Munar Delivery (Stock)

[Bluejayek]

This ship is capable of achieving munar orbit, launching a small satellite (full RCS tank + decoupler), landing accurately on the mun, dropping a small payload (another RCS tank and decoupler) and returning safely to Kerbin. Landing accuracy of course depends on your piloting skills, but there is plenty of fuel to adjust your orbit as needed. I can easily touch down craft within 100m of each other, and can probably do better if I try.

The way I have flown this, there is not a whole lot of fuel left in the tanks for the kerbin landing. You need to make a semi-powered landing, as the innermost \'abort\' stage has about a 50% chance of exploding if you try to parachute down with it.

24 tanks, 12 solid boosters. Nowhere near as minimal as some of the amazing designs others have made, but I find it reasonable for what it can do.

[sal_vager]

It\'s a nice ship, I especially like that you can drop the satellite and payload (or 2 satellites?) that\'s much more than most people.

This would be pretty cool parked at the community mun base

[Bluejayek]

It\'s a nice ship, I especially like that you can drop the satellite and payload (or 2 satellites?) that\'s much more than most people.

This would be pretty cool parked at the community mun base

Yeah, it would. I think I\'ll sign up, and maybe get to fly it there in a month ;D

Dropping the second as a payload doesn\'t entirely work. Apparently, the drop of 2 meters or so on the mun is enough to make the RCS tank explode. Somebody needs to build the thing better. However, the decoupler on top stays intact, so there is some payload delivery! I may try putting landing legs on the RCS tank and see if that helps. The extra weight might be a problem though.

[sal_vager]

Actually I think I know what your problem is with the RCS tank on the Mun.

The Kerbals seem to have made their RCS tanks out of paper and have no concept of impact tolerance, I have tried before to on one, and even at 0.1m/s it\'ll blow.

I\'d suggest ditching the RCS tank as an instrument package and use a SAS or a second stack decoupler instead.