Spider Probe [image heavy] Jool,Eve;Duna

[Neotician]

Hey, i decided to start sending probes around to planets i haven't been on (which is all except kerbin, mün and minmus) and thus i've constructed this; the spider probe.

The probe contains all the scientific equipment known to kerbal kind and powerful transmission capabilities, to send the important discoveries back to kerbin.

The probe has aprox 3700 m/s DeltaV after decoupling from launch vehicle (launch vehicle also included)

The launch vehicle is designed to bring the probe to a 600+ km orbit, so that i was able to use maximum time-warp when waiting for interplanetary transfer.

The spider is version 2 of my original probe, which is currently laying on its side on Duna, and has served its purpose well.

Currently, i've been able to land the Spider on Eve and Jool (yep).

anyhow, pics! (download is at the bottom)

Probe on launchpad without launch vehicle:

Burning thru Eve's atmosphere:

Landed on Jool:

Tracking station:

Download:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86655926/KerboProbHe.zip

Edited June 8, 2013 by Neotician

[Mekan1k]

How on Kerbin did you land on Jool?

[Neotician]

How on Kerbin did you land on Jool?

Magic and parachutes

[thederper121]

I thought it wasn't possible to land on Jool...

No, NO, IT CANNOT BE! MY BRAIN! IT'S M-MELTI-innngg...

[PolecatEZ]

You can actually plant a flag on Jool as well. It doesn't last more than a few hours though for some reason, it will just randomly disappear later.

[Neotician]

Well, the surface of Jool is a strange place.

The probe reads a pressure of 15.14 and if i go to the tracking station and back to jool, it'll jump 5-10 meters in the air and then touch down again.

I had the throttle turned up on my joystick, the probe was just burning the remaining 3 units or so of fuel

Should also be noted that it has landed 96 meters below the surface.

Any of these might be why the flag disappears

Edited June 8, 2013 by Neotician