How low can you go

[Penguinhero]

The challenge: build a spacecraft that can orbit the lowest around the mun without crashing

The Rules:

mods are allowed (excluding mechjeb, hyper edit, dev cheat hack gravity, editing save file, etc.)

You must fly the rocket manually no cheating

May not be in sub-orbit trajectory

The mun only

Orbit CAN! be elliptical

Picture of map view and the craft or it didn't happen

The winner:

One with the lowest orbit wins

Good luck

Scoreboard:

1096bimu-2887m

Edited June 1, 2013 by Penguinhero

[1096bimu]

What counts as an orbit? does it have to go all the way around or can it crash into high mountains? What mods are allowed? here is my clear and unclear orbits, 1k and 2.2k.

[Penguinhero]

you have to be able to not hit a mountain in the orbit

updated the rules for what mods aren't allowed

[astropapi1]

mods are allowed (excluding mechjeb, hyper edit, dev cheat hack gravity, etc.)

So can I put the craft in it's orbit by editing the presistence file? What mods are not allowed? you only included some, hence the "etc."

Edited June 1, 2013 by astropapi1
Made a typo. :P

[Penguinhero]

So can I put the craft in it's orbit by editing the presistence file? What mods are not allowed? you only included some, hence the "etc."

I updated The rules again

[1096bimu]

[Atanar]

You should modify the rules to "you have to be able to make 1 full orbit without steering". Also you could move it to minmus to make it more interesting. Posting the full orbit info would be nice, you can test them yourself then.

[Flixxbeatz]

Just a few ten meters above munar surface (anything lower and I'll crash on a mountain).

Also this one: 2,300ish something meters (screenie with altimeter coming up). Anything lower will also cause me to clip a high surface.

All stock, no mods and plugins used.

Your move now, OP. Go and give your challenge a shot

[rodion_herrera]

I think the key here is to bring up a map of Mun or Minmus and try to draw a straight line to where there are few mountains and there's a clear cut "pass"...voila, you have your inclination for ONE orbit (since orbits precess, you'll still eventually hit a mountain, but one orbit should be fine).

[Penguinhero]

Captain Kalawang i cant see the altimeter or the map view so I cant put you on the scoreboard please put pics of them to get scored

but until then sorry...