Japan’s ‘moon sniper’ probe made incredibly accurate landing, but is now upside down

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Having played rp-1 and had multiple landers slam into the moon at 2 km/s due to random engine failures, having the probe simply be upside down is quite fortunate.

Now I want to play RP-1 again. Never did manage to get to a manned mars mission that survived.

Wait, what game is RP-1?

Mod for KSP.

All the fun of building KSP rockets, and all of the pain of real rocket engines, part masses, ullage, life support for crew, and reliability issues.

You do get to see the real solar system in RP1 too, so it’s a lot of fun. Just can be kind of painful some times.

Oh, that sounds fantastic, I'll have to look for it! Thanks!

If you’ve never modded KSP before, a word of warning: Use CKAN. It’s a mod manager for ksp.

You want RP1-express install.

RP1 is a big mod, it has a lot of dependencies, and installing everything manually will be very frustrating.

Thanks, that's a great bit of advice.

I might have to try this out too.