Mün Kethane Mining Operation

[Neotician]

So, i've been gone from KSP for a while and decided to give Kethane mod a whirl, and planned to make a Kethane-fueled Refueling station in orbit.

After quickly realising that Kethane mining on Kerbin would be a complicated and inefficient task, i put my sight on the Mün!

After putting a sattelite in Mün orbit and scanning most of it, i started the project:

I started by designing a mining base in 3 segments, An extractor(3 drills and 3 solar panels), a storage segment and a landing pad.

Then i made a vehicle capable of picking up the segments once they've landed on the Mün, and putting them together; This only worked for the extractor and storage segments though, so i had to add a rover to the bottom of the Landing pad segment, which could then drive it to it's spot and disengage.

Getting the segments to the mun was a relatively easy task, since they were all empty of fuel etc. and simply needed to be put down in one piece, in the general vicinity of the Mover-Rover (I really suck at names)

While i've gotten the Base up and running, the project is still a WIP, since i still need to get a station in orbit and design the transport craft for the kethane.

I intend to upload all .crafts once the project is done, but if anyone want files for the 3 segments and the mover, gimme a shout.

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Edited January 21, 2014 by Neotician

[Captain Sierra]

Just hope you know how hard it's gonna be to land on that docking port on the landing pad.

You might consider a lander with wheels.

ANyways, very nice. It's good to see more and more people taking up modular bases.

[Reapercore]

Looks nice, wouldn't mind checking out what you've got so far.

[Neotician]

Just hope you know how hard it's gonna be to land on that docking port on the landing pad.

You might consider a lander with wheels.

ANyways, very nice. It's good to see more and more people taking up modular bases.

Yeah i realized that when i was actually assembling the base, was rather hard to vtol hover to land the segments where i wanted them.

Here, i'll show you the design i'm working on for the Kethane lifter