Prometheus (Duna Return)

[amore555]

Hi guys, wanted to share my Duna lander and return craft

The first stage which actually gets the craft into, and out of kerbin orbit is a pretty standard design, but this is the part that counts.

The main fuel tank feeds the atomic engine, which is used for the majority of the trip.

The three tanks you can see around it are for the final stage of descent, they have the small lander engines attached. On top of those are parachutes to assist in landing. (Although I have tested this on the Mun and it lands just as well with no atmosphere).

The landing engines have enough fuel and thrust to get you back into a Duna orbit, from there the top section has an ion engine and battery, with radial solar panels to get you back home safe and sound (albeit slowly)

Mods -

-Nova Punch,

-Deep Space Mission Pack & Kreuzungs electricity,

-cart mod (for the radial RCS tanks),

-VB Parts,

-the protractor Rendez. plugin.

What do you guys think?

Edited October 18, 2012 by amore555
on Sal-VAgers advice, added pics on Imgur

[sal_vager]

Nice

The pic's a little small though, if you upload the full size image to Imgur you can post the link here, and we can see it embigenated

[amore555]

Cheers Sal, added them in, can't get the spoiler code to work tho X(

[sal_vager]

Hmmm lets see if I can fix that, I won't Spoiler the first image though so people can get a taster...

Edit: Cool, fixed it, they don't always work for some reason but in this case it was missing the button name, it has to have

Edited October 17, 2012 by sal_vager

[amore555]

Thanks Sal you're a legend

[gunlugga]

any chance of a craft file:D

[amore555]

Added one to the first post, let me know if there's any issues from the Mods and I'll make sure I haven't left one off my list. I'd love some pics of any missions you do with it!

[amore555]

Just a tip as well, with the launch from Kerbin stage, there are two stages of SRB's, you dont need any thrust on the liquid engine till they are done

[gunlugga]

Sorry but you forgot to mention the VB parts mod as well:D

[amore555]

D'oh! Sorry Gunlugga, added that to the original post, did you get it working?

[gunlugga]

yeah got it to Duna on the first attempt, really good craft i must say:cool:

[amore555]

Thankyou forgot to mention, there are some seperators on the final stage, I experimented with using them as propulsion... not very successful haha, might want to remove them!

Also do you think I could get this thing to Moho and back?