrifices a bit of low speed performance and makes any attempt to move backwards very clumsy, to say at least, but travelling within cruising speed margin is mostly safe. Two SAS modules can provide additional steering at low speeds or stabilize rover during jump or freefall. Clearance is enough to travel across most edges but the sharpest ones without scratching the bottom, and chassis is sturdy enough to survive impact with vertical speed less than 25 m/s, though these are not recommended. Full science pack, excluding only materials bay, makes sure that any region exploration with this rover will provide throughout and reliable data. Two joint sockets at the rear may be used for transportation purposes, e.g. by Vikhr' spaceplanes.

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People think that Minmus is made out of mint ice-cream. While it is easy to make such mistake, Minmus isn't made out of mint ice-cream. You can figure out youself what it's actually made of after seeing my rover lol

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Only downside is that it is painfully slow, but the aesthetic is worth it I think. Fully functional too: has a Lab with science experiments onboard

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  On 11/18/2021 at 11:00 PM, OJT said:

 

Only downside is that it is painfully slow, but the aesthetic is worth it I think. Fully functional too: has a Lab with science experiments onboard

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Doesn’t pretty much any rover without self-propulsion drive slow as molasses on Minmus? Low gravity reduces how much power the motors will apply, reducing top speed. 

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  On 11/18/2021 at 11:00 PM, OJT said:

People think that Minmus is made out of mint ice-cream. While it is easy to make such mistake, Minmus isn't made out of mint ice-cream. You can figure out youself what it's actually made of after seeing my rover lol

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Only downside is that it is painfully slow, but the aesthetic is worth it I think. Fully functional too: has a Lab with science experiments onboard

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Pro tip!

When i'm lazy, i just set to 10x gravity.

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Hey everybody, I decided to design a new rover instead of driving the one I'm supposed to be circumnavigating Vall with. Anyway Here it is:b8MHRd5.png

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It's mission profile is basically the same as the last rover I posted: Refuel stuff and do all the science while fitting in an SSTO payload bay. The main advantage to this one is it fits in a half-size bay so my smaller SSTO can carry it. The disadvantage is those little wheels make it worse at actually roving than its bigger sibling and despite appearances I did have to leave out a couple small features like sas torque and the spinny ore scanner. I think this the first time I've used the munar module pod in a craft, that front access is kinda nice on a rover.

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it is painfully slow

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You can override traction control to get your wheels to run at full power in low gravity. The tradeoff is they have virtually no grip, so you lose control and it takes forever to get up to speed, but you could always try a light override on just your front or back wheels.

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