Minmus Ion hovercraft

[Ojimak]

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This craft is basically an ion powered hovercraft for use on Minmus. The reaction wheel allows for fairly good control, the solar cells/batteries allow for flight when you're not in super-direct sunlight, and the landing gear allows for safe, although not recommended, landings of around 50 m/s. The current twr is high enough on Minmus that several more crew could possibly be added in seats, but then it'd require a launch vehicle that could hold more crew. Alternatively, a several-seated version could be sent to be used as a Minmus taxi between already-crewed bases.

The launcher is just a basic asparagus-staged Minmus rocket. There is a large fuel excess in the NERVA transfer stage, but I guess that makes it n00b-friendly. The launcher should allow for the transport of a Kerbal/hovercraft to Minmus and the transport back of the Kerbal back to Kebin afterwards. (Honestly, the launcher was just a normal Minmus rocket onto the top of which the hovercraft was added; the hovercraft weighs next to nothing with all of its massless parts)

Action Groups:

1. toggle the solar cells and the decorative antenna

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-Ojimak

[TheGeoninja]

Pretty cool. You could even use that as a crane.