First landing on Hale, epic view of Sarnus!

[sedativechunk]

So I just landed on Hale, a moon that is part of the outer planets mod pack. VERY HARD moon to get to, enormously low gravitational influence, my CM orbiting the moon also collided into a mountain while I was descending in my lander. Now my Kerbal has to get back to the mothership under it's own limited consumables (including life support). I don't think Errik Kerman minds so much though, he got an awesome photograph!

[Tommygun]

Nice view, I can't even get into orbit let alone land on it.

I think it is partly because of a weak soi inside a very strong soi.

If Hale were orbiting a small planet, it might not have this problem.

[lajoswinkler]

Wow, so you've made it! Congrats, good work!

Yes, it has an awesome view, and you don't even need a lander for it; jetpack is more than enough cause this satellite is lighter than Gilly. Navigation around Hale (and Ovok, to some extent) is more like rendezvousing with a spacecraft than actual landing.

Try to jump and record the maximum height.

[sedativechunk]

Oh yes, this planet was VERY hard to get into orbit around. Basically during my approach, Hale was catching up to me, so I started to increase my velocity to match it before encounter. It was difficult, I had to try it over several times, life support lasted me but it was tough.

[jebediah 56354]

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i landed on hale stock no mods but it is VERY HARD TO GET TO! because low gravity tiny SOI and extremely high orbital intercept velocities combined it takes about 1km/s of delta v to brake but i did it in an ssto!

Edited February 29, 2016 by jebediah 56354

[Geschosskopf]

On 2/3/2015 at 3:02 AM, sedativechunk said:

So I just landed on Hale, a moon that is part of the outer planets mod pack. VERY HARD moon to get to, enormously low gravitational influence, my CM orbiting the moon also collided into a mountain while I was descending in my lander. Now my Kerbal has to get back to the mothership under it's own limited consumables (including life support). I don't think Errik Kerman minds so much though, he got an awesome photograph!

Yeah, IIRC, Hale's SOI is only about 28km wide so it's hard to hit and very hard to stop before you go out the other side, if you come to it from a low Sarnus Pe capture burn.  I find the easiest way to get to Hale is from Orvok.

On the plus side for your stranded Kerbal, escape velocity at Hale is only 16m/s, easily within jetpack capability.  The problem is, orbital velocity is only like 5-7m/s, so it.....takes......forever...... to rendezvous there.  If you're on a time constraint due to life support, try to rendezvous directly from the ground as the ship is passing overhead.