kerbal style mun landing.

[simplerocketscience]

finally managed to land on the mun:D...on my rocket's side of course:(...I need to practice landing:confused:...yeah used the kerbal X:cool:...when i tried to take off everything exploded except the command pod;.;...so now I get to land on the mun to rescue them:huh:...hope I don't have the same problem:mad:

[Spooks]

good job and good luck

[Liowen]

Try to get your horizontal velocity negated then all you have to worry about is your vertical velocity. If you keep it under 7m/s (lower is even better) you should be golden, just be prepared to chase the circle with an X in it...yeah I do not know that term for some reason . Feather the throttle, chase the node, and use crtl+L to ensure you do not decouple anything on accident. The last one was one I did once or three times before figuring that out...

Also I have a video, though a bit lengthy, showing my landing on Mun and Minimus, and my Mun mission I actually landed on my side but got the ship back upright without engine assist. If you want to see it I will post it here if you ask...I don't want to post it and it wasn't warrented.

[magnemoe]

One tips is to make your lander wide, so many try to land with an high 1.25 meter rocket. Use side tanks and fuel pipes.

Also land on Minmus first, far easier as the gravity is much lower and things happen slower. After a couple of successful Minmus landing you can try the Mun.

[relin]

...yeah I do not know that term for some reason

Not sure on the official name, but it indicates retrograde motion so... retrograde indicator?

[GuiltyBystander]

My first landing on the Mun on its' side too. I've done it twice so far actually. And both times I managed to take off just fine (I was so surprised too). I used the torque in the capsule to lift the nose off the ground just enough so I wouldn't be launching into the ground or the next mountain. If you can, also try to roll around so you're pointing up hill.

Edited November 27, 2013 by GuiltyBystander
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[jwenting]

One tips is to make your lander wide, so many try to land with an high 1.25 meter rocket. Use side tanks and fuel pipes.

Also land on Minmus first, far easier as the gravity is much lower and things happen slower. After a couple of successful Minmus landing you can try the Mun.

which works well, if the surface is flat enough

Which is rather hard since the new craters were added of course.

[Markus Reese]

Agreed, when landing, my lander is typically as wide, or wider as it is tall. Athetically they look pretty good since the outer wide parts are my lander engines and part of the connectivity for my launch engines.

For picking landing spots, with the new terrain, I have started attaching scout probes to my rockets. On zero atmosphere, I make a hopper style that just pulses fuel until I find a nice spot. With atmosphere, mini probe planes. These then serve as excellent landing beacons.

[Kasuha]

Do not go to rescue them with Kerbal X. That ship is not good enough to return from Mun.

[magnemoe]

which works well, if the surface is flat enough

Which is rather hard since the new craters were added of course.

Few places outside the Mun poles is more hilly than the Dress rift.

As for avoiding the crater rims, keep some horizontal speed and cancel this then its flat enough below.

I did not know this then that Dress landing was done.

[Thomas988]

Here is how I land:

1. Deorbit yourself so you're at a very wide sub-orbital arch.

2. Burn horizontal so you kill as much lateral velocity as possible.

3. Once you're going straight down, burn retrograde so you remain at a safe 50 m/s or so. (Depends on on how powerful of an engine you have)

[Liowen]

Not sure on the official name, but it indicates retrograde motion so... retrograde indicator?

That was the word I was looking for last night, but for the life of me I could not think of it for some reason.

[EtherDragon]

In order to get to the Mun and back with the Kerbal X - you need to modify it a little bit.

Get rid of those tiny booster stages and step up to a 6-pack of Rockomax with Asparagus staging. That should give you plenty of rocket to reach orbit and head to the Mun before dropping the main rocket. Then the command pod should have enough juice to land, take off, and plot a reentry course from Mun.

Good luck!

[simplerocketscience]

thanks for all the tips:)

[Liowen]

Few places outside the Mun poles is more hilly than the Dress rift.

As for avoiding the crater rims, keep some horizontal speed and cancel this then its flat enough below.

I did not know this then that Dress landing was done.

I actually landed in this same spot I think....with 26 Kerbals!

As seen here:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/60257-Most-kerbals-to-the-Mun-and-back/page3

thanks for all the tips:)

Did you get them all home safe, or still working on the rescue mission??

Edited December 6, 2013 by Liowen

[jebisanaggie]

I kill my horizontal and then use rcs for horizontal movement. This prevents me from discovering that I am moving sideways at 30m/s about 10 meters off of the ground.

Not that I didn't learn that the hard way or anything...

[FlamedSteak]

Drop in vertically on bodies with no atmosphere, it's the easiest way to go and you can get near pinpoint landings if you're johnny on the spot killing the horizontal from your trajectory.