Mun Candidates.

[Sixnew2]

The Delta II

This rocket is more then capable of landing on the moon. Plenty of fuel remaining for lunar injection and low altitude retro burn saving on lander fuel.

2 Stage Lander (Decent & Ascent)

Still working on the return trip still need some practice pics soon.

[SteevyT]

My upgraded stock Munar lander. I still haven\'t been able to aim well enough to make it back though.

If you point about 5-15 degrees left of the Mun an orbit around Kerbin before your TMI, it gets your rocket pretty close to where you need to be pointed for your burn.

Attempting to make it back, I ended up getting slingshotted around the sun just after I finally got my periapsis in the atmosphere.

Wobbles like mad on the ascent, ASAS keeps it mostly on course though. If it wobbles too far, the 9 gimbaled engines should allow you to bring it back on course fairly easily though.

[Mephisto]

Ladies and gentlemen, here I present to you the Shinkiro Mk 4 the rocket that landed on the Mun... Kerbal style.

Some Screenshots of the flight :

Shinkiro Mark 4 on the Launchpad

Liftoff! It takes a lot of WSAD work in this stage...

Separation of SRBs

Entering orbit

Separation of first engine section

Orbit around Kerbin

Extending orbit to the Mun

And circulizing

A quick look at Kerbin

Getting closer...

Gotcha!

Entering orbit around the Mun

Mighty piece of rock...?

Descending a bit

And stabilizing...

Getting ready...

Jettisionning the cover

And separating empty fuel tank

Descending...

Jebediah : So guys, where\'s the brake?

Bob & Bill : *pokerface*

Jebediah : Kouston, we have a problem...

So close...

...and yet so far.

That lander still need more power... I hope that I`ll be able to land safe before Mk 10...

Mods used : A lot of them.

Yay! Mark 5\'s Command Pod survived landing but the rest of lander didnt...

Mark 6 reached Mun but it was moving too fast (horizontal), fell on it side and exploded

YES! Mark 7 reached Mun, landed, and returned home in one piece!

Incomming!

Jettision of the cover

Descending...

TOUCHDOWN! 8)

And now, returning home!

Uh, wrong way...

Fixed!

Home!

Home sweet salt home

[Thunderbird]

[nitpick] nah,you just went in way too steep to have time for braking =P [/nitpick]

[Feragorn]

Anyone tried a Kerpollo 13 slingshot trajectory?

[Plymouth]

After millions of tries, i realised that slingshooting 'Big Poppa' is only good for deep space expiditions. \'Cause it as agile as a brick, and packs huge power, i had to make more agile and less powerfull, more balanced rocket. So here it is, Project 'Tough Uncle':

It took 48 days(i\'m pretty lame at mun catching) of orbiting around kerbin before i had enough luck, and on the day 49 i managed to touch the mun\'s gravitation, and return back to kerbin orbit. BUT! on day 50 i had even more luck, and got caught up into circular mun orbit pretty well. Oh, and the payload wasn\'t meant to land on the moon, it was just designed for orbiting. I\'ll make landing version of a payload when i\'ll figure out how to get to the moon with less fuel consumption.

[OtherDalfite]

After millions of tries, i realised that slingshooting 'Big Poppa' is only good for deep space expiditions. \'Cause it as agile as a brick, and packs huge power, i had to make more agile and less powerfull, more balanced rocket. So here it is, Project 'Tough Uncle':

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It took 48 days(i\'m pretty lame at mun catching) of orbiting around kerbin before i had enough luck, and on the day 49 i managed to touch the mun\'s gravitation, and return back to kerbin orbit. BUT! on day 50 i had even more luck, and got caught up into circular mun orbit pretty well. Oh, and the payload wasn\'t meant to land on the moon, it was just designed for orbiting. I\'ll make landing version of a payload when i\'ll figure out how to get to the moon with less fuel consumption.

That\'s a nice satellite you got there. Nova\'s pack I believe?

[Plymouth]

yep, that\'s nova\'s pack. Very useful for building small and nice payloads.

[RedRockets]

Moon rocket - Launch, Orbit, Trans-Mun burn, Mun Landing, and deployment of Mun Scientific Package (IT LANDED ON ITS FEET FIRST TRY).

Pics and Craft file below!

[RedRockets]

More pics, and ship file.

The experiment package has legs which let me deploy it off the top of my lander.

Oh and I am cheating by using solar collectors to recharge my tanks and the Shotball LRB I have been debating whether or not to show this off cause of all the negative response i am fearing receiving.

RRs

[Ivan Ivanovich]

May I present, the Mun Shot. It\'s a rocket made mostly of stock part with a few nonstandard bits to make the whole deal possible.

