This is absolutely unethical, but behold! An enormous triply folded rover that fits in yet a massive rocket. To make things even more unethical, it is crewed by 4 astronauts.

The rocket and landing stage are designed to go to and land on Cylero.
Note: Tested with Cylero in the new solar system only.

INSTRUCTIONS

Atmospheric entry

Get an encounter (NOT ORBIT) in your Hohmann trajectory with Cylero and make sure to get a periapsis around 11.5 km when you get closer. Ditch the cruise stage before entry. Use RCS activation-10 to steer in the atmosphere. See my sandbox post for more details, as this is the exact same thing, on a massive scale.

After igniting the landing stage, use RCS activation-7 to stabilize and extend the landing gear before touch-down (activation-2) and set the brakes.

EXTENSION

The rover is a monstrosity folded in three parts.
We will now see how to unfold it.

After landing check-list
  • Ditch the engines.
  • Brakes set.
  • Check activation-3 deactivated.
  • Check activation-1 deactivated.
  • Slider-1 set to center.
  • Slider-2 set to center.
Unfolding sequence
  1. Unfold the top with activation-3, and put slider-1 all the way up. Wait until the top is upright 90 degrees.
  2. Important, after stabilizing disable activation-3, and then set slider-1 back to center.
  3. Activate activation-1, and put slider-2 all the way up. Wait until it has rotated 180 and stabilized.
  4. Put slider-1 all the way up to extend the rest.

Release the brakes, throttle up and enjoy!

GENERAL INFO

  • Created On: Windows
  • Game Version: 0.9.616.1
  • Price: $764,672k
  • Number of Parts: 165
  • Dimensions: 71 m x 26 m x 25 m

PERFORMANCE

  • Total Delta V: 10.0km/s
  • Total Thrust: 206.0MN
  • Engines: 31
  • Wet Mass: 8.2E+6kg
  • Dry Mass: 6.38E+5kg

STAGES

Stage Engines Delta V Thrust Burn Mass
1 6 2.9km/s 105.0MN 2.4m 8.2E+6kg
3 5 4.0km/s 90.8MN 65s 2.7E+6kg
5 4 2.1km/s 8.4MN 87s 4.97E+5kg
10 12 1.1km/s 1.9MN 44s 94,645kg

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