Mars Bases!

[Roger Jolly]

Meanwhile I’m landing my first ever craft on Mars to scout...

I am confused by the Olympus Mons elevation reading and have a problematic landing, attempting correct makes things worse...

Finally extricating myself I find I have a lingering port from the broken rocket, I release it and it fires off like a bullet and takes out the last chance of a return...Damn, stranded

Reaching the western rim of Oly Mons I use the summit to pop upright...

Mission accomplished, now send help

 

[Roger Jolly]

Damn, missed my target by a mile or 10...
Otherwise a miraculous landing,
Better haul ass somehow...

I mean really haul ass, the flat spot is waaay down there!

I can’t believe that worked, still haven’t tested the elevator, I’m tired and the modified unit is still in orbit

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Damn, missed my target by a mile or 10...
Otherwise a miraculous landing,
Better haul ass somehow... View attachment 22337
I mean really haul ass, the flat spot is waaay down there! View attachment 22338
I can’t believe that worked, still haven’t tested the elevator, I’m tired and the modified unit is still in orbit View attachment 22339

The base looks pretty good! If you want you can post your Saving (.qks file) and I can Rescue your Rover and Crew and send it back to you.

 

[Roger Jolly]

The base looks pretty good! If you want you can post your Saving (.qks file) and I can Rescue your Rover and Crew and send it back to you.

I’m on iOS phone so I’m just doomed, DOOMED!
But thanks anyway, he’ll just have to hold the hill till the fuel man shows up, maybe he can go test that lift while he’s waiting

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

I’m on iOS phone so I’m just doomed, DOOMED!
But thanks anyway, he’ll just have to hold the hill till the fuel man shows up, maybe he can go test that lift while he’s waiting

Ah, okay, no problem

 

[Roger Jolly]

Now that I think of it, guess I gotta design a super heavy fueling lander now...fun!

 

[Danny Batten]

Now that I think of it, guess I gotta design a super heavy fueling lander now...fun!

Oh I love em, they put two of my favourite things together. Super heavy and landers

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Okay, today I bring you: a single launch Mars Base of 1000 tons:

This is Actually the first time the Empress Cobra VI does the role for what it was created: single-launch Interplanetary Colonies. Taking This thing into orbit is easy If you don't count the lag...

Mars Aerobrake:

And Landing! :

Okay, we're on the ground. Time to test the Rover:

It works! Now to send the crew

And there we are. A fully functional manned base on another planet

 

[Altaïr]

Very impressive!
Did you submit that one to the contest?

 

[Danny Batten]

Okay, today I bring you: a single launch Mars Base of 1000 tons: View attachment 22614
This is Actually the first time the Empress Cobra VI does the role for what it was created: single-launch Interplanetary Colonies. Taking This thing into orbit is easy If you don't count the lag... View attachment 22615
Mars Aerobrake: View attachment 22616
And Landing! : View attachment 22617
Okay, we're on the ground. Time to test the Rover: View attachment 22618 View attachment 22619 View attachment 22620 View attachment 22621
It works! Now to send the crew View attachment 22622 View attachment 22623 View attachment 22624 View attachment 22625
And there we are. A fully functional manned base on another planet

To one member with a fucking gigantic rocket to another, I approve

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Very impressive!
Did you submit that one to the contest?

No, unfortunately, I built that One yesterday.

To one member with a fucking gigantic rocket to another, I approve

Thanks!

 

[Danny Batten]

No, unfortunately, I built that One yesterday.

Thanks!

It’s rather impressive, what’s the max capacity to LEO?

 

[Roger Jolly]

That is one hot rover

 

[Roger Jolly]

Got an early start while waiting for coffee water to boil...

So my test of a super heavy fuel lander didn’t go so well, watch those tank levels!

Still refusing to save while waiting for coffee I attempted to swap in my modified fuel port elevator and took out some solar cells I forgot to let down, crashed in frustration and finished making coffee...

