Minmus tug now what?

[Tidus Klein]

well I have been playing career mode and decided to go to minmus for the first real time, I launch a lander and then launched and docked a tug to it and sent it to minmus to do an Apollo style landing and return. sadly I forgot minmus had like 1 half mun gravity and was able to do 70% of the landing on RCS alone.

so in other words the lander is back at kerbin with tons of science and the tug is in a 6 to 8,000 orbit around minmus with a little over a quarter of its fuel left and almost all its RCS, what should I do with it?

tug specs:

4 LVN lander engines, (the shallow yellow ones)

1 stayputnic

4 lvt-400 tanks (two have full fuel)

1 lvt-800 tank (has about half fuel, had to pump fuel back to lander do to tug using its first tank)

4 rcs blocks

200 units of RCS fuel.

and other misc stuffs for space travel and tug operations.

no chutes/ legs by the way never intended it to land

Edited November 5, 2013 by Tidus Klein

[Blackstar]

Land the tug on Minmus just for the fun of it. Its gravity is so low that you don't really need lander legs or anything.

[Tidus Klein]

ya but can the staypunik live?

I have it on the bottom of the tug sandwiched in by the four engines and it sticks out a bit so the tug would basically land on its brains

[Blackstar]

You could decelarate with your LV-Ns, then use RCS to flip it and land on its belly. RCS should be plenty for the final touchdown, it doesn't sound too heavy from the specs you posted. Though that might not work if you have some fragile solar panels on the side.

[Sirrobert]

You could crash it, also just for the fun of it

Does it have solar pannels? Otherwise it's going to die soon anyway due to lack of power

[Tidus Klein]

Ya it has panels the cheap none deploying ones, about 6 for each side,

Four or so small battery packs a normal docking port, 4 com 66's, and one or two things I can't remember right now.

[MatzahMan]

What I do with my old tugs/obsolete ships/etc. is leave them in orbit an use them as fuel depots by connecting them to other useless fuel containers I have floating around. It's an excuse to build a space station/fuel depot anyway around Minmus, which can also help with interplanetary stuff because its a final stop/refueling before you go out, and its easy to escape Kerbin's gravity from there.

[Tidus Klein]

Well Blackstar I took your idea and did this.

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as you can see it still has an ok amount of fuel left, and im thinking of doing something else with it any ideas. actually thinking of setting it as debris so latter in the game when I forget about it. it would be like a self made Easter egg!

Edited November 8, 2013 by Tidus Klein