Post your Rover MEGATHREAD

[Tokay Gris]

So this is my surface workhorse.

Different configurations and rather a pain to actually land, but after it is down on all six wheels, it is pretty versatile.

Also, I am rather fond of my solution to the "vertical to horizontal" problem.

So, this is what it looks like when it just hit the ground. Rather delicate in that position. Only three legs...

Then throttle up, and just when the legs want to leave the ground, decouple. The skycrane then goes and hopefully crashes somewhere with no neighbors.

Then retract the single landing leg on the belly and it flips to the side. Retract the four horizontal legs.

Extend the solar panels and wait for the sun to come out of the eclipse...

Currently, I am working on some versions of this "Bully" to assemble my moonbase (I am lousy at moving across ground with the rocket engines).

(I did use MechJeb for that one, but landed a few before this one without the autopilot.)

[Tw1]

Nice!

My solution for the Vertical to Horizontal problem was a little different.

Note that this is a pre-0.19 cart mod vehicle.

I come down vertically:

Drop the orange tank, then rotate to horizontal and fire the small thrusters:

Then, the empty top tanks can be fired of, lowering the centre of gravity for a more stable driving vehicle.:

The bottom tanks will be fired of during accent, returning the centre of gravity to the centre of the vehicle, to make it stable for the rendezvous with the return module.

The same lander was used on Moho, but struggled to land with the side thrusters in all my "simulations". So I did a more traditional, simple landing with the poodle on the back. Then I rotated to horizontal just before hitting the ground. I only lost one RTG on a rover-probe in the impact.

[Camelotking524]

My Apollo program like rover.

[Landge]

Wow! Some really awesome designs here. Great inspiration.

My latest Go-Cart design attaches nose down, wheels out, on the mini docking ports seen here on my Personnel Transport.

It's best to save before releasing the go-carts in case they don't tip over onto their wheels.

Lowering and raising landing legs can help to nudge them over. You can also just try ramming into them with a Kerbalnaut.

Popping wheelies is easy on Minimus.

Edited April 28, 2013 by Landge

[wolfedg]

My Apollo program like rover.

Hey, just wondering where to get those nice (ejection?) seats

[Darren9]

Hey, just wondering where to get those nice (ejection?) seats

The seats are the command pod from Bobcats DEMV Mk3 EX

[cesium133]

This is a rover design I've been using for building a base on Minmus. It's a bit clumsy to drive, since there's so little traction on Minmus' surface because of the low gravity, and since the design is top-heavy.

The rovers are designed to be dockable to build the base, named Jebediah Kerman Memorial Station, after my first Kerbal to die on Minmus. Its current population is 5 (it was 6, until Neilbree Kerman died in an unfortunate accident while jetpacking off a mountain).

[MalaniusCZ]

I think this counts as a rover...

Its purpose is to launch things from mun or other smaller body into space. A gentle push, to help achieve orbit. It can also be used to clear areas from debris.

Heh, man, you've build a cannon

[electronicfox]

My new heavy ground transporter using the B9 pack with the caterpillar tracks mod currently in development, with 3 chambers for various vehicles.

Doubles as a solar recharging station and home base.

[erendrake]

My Grand Tour Mission has a pretty large rover for getting landing, roving and returning to orbit. Check it out and let me know what you think!

[Camelotking524]

[ThatBum]

So I made this thing:

I call it the DERP: Duna Exploration Rover Program. It's built to go fast and be durable. It can right itself if it flips over:

[SteevyT]

Not my most brilliant idea ever.

[cesium133]

So I made this thing:

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I call it the DERP: Duna Exploration Rover Program. It's built to go fast and be durable. It can right itself if it flips over:

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Where did you get the little license plate for it?

[ThatBum]

Where did you get the little license plate for it?

SNAC Pack. Its purpose is to give you a forward facing command point for rovers, so the navball behaves like a proper compass heading.

[Akalaël]

Introducing my MMRC (Mobile Mining and Refueling Complex).

Basically it's made of 3 modules built on the same plan.

107 tons once assembled.

The Tank (launched empty) with Jerfel on controls, just after landing, the skycrane is still attached.

The Mining Truck, piloted by Dilsey, with 12 drills, a small tank of Kethane and the heavy converter.

The Generator, Mungan in the command pod, with 16 nuclear generators (actually, they are just stock part resized by me, weigh 8 times (0.64 tons) than the stock one, but are 8 times more efficient (6 units of electricity per second)).

The minig staff, obviously happy to be here in one piece

Thanks for all the Kerbals that have died for such an experience (mainly during the skycranes's tests on Kerbal, this was horrible), your disappearance will not be forget, and, thanks to you, a huge step have been made in the colonisation of the Mün !

Edited April 30, 2013 by Akalaël

[Deadpangod3]

That puts my mining rover to shame... ^^

[Spartwo]

So I made this thing:

I call it the DERP: Duna Exploration Rover Program. It's built to go fast and be durable. It can right itself if it flips over

nice this is my D.E.R.P duna exploratory rover probe. It flipped forward as soon as it landed(worked fine on kerbin)

stratosmk2 series rover (mk2 in honour of d.e.r.p)

Edited May 4, 2013 by Spartwo

[MalaniusCZ]

Ok it's about time I post my rover fleet, here it is:

From the left:

MaRo MK3, version for non-atmospheric bodies, used for quickly travelling from point to point,

HeMuRo - heavy multi-purpose rover, packed with wide range of scientific equipment, 2 cams for sending back 3D images and experimental tractor beam,

Rovee - minimalistic rover for exploring possible landing sites, scientific instruments are located on lander, as this rover is used for first-time landings to get some info about landed body,

MaRo MK3, version for atmospheric bodies, also used for quick travelling, it's a beast, it can make 60 m/s real quick.

Currently all of them were successfully tested on Kerbin and are waiting for their first missions, starting with Rovee's (and mine too) first munar landing.

Also, the MaRo series are based on "KSC2 Reacher" which I was using in "Drive to KSC2" challenge (was lost during the forumgedon) and contains few really good improvements like the docking port suspension and the aerodynamic down-force on the atmospheric version.

[Deadpangod3]

Those rovers are awesome! ^^

[ThatBum]

My clone of the Mars Pathfinder mission, TrailSpotter. Doing some testing on the Mun because I can't be arsed to send it to Duna currently.

I think I got the Sojourner rover down pretty well, but the Pathfinder lander itself is pretty far off. I'd need to faff about with Damned Robotics to get that to work like the real life unfolding one. This one just has the front decouple and fly off with sepratrons. It did bounce a fair distance using the airbags. It hit the ground at about 30m/s, using the cruise stage to decelerate in lieu of an atmosphere to use the parachutes on.

[Specialist290]

One of my latest Mun rovers pays its respects to a less fortunate older brother that ultimately made its success possible.

[Warscribe]

Special EVE delivery!

[Astrobug]

Finally orchestrated my first Mun landing today deploying the Leeroy Alpha pathfinding rover.

http://i.imgur.com/uBUfnQp.png

Check out that leftover fuel. Perhaps not the most graceful landing ever.

http://i.imgur.com/BF3ba2Q.png

LEEEEROY

[RoboRay]

Delivering the Hermes rover to the Mun via skycrane: