Parachute Asteroid

[Lohan2008]

OVI 225 C is a 6 tonne 'roid, is it possible to parachute the Asteroid to Kerbal surface ??

Edited April 5, 2014 by Lohan2008

[capi3101]

Oughta be. You'd probably need KAS.

EDIT: Strike that - go with http://ksp.freeiz.com/, and add the six tonne mass of the 'roid to the end mass of the ship you send out there to grab it when you're making your calculations.

[700NitroXpress]

Yes it is, If you make a claw unit with a parachute attached to it, you can attach multiple claw units to an asteroid and all of the parachutes will be active in one stage. The same thing works for engines. I'm working with a larger asteroid and have 15 parachutes attached to it, 5 orange and 10 blue. Now I'm just attaching engines to it so I can pilot it accurately down to the KSC and land it. The asteroids act like ships with unlimited docking ports for the claw. So everything that you attach to them can be activated in stages and controlled the same way.

[Francesco]

You don't need parachutes to land asteroids.

Asteroids don't break!

(maybe they will in 0.24?)