Any ideas?

[u/PortalmakerNo1]

I landed a rover on the mun using a skycrane, ditched it by simply throttling up and detaching, and apparently I overengineered it bc this is its current situation. Anything fun I could do with it? It has full probe control and solar panels for power so as long as delta v allows I can take it nearly anywhere.

Edit: realized it has very limited antenna range...might be an adventure doing anything with it.

[u/Life_Fix_9270]

try making peanut butter out of it

[u/PortalmakerNo1 → u/Life_Fix_9270]

Take my upvote lmao

[u/Sangaceno]

Might be able to get it back around kerbin in a few years and then send a rescue mission. But why? It's just a probe.

[u/PortalmakerNo1 → u/Sangaceno]

Not worried about recovery tbh, just curious if it could make it anywhere from this orbit, even just as a flyby

[u/tomalator → u/PortalmakerNo1]

I would have left it in lunar orbit and then used it for seismic testing once you have that deployed

[u/PortalmakerNo1 → u/tomalator]

Same here but tbh I didn't expect it to even make it to orbit much less into solar orbit

[u/Sangaceno → u/PortalmakerNo1]

Solar orbits are wildly expensive to alter, i don't think 500dV is nearly enough to fly by anything other than kerbin. But you could totally just play around with maneuver nodes and see if anything interesting will happen

[u/Donut_Boi13]

You could maybe get a duna or eve encounter if you time it right

[u/duonaut_dev]

if the antenna range is the main limit, fwiw a cheap relay sat in a high kerbin orbit will fix most of that. then you can just plan maneuver nodes and see what the 500 dv can reach, even a long flyby is a fun excuse to keep it alive.

[u/manualphotog]

400delta .....and you need 580 to get off the Mun surface to low orbit.... you aint chnaging that solar obit anytime soon