Rovers! Post your pictures here!

[MythicalHeFF]

“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.

@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:

Spoiler

Launcher for descent stage 

SRB separation 

(Unrelated screenshot)

*The rocket kept exploding going N1 mode when I decoupled the first stage because the engine plate shrouds clipped into the second stage’s engines, so I ended up having to remove the shrouds on the engine plates. The third stage had a similar problem but it was less destructive, and only resulted in some orbital debris.

Launcher for Odyssey proper

Transfer 

Rendezvous 

Docked!

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.

Edited January 28, 2023 by Jack Joseph Kerman

[Keyboard Basher]

On 10/19/2021 at 12:02 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.

That's a nice touch of realism there.

On 10/19/2021 at 12:02 AM, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

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

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

On 10/19/2021 at 12:02 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.

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.

[Admiral Fluffy]

I am currently testing a new rover, made to circumnavigate the Mun.

Can hold 5 Kerbals, and has ISRU.  Has quite a bit of lights too. Its power will be provided by RTGs, solar, and fuel cells. 

[Keyboard Basher]

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

[Admiral Fluffy]

39 minutes ago, Keyboard Basher said:

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

Not currently, but i will post some when i get home.

Edited October 21, 2021 by Admiral Fluffy

[Nizrael]

Are unkerballed submersible ROVs within the scope of this thread?

[Stormpilot]

21 minutes ago, Nizrael said:

Are unkerballed submersible ROVs within the scope of this thread?

Maybe someone should start a “Post your marine vessel pictures here!” thread.

Thats an awesome screenshot well done.

[Nizrael]

Gracias!  Here's the Haddock Mark Two, now with MOAR BALLAST!  (The Mark One was too buoyant to sink!)

OCEAN SCIENCE!!!

[OrdinaryKerman]

1 hour ago, Nizrael said:

Where's the golden relic from?

[Nizrael]

2 hours ago, OrdinaryKerman said:

Where's the golden relic from?

  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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Edited October 22, 2021 by Nizrael
Sometimes I English poorly, even though it's my native tongue.

[Kapitalizing Every Word]

5 hours ago, Nizrael said:

It takes my PC an entire 9-12 minutes to load

I have 10 mods and even in stock I take that time to load 
it is worth the wait

[Admiral Fluffy]

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

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

Late screenshot, but screenshot none the less

Trying to do the Elcano Challenge with it.

Oh here is the mission report

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by Admiral Fluffy
Mission Report!

[MythicalHeFF]

My mission report thread is now up: 

I will be updating it regularly as I progress with the drive, I’ve been at it for 5 days so far 

[Kerminator K-100]

On 10/19/2021 at 2:02 AM, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

Odyssey 2

This thing is seriously awesome. Massive rovers are the coolest

On 10/22/2021 at 12:28 AM, Nizrael said:

Are unkerballed submersible ROVs within the scope of this thread?

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!

[Admiral Fluffy]

45 minutes ago, Kerminator K-100 said:

Massive rovers are the coolest

Very true!

Most of the rovers I make are of similar scale to my Elcano rover. 

This one is the exception. https://kerbalx.com/Admiral_Fluffy/Basic-Rover

 

[king of nowhere]

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).

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.

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

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.

 

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

view from the cupola

view from the cockpit

Edited October 30, 2021 by king of nowhere

[MythicalHeFF]

2 hours ago, 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. 

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.  

Good luck with your mission!

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

Edited October 30, 2021 by Jack Joseph Kerman
Wanted to ask about partcount

[king of nowhere]

7 hours ago, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

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

i don't have ksp open for an exact count, but it's in the 100ish range.

it was 340 total with the launcher

[Staticalliam7]

On 5/30/2021 at 5:11 PM, Astrion said:

Taurus, a rover for 10 crew and can be used to haul cargo with the ports.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

My inspiration was from this Pat Rawlings artwork and the Parker Brothers Concepts mock-up.

 

 

I really like the design of this rover. Nice job!

[INPrint]

Viking-M-2 science rover exploring Mün

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.

[OJT]

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

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

[MythicalHeFF]

2 hours ago, 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

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. 

[Admiral Fluffy]

3 hours ago, 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

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

Pro tip!

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

[Zacspace]

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:

Spoiler

Fully deployed I just noticed the light on it's arm is attached wrong. Good thing I haven't uploaded it yet.

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.

6 hours ago, OJT said:

it is painfully slow

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.

[Kenny Kerman]

https://imgur.com/a/qsdLHRJ