Surveyor-1 (replica)

[Nik_601]

Greetings to everybody!

Some time ago I decided to make replicas of some Moon missions, and here's the first one:

"Surveyor-1"

"Surveyor 1" was the first USA lunar soft-lander in the unmanned Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was launched May 30, 1966, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and it landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966. "Surveyor 1" transmitted 11,237 still photos of the lunar surface to the Earth by using a television camera and a sophisticated radio-telemetry system.

Launch vehicle - Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D.

Here's imgur-album with images of Muna mission:

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Here're some craft charasteristics:

Part count - 303

Total mass - 109,01 t

Action groups:

1 - toggle antennas

2 - toggle scientific equipment

Download the craft here

Hope you'll enjoy it!

Edited September 12, 2014 by Nik_601

[Darth Lazarus]

downlaoding and testing ...

the imgur album looks promissing

big edit:

so i have tested your Surveyor-1 with yur Atlas-Centaur rocket. i have o say the Probe looks realyl fanatstic and flys nicely- intersting way to brake in munorbit with the retrorockets.

but your Atlas-Centaur is a bit ... oversized? you can do a manned mun mission with a lander with such an oversized rocket. and regarding your realistic Surveyor-1 probe, you did mistakes with the Atlas-Centaur:

-first of all, you have an additinal not needed stage with a look like an oversized Centaur.

-second Centaur and Atlas have the same diameter

-third the early Atlas drops the outer 2 engines during flight, i now this is not easy to replicate, but worth. espeacily when yu are building such a nice looking reaöstic probe.

- Centaur has some RCS thrusters for attitudecontroll

as a help:

look at Mulbin's american rockets. he has build a good Mercury-Atlas. maybe it will inspire you for your own Atlas.

and you should think about using Kerbal Engineer redux. this plugin is a great help for calculating the requivred dV for your missions

keep the good work! looking for more from you

Edited September 9, 2014 by Darth Lazarus

[Aetvo141]

Night screens...

[Nik_601]

downlaoding and testing ...

the imgur album looks promissing

big edit:

so i have tested your Surveyor-1 with yur Atlas-Centaur rocket. i have o say the Probe looks realyl fanatstic and flys nicely- intersting way to brake in munorbit with the retrorockets.

but your Atlas-Centaur is a bit ... oversized? you can do a manned mun mission with a lander with such an oversized rocket. and regarding your realistic Surveyor-1 probe, you did mistakes with the Atlas-Centaur:

-first of all, you have an additinal not needed stage with a look like an oversized Centaur.

-second Centaur and Atlas have the same diameter

-third the early Atlas drops the outer 2 engines during flight, i now this is not easy to replicate, but worth. espeacily when yu are building such a nice looking reaöstic probe.

- Centaur has some RCS thrusters for attitudecontroll

as a help:

look at Mulbin's american rockets. he has build a good Mercury-Atlas. maybe it will inspire you for your own Atlas.

and you should think about using Kerbal Engineer redux. this plugin is a great help for calculating the requivred dV for your missions

keep the good work! looking for more from you

Thank you for remarks and advices, Darth Lazarus!

I've rebuilt Atlas and Centaur. Hope now they're more correct)

[Marine07]

Wow, that's really cool!!

[Nik_601]

Wow, that's really cool!!

Thanks, Marine07!)