Nonstandard parts used (if not noted else, it\'s from NovaSilisko\'s pack). While the list looks long, most of them are used once.

Nano SAS Mk1

TD-M3 Mechanical Decoupler

Mk3 Parachute

TD-M9 Mechanical Decoupler

Mk. 3030302 Hollow Stage Decoupler

LM-00 Support Structure

LM-00 Descent Engine

AA-BB Linear Decoupling Strut

KW-LFC 1x2 Meter (Kyle & Winston)

KW Series Globe V-L Solid Fuel Motor (Kyle & Winston)

I did about 30 screenshots, attached you find the ones that actually don\'t suck. I\'m not really a photographer.

[RedRockets]

Nice job Ivanovich. I like your lander it reminds me of the direct assent moon lander first proposed by von Braun for NASA. I suspect that your Kerbalites inside would have the same problem of getting out and making it down to the surface.

[Sofa499]

(Whole thread here)

The MDV-1 and the Precursor spacecraft (a probe intended to scout out an ideal landing zone and test the gravitational properties of the moon)

The MDV-2 'Triumph' rocket, carrying the LLV-1 lander.

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

My lander was ready to use, but I had to

[RedRockets]

Sofa that is just Massive! Love It!!!

Its astonishing how large a rocket is on the platform and how tinnie-winnie the return capsule ends up being.

[greencross]

And here we are. The mighty 'Gilgamesh' Mk2 UPD. Hello LightSet

delivered 'Argo-II' spacecraft

right to Mun.

The flight capture is below (24 images):

The craft: http://content.wuala.com/contents/greencross.am/KSP/Gilgamesh-Argo-II.craft?dl=1

Edited June 17, 2014 by greencross

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

And here we are. The mighty 'Gilgamesh' Mk2

delivered 'Argo-II' spacecraft

right to Mun.

The flight capture is below (24 images):

The craft: http://content.wuala.com/contents/greencross.am/KSP/Gilgamesh-Argo-II.craft?dl=1

How come it didn\'t wobbled like a madman

anyways, congratulations. got my test shots on Mun, but still ending up crashing. My most recent (and nearest) attempt got me almost on the surface, my lander hovered dangerously fast (12 m/s) and I wasn\'t able to bleed off the excess speed.

[Sofa499]

Sofa that is just Massive! Love It!!!

Its astonishing how large a rocket is on the platform and how tinnie-winnie the return capsule ends up being.

I swear, I tried making the thing as compact and efficient as possible.

[greencross]

How come it didn\'t wobbled like a madman

anyways, congratulations. got my test shots on Mun, but still ending up crashing. My most recent (and nearest) attempt got me almost on the surface, my lander hovered dangerously fast (12 m/s) and I wasn\'t able to bleed off the excess speed.

Thanks, this was my second voyage. First was on Gilgamesh-Argo I and ended up as a one way trip with a crash.

P.S. Actually it wobbles after SRB separation, but only a little due to extensive use of struts )))

[Fabri91]

Here\'s my Mun-rocket. Only uses Silisko\'s parts. To make it more maneuverable but without inducing wobbling I used a non-steerable main engine, with little steerable boosters, which empty about at the same time (a couple of seconds later, actually).

Fly the first stage to depletion, but keep the boosters attached and firing until they deplete as well. I tried to reduce the number and type of fuel tanks, but after they deplete, this behemoth becomes unresponsive, to say the least.

[RedRockets]

I swear, I tried making the thing as compact and efficient as possible.

That\'s what i mean...no matter how compact you try to make a Mun rocket they are just huge by definition...as more planets are added they are going to get super massive, to big even for the VAB or the launch platform...that is unless docking and saving the game progress is initiated so you can launch multiple components or even refueling stations out in orbits to seed the tools of exploration around the Kerbal system.

[Sofa499]

That\'s what i mean...no matter how compact you try to make a Mun rocket they are just huge by definition...as more planets are added they are going to get super massive, to big even for the VAB or the launch platform...that is unless docking and saving the game progress is initiated so you can launch multiple components or even refueling stations out in orbits to seed the tools of exploration around the Kerbal system.

I think it\'d be great if there was a 'construction module' for stations, that act as a 'wet-dock' style VAB, but you have to ship materials up in order to use them.

[RedRockets]

i don\'t understand what you mean sofa? What is a \'wet dock\'?

[Sofa499]

i don\'t understand what you mean sofa? What is a \'wet dock\'?

I keep forgetting space is not an ocean.

Basically, just a means of constructing spacecraft too large or unwieldy to be launched from kearth itself, even in separate pieces, in a zero-G environment in which it will stay.

[RedRockets]

Thanks Sofa!

I love this forum such quick answers!