Mun hook lander to orbit

[Beerkeg]

Kinda hard to explain what I mean, but I'll give it a shot. (Badly drawn pain pic coming later on).

Basically you land something really light on the Mun. Your lander will have a ring like hook thing streching into the air (Doesn't matter how big it is, but weight is an issue). Then you'll put a hook thing to orbit the Mun and grab the lander and take it to orbit. Your lander wont have thrusters or fuel, must carry atleast 1 Kerbal. The weight of the orbital hook doesn't matter, personal prefference, unbreakable links (or w\e in the debug menu) is allowed, but would like to see someone manage it without it. The orbital hook must keep an orbit while hooking (no slowing down, grabbing and then speeding up). Also I'd say don't use mods or modded parts.

Videos would be awesome (even attempts)

Cheers!

[Johnno]

I'll go ahead and say that this is impossible. Unbreakable joints doesn't make joints unbreakable, just a lot stronger. Either way you're trying to snatch and grab something off the Mün's surface while at orbital speed.

Beerkeg please show that this is possible.

Also for further challenges, please read the guidelines, some sort of scoring system is almost necessary for people to participate.

[British_Rover]

This almost sounds like the Fulton recovery system.

I suppose this is doable but how do you get the lander on the Mun if it has no fuel or thrusters? I don't see how you could make something that would lithobrake on the mun light enough to survive with a kerbal in it and land with the hook in an upright position.

A better challenge would to be pose this as an emergency rescue scenario.

Your one man lander has been damaged in someway and cannot fire its rockets. KSC planned for this situation and installed the Kulton Skyhook recovery system on both the lander and CM.

The CM can't land for various reasons, no landing legs and/or too heavy, but it can approach the surface at a low speed and catch the LM's hook with its own hook. If you brought the CM in slow enough you should be able to hook the LM without breaking anything. Assuming you can design a hook that will actually hold the LM as it flops around at liftoff.

Bonus points to make it more like the Fulton system if you can figure out a way to use a winch from the KAS and sepatrons to fire the winch line up for the CM to catch. Not sure if that last part is doable with the way switching between ships is done at low altitudes and how physics load is set at approach distances. I think you would have to put the CM in an extremely low orbit, then switch to the LM and time the launch of the winch so that the CM reaches it before it falls back down.

This is a 100% doable using the magnet on KAS to grab the LM but I don't know if you can design a hook with stock parts that won't let go as you accelerate to orbital speed.