Back to the board I laboriously redesigned a failing modification before discovering an easy simplification...

Next gave into the fuel cheat, because that’s what Trump would do,
I wanna see Fire!, defund the CDC, we won’t need the CDC if we colonize Mars, I’m a genie, it’s just plain math, we’ll save billions spending trillions, it’s big money, I know big money, this works!

Nice

Nicer...
Now test the elevator, first down..,

Damn you gravity!

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

It’s rather impressive, what’s the max capacity to LEO?

2000 tons

 

[Roger Jolly]

Over a month quiet here

Lemme start with my “Fuelevator” because it has a great name though it got shelved as quick as it landed...
Still, it’s an interesting sort of improvement over the last elevating fuel pump


It goes up and down nice, but can break if you get sloppy
Refuels in the up position and lowered onto a rocket top or adjusts to a side port
Course the problem is the whole station has to move to get over a rocket

The top legs connect the nose to the station fuel, which leaves a little drop over the second legs for disconnecting, then it lowers one pair of legs at a time to desired height

 

[Roger Jolly]

Wanted to find a better place for a mars base than Mt Oly which is all slope,
Found this long forgotten rover in orbit be just fine to scout that plateau clockwise from Oly

Oh no!...Burn Hard!
Ok then

Legs were supposed to guide for pickup, but flying right works better

Think I topped out over 17m/s in this thing, but

Just broke the legs, so solar panels:

Hazza and onward...

 

[Roger Jolly]

So anyway, that spot about 30deg clockwise from Oly is a nice flat plateau...
I stopped about a third of the way traveling CW and called it good

This is mars version of my “silly moon base” fueling machine, having a pair of broadswords rather than 4 crickets is a bit weak gravity wise but works fine

 

[Roger Jolly]

And so my slightly modified Hab base from the moon, with a bit taller radio tower and a tractor pad that wasn’t shortened by random debris accident in orbit

It kinda drifted in the hole and went crooked, left the large dish brace in place, gotta think this through

 

[Roger Jolly]

Now to design a fabulously large mining platform...
But first I took a stab at a fuel lander

The second test launch came down and landed miraculously, broke the legs dropping the boosters but whatever
First on Mars went totally bad though I dropped the boosters nice side to side before having technical difficulty

But the, hell ya, failed to drop the boosters but perfectly lucky otherwise...

Landing this thing should be a contest

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Hey Blazer, can you pm or email me the code for mars day-night cycle? And does it work for earth as well?

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Hey Blazer, can you pm or email me the code for mars day-night cycle? And does it work for earth as well?

You have to make a version for Earth, in the case of Mars, I've made a thread about it. There's also one for Venus.
Here's the link:
https://jmnet.one/sfs/forum/index.php?threads/day-night-cycle-for-venus-and-mars.2821/

 

[The Dark in the Light]

OK thanks

 

[Rothschildyrn]

Okay, I finally made some time to work on some new bases (I demolished The older ones So Its a fresh start). The first one is on Mars, the second one on Phobos. I plan to build another one on Deimos and One or two more on Mars itself. A little about each base:

Mars - Base 01: Curiosity View attachment 21444
As you can see it has a Rover, an HQ with an antenna, two greenhouses on top of Crew habitations, and a Lab with Solar Panels on top of a third habitation.
To the right is the escape craft.

This base it is located on the top of Olympus Mt. so Its the highest surface base on the Solar system.

Phobos - Base 02: Spirit
View attachment 21446
This base was originally designed to be mobile. While trying to design a rolling Rover for Phobos, I thought that If I made it too heavy, under the ultralow gravity, it will act as a light Vehicle on normal gravity... That didn't work.

So I decided to leave it there as a surface base. On the interstages on the central piece there are drones that I can use to scout Phobos: View attachment 21447

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[Axiom]

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Please read the dates for the love of god, that was 4 and a half years ago.