First Successful SRV Fleet Carrier Landing (SRV planet to carrier how-to guide included!)

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
InfernalMousse said:
I think we need another post: First SRV to land on an asteroid... same team performed this stunt, which was actually more difficult than getting the SRV to a carrier...

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are SRVs bound by the exclusion zones rules as ships around planets?...

or.... is there an opportunity for first SRV on earth here and no-ones had the patience to test it?

or failing that can you get a SRV beyond the permit lock of the earths moon for example, someone who has more time needs to test this, and search for RAXXLA and Small Seismic Charge outlets while they're at it.
 

InfernalMousse

InfernalMousse
Kenneth McGrew said:
are SRVs bound by the exclusion zones rules as ships around planets?...

or.... is there an opportunity for first SRV on earth here and no-ones had the patience to test it?

or failing that can you get a SRV beyond the permit lock of the earths moon for example, someone who has more time needs to test this, and search for RAXXLA and Small Seismic Charge outlets while they're at it.
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I really can't imagine how much time that would take lol. The SRV to carrier transfer could probably be done in about 4 hours if everyone knows what they are doing (we did not when we started), while the SRV to asteroid transfer took us over 8 hours. Some less stable individuals in our expedition have been suggesting SRV to gas giant, which is seriously even more pointless and time consuming than what we have already done. The big issue is the amount of time this lunacy would take. Remember you need to start the SRV deployment on a landable body. There are none within non-supercruise range of earth's moon. If we were to find a low gravity planet with an atmosphere which was ultra close to a landable moon, this might be an interesting experiment, however. We might be able to 'land' before odyssey.
 

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
InfernalMousse said:
I really can't imagine how much time that would take lol. The SRV to carrier transfer could probably be done in about 4 hours if everyone knows what they are doing (we did not when we started), while the SRV to asteroid transfer took us over 8 hours. Some less stable individuals in our expedition have been suggesting SRV to gas giant, which is seriously even more pointless and time consuming than what we have already done. The big issue is the amount of time this lunacy would take. Remember you need to start the SRV deployment on a landable body. There are none within non-supercruise range of earth's moon. If we were to find a low gravity planet with an atmosphere which was ultra close to a landable moon, this might be an interesting experiment, however. We might be able to 'land' before odyssey.
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Weeks... lol .....yeah this is why its not been tried, but i would hazzard a guess you could actually drive on the moon if you were insane enough to "fly" a SRV there ;)

there maybe another permit locked moon somewhere that's a better candidate to avoid the long distance so you can SRV hop from a landable, i shall go searching and see if this lunacy is plausible and concoct a plan with the spare Xbox and see if this truly is a "hold my beer" moment.

"There are none within non-supercruise range of earth's moon." everything is in range it just takes time lol (and a lot of refuels!)
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
InfernalMousse said:
Fair enough I guess. Max speed we were able to reach boosting the SRV was about 160m/s, or about 600 km/hr. The nearest landable body to the moon I believe is Mercury. Minimum distance is (according to google) 222 million km. Using these numbers, this would take 370,000 hours, or 15,400 days, or around 42 years? So probably the moon is out, but maybe Triton would be an interesting experiment? :p
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So you gotta do it then... The answer is staring you in the face 😵

Back on topic... It is amazing reading this thread, keep it going, it is amazing! (y)
 

InfernalMousse

InfernalMousse
Kenneth McGrew said:
Weeks... lol .....yeah this is why its not been tried, but i would hazzard a guess you could actually drive on the moon if you were insane enough to "fly" a SRV there ;)

there maybe another permit locked moon somewhere that's a better candidate to avoid the long distance so you can SRV hop from a landable, i shall go searching and see if this lunacy is plausible and concoct a plan with the spare Xbox and see if this truly is a "hold my beer" moment.

"There are none within non-supercruise range of earth's moon." everything is in range it just takes time lol (and a lot of refuels!)
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Fair enough I guess. Max speed we were able to reach boosting the SRV was about 160m/s, or about 600 km/hr. The nearest landable body to the moon I believe is Mercury. Minimum distance is (according to google) 222 million km. Using these numbers, this would take 370,000 hours, or 15,400 days, or around 42 years? So probably the moon is out, but maybe Triton would be an interesting experiment? :p
 

InfernalMousse

InfernalMousse
Kenneth McGrew said:
there maybe another permit locked moon somewhere that's a better candidate to avoid the long distance so you can SRV hop from a landable, i shall go searching and see if this lunacy is plausible and concoct a plan with the spare Xbox and see if this truly is a "hold my beer" moment.
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If you can find one, the Infernal Expedition Division of Ultimate Mind Blowing Attempts in Space with SRVs is ready to spring into action! (credit to CMDR Steam Vision for the division name)
 

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
Alec Turner said:
I'm assuming that the ability to "request docking access" mentioned in the OP is something of an unintended (by Frontier) anomaly but that it wasn't actually possible to "board" the fleet carrier in any meaningful way. Indeed, someone here mentioned timing it so a landing platform was down as you arrived so the SRV could drift inside but to the best of my knowledge (I've tried at surface bases) there's an invisible barrier which prevents an SRV from actually getting inside the docking bay.
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1. Invisible barrier? Is there one for a non docking ship as well? I had this plan to buy an Eagle and fly into the large landing bay when it is retracting down with a Vette or Anaconda (player ship ideally) and surprise muddafker!

2. Guess we not going to see an SRV at Hutton soon?
 

InfernalMousse

InfernalMousse
Yingnei Gasua said:
1. Invisible barrier? Is there one for a non docking ship as well? I had this plan to buy an Eagle and fly into the large landing bay when it is retracting down with a Vette or Anaconda (player ship ideally) and surprise muddafker!
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We've tried this as well on the fleet carrier. It does not work (for ships at least). There is an invisible barrier which prevents any other ship from entering. Now, this may not be the case for SRVs, so who knows. :D
 
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