Mun mining Base Challange: Its not the biggest that counts!

[sjwt]

Rather than the biggest, lets see who can get the most payload mass to touch down as a Mun base with a return of the crew..

Back Story:

A recent Mun expedition has found a large stock pile of an extremely rare element that is not normally found on Kerbin, CS or better known as common sense. This rare element is highly sort after.

CS is extremely hard to mine, the amount you can mine will be equal to 1000th the weigh of the base you take up, ie a total mass of 10units will return 10 grams of CS.

This element is unstable, and wont stick around for multiple launches/Rendezvous/Docking, so get it before its gone!

Rules:

Happy to run a Stock and a Mod, but I don\'t know mods, so please suggest what should be fair game.

Total mass = Unused virgin parts left on the Mun after your safe return., that decoupler you use for your return stage dose not count. The RCS jets that were used at all do not count, if you have two tanks of RCS left behind, but one was even used for a second, you can only count one...

Lander legs used to touch down do not count.

Struts do not count.

Empty or partly used fuel tanks do not count.

Parts placed for purely ascetic reasons do count if unused.

Parts brought in from a Rendezvous/Docking do not count.

[sjwt]

My entry as bellow,

One Mun base,

46.25 units - Main base (37 x small tanks- FL-T250 1.25)

3 units - 6 deep space transmission discs(LV-909 small engines 0.5)

2.4 units - 6 wide band transmitters (Redial decouplers 0.4)

1.2 units - expanding large radio wave receiver( 12 Landing legs 0.1)

Total retune of 52.85 grams of common sense!

My Kerbals might be able to balance the budget with that much CS!

More info on the lander and launcher over at http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=9947.0

[Tim_Barrett]

-awesome lander info-

I saw your other thread, but never asked the question: what is the purpose of those engines on the top of it?

[sjwt]

I saw your other thread, but never asked the question: what is the purpose of those engines on the top of it?

Why Stock transmission dishes!

Because I am lazy, a copy past from my other post..

For the Base I used a large round style base (37 half fuel tanks in a solid circle, all full when dropped off), 6 transmission discs for earth/deep space transmissions(small Engines), 6 wide band local transmitters(Radial decouplers) and 12 extension units to provide a large radio wave receiver (Lander legs)

[Tim_Barrett]

Why Stock transmission dishes!

Because I am lazy, a copy past from my other post..

For the Base I used a large round style base (37 half fuel tanks in a solid circle, all full when dropped off), 6 transmission discs for earth/deep space transmissions(small Engines), 6 wide band local transmitters(Radial decouplers) and 12 extension units to provide a large radio wave receiver (Lander legs)

Aren\'t the engines heavy though?

[sjwt]

Aren\'t the engines heavy though?

The whole point of this was to make a base as a payload, all those 37 half sized fuel tanks are full too, and the engines way much less then those!