Signal lights - for landing or making bases look pretty (picture heavy)

[diegzumillo]

I tried to make a landing pad but the thing was too small to be useful, thus I was frustrated. So I made a ship that carries 8 signal lights (tiny rovers) making it easy to deploy and... anyway. It's useful. OK, it's pretty. Here's a sequence of shots of a perfect landing on the center of the circle of lights, too bad it wasn't night...

This is where the lights are starting to become visible.

Approaching...

Landed

This is what it looks at night

This is what each rover/light looks like up close

If anyone wants the launcher with 8 signal lights, let me know and I'll upload it.

Edited May 19, 2013 by diegzumillo

[miltysmilk]

I would enjoy your launcher for these lights

[diegzumillo]

Without mechjeb: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8011761/lanter%20rover%20launcher%20no%20mechjeb.craft

With mechjeb2: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8011761/lanter%20rover%20launcher%20mechjeb.craft

There you go

[Sathurn]

Very cool idea, but wouldn't the other light give you a better lit landing area?

[diegzumillo]

I tried both, this one gives me a bigger radius. The advantage of the other is that it spreads more with lower intensity, but I positioned 8 of these lights in each rover, giving more intensity in all directions.

[diegzumillo]

A quick note on usage. If you use the mechjeb, after you land the main thing start decoupling the lights one by one and positioning them to equal distances to the lander (I used 72m) making the lander the center of the landing area. Then, with mechjeb, take note of the lander's position and use that for your future missions, so they all land there Then get rid of this lander, of course