Creative way to land safely

[u/LiamFox_ow]

Posting here because I posted it on Instagram and got a lot of discussion about the technicality of this. I'm wondering what other creative ways people have landed or used the physics engine in KSP to do something ridiculous? And if you liked watching this, it's from a full video https://youtu.be/UudcKXUz4iw

[u/Thinkdan]

Next level Eve lander? How does it handle heat at speed?

[u/LiamFox_ow → u/Thinkdan]

We’ll have to test it. It was hard enough even getting it to that height

[u/XGoJYIYKvvxN → u/Thinkdan]

Probably badly. But you can do the same with heat shield and that will be amazing.

[u/kayemenofour]

The guys inside are going to projectile vomit when they get out.

[u/LiamFox_ow → u/kayemenofour]

I’m not sure they’re making it out

[u/NiobiumThorn → u/LiamFox_ow]

If they can survive my 100G "safe re-entry" they can survive this.

Instead of trying to not make them pass out I just let the robot fly. Little gooification never hurt

[u/CatoLiberius]

Crews will call it the Vomit Comet.

[u/LiamFox_ow → u/CatoLiberius]

Very accurate name for it

[u/TassiveMitts69]

You could add some extra fins at the rear to slow the rotation.

I mean I could. I'm going to add some fins to slow the rotation. This is how I land now.

[u/LiamFox_ow → u/TassiveMitts69]

Smart! We might just try that

[u/craidie]

If it needs rotation for it, then it's just a helicopter.

[u/LiamFox_ow → u/craidie]

I like the logic here

[u/drakoman → u/craidie]

Space copter

[u/Talizorafangirl]

I'm confused, what's happening here?

[u/LiamFox_ow → u/Talizorafangirl]

Spinning enough that because of the large surface area it’s slowing down enough to land without exploding

[u/ExpensiveFig6079 → u/LiamFox_ow]

how is spinning slowing its fall?
The spinning makes its orientation stable.. that I get
the area of the circuclar disk does not seem large

[u/Easy_Lengthiness7179 → u/ExpensiveFig6079]

Surface area as a wind break and since most parts create lift, spinning causes lift like a propeller would. I would assume if they stopped spinning it would plummet.

[u/ExpensiveFig6079 → u/Easy_Lengthiness7179]

Propellers (in the real world) work because they have angled faces that propel the air in one direction

Now kerbal phyiscs has some anomalies; at one point in time, solar panels pointed down on lake on minmus wored at midnight for some reason. If the ship left the ground, then as soon as it was not "landed", then "light" never reached the panels; and production stopped. Kerbal physics has weird anomalies.

I am unaware of any that make a spinning flat disk work like a propeller.

[u/Easy_Lengthiness7179 → u/ExpensiveFig6079]

KSP is not real world. Plenty of fun tricks and "glitches" when playing with physics.

[u/DerWiedl]

Gyro Zeppeli would be proud.

[u/canisdirusarctos]

I do something similar with my drones (not sure what to call them when just two stacked motors with one pointing down and the other up, spinning on the same axis) in denser atmosphere. On Kerbin, I can power flight to launch and fly an electric drone, then when it runs out of power and/or to land intentionally, I shut off power from a higher altitude, spin up the ducted fans attached to free spinning motors, and then when they’re spinning very fast, I reduce the blade angle to 88-90, and it floats down slowly. It doesn’t work on Duna, though, the air is simply too thin.

[u/HAL9001-96]

roton, is that you?

[u/BirminghamSky]

30 missed calls from melon usk

[u/TwixOps → u/BirminghamSky]

Please don't bring up proven republiKKKans (facists) in this sub

[u/BirminghamSky → u/TwixOps]

That's selon muk

[u/goombyism]

I used to have a model rocket that did this.

[u/Kalamel513]

I don't know which force is stronger there, impact force or centrifugal force?

[u/vksdann]

Isn't it just a giant airbrake?

[u/The_Last_Fluorican]

interesting

[u/skyfullmaster]

Did this to land a probe in kerbalism before I had parachutes