Rover on Eeloo! With skycrane, Curiosity style! (stock)

[chri]

So, this is my second interplanetary mission and I was fascinated by that far, frozen ball of rock which is Eeloo, so I decided to put a small unmanned rover on it, I had trouble thinking on how to make a light lander that had enough deltaV to land on Eeloo..so I took inspiration by the Curiosity rover and I used a skycrane!

For those of you who don't know about Curiosity rover and it's skycrane...well, how's life under that rock? Anyway, basically the Curiosity rover on Mars was landed with engines above it and dropped with some cables on the ground, the skycrane was then flown away safely, I couldn't use cables in KSP but oh well...

I know it's a pretty average mission, nothing special, but I'm not a pro at KSP and I was pretty proud of myself when I finished this, in particular for the skycrane part, so I decided to share it here

here is the log!

Ready for launch

got an encounter, I guess I couldn't ask for a more efficient one!

Oh god...will I have enough fuel to slow down?

Yep, I had, hi Eeloo, slowing down for an orbit!

Got a stable, equatorial, circular 30 km orbit

Coming in for landing...

Releasing the skycrane! (couldn't take a better photo cause the moment was so tense O_O)

KABOOM!

And here's my buggy, finally landed on Eeloo

Edited August 4, 2013 by chri

[Geschosskopf]

Congrats! That's no mean achievement, no matter how you rate your skilz .

Don't you love the engineering challenges in KSP?

[chri]

Congrats! That's no mean achievement, no matter how you rate your skilz .

Don't you love the engineering challenges in KSP?

thank you!

love 'em!