A javelin landing spike

[SamuelGTurner]

Hey Guys,

Just been thinking for really low end science when you're coming down into some heavy gravity before you get to landing legs make be a landing spike could be used which would implant you into the ground upon impact and then you can detach. Could also be a cool way to send rover landers off from a space station as you could just let them land all by themselves,

Just a thought, let me know what you think

Sam

[Nobody]

I don't think that would work well for a landing system but would be fun as a mod that is compatible with KMP. I can see people playing orbital lawn darts already.

As to a low tech un-powered landing system air bags would work better. Rover goes in a box covered in the bags and gets dropped from orbit then bounces to a stop before deflating and coming out.

[TheGeoninja]

Rover goes in a box covered in the bags and gets dropped from orbit then bounces to a stop before deflating and coming out.

Thank you so much you just gave me an idea for how to land my rover on the mun!

[edwardc]

After reading this my first thought was that spikes can work in both directions. I had this picture of a Kerbal kebab stuck on the Mun.

I don't think the planet meshes distinguish between soft ground and solid rock. Unless you want the low tech spike to lightsaber it's way into solid rock.

I think it would be interesting to have but I'd probably use girders instead and fake the landing gear.