Tutorial: Mars One
Mars One was a planned mission to Mars to set up a permament colony there consisting of people travelling on a one way trip. It was incredibly ambitious and gathered public interested until the company went bankrupt in 2019 once it turned out to be a scam. But you can recreate it in KSP.
Contents
Mars One rover
The Mars One rover would've been designed to move the modules together and find a good place to settle.
Ship Design
- 1x Probodobodyne RoveMate
- 2x M-1x1 Structural Panel
- 3x Cubic Octagonal Strut (put at a 45° angle at the front of the rover)
- 1x 2HOT Thermometer
- 1x Z-100 Rechargeable Battery Pack
- 1x Communotron 88-88
- 1x Sensor Array Computing Nose Cone
- 4x TR-2L Ruggedized Vehicular Wheel
- 1x Probodobodyne OKTO2 (Put it on the bottom)
Life Support and Crew Habitat
We currently have no life support units or inflatable habitats.
Mars Transit Vehicle
The mars transit Vehicle would've sent the people to mars in 2026 getting there in 2027.
Ship Design
Part One
- 1x Mk3 Cockpit (upside down)
- 1x Mk1 Lander Can
- 6x Rockomax Mark 55 Radial Mount Liquid Engine (put three pairs symetrically)
- 1x Clamp-O-Tron Docking Port
Part Two
- 1x RC-001S Remote Guidance Unit
- 1x Clamp-O-Tron Docking Port
- 1x Structural Fuselage
- 1x TVR-200 Stack Bi-Coupler
- 2x FL-T200 Fuel Tank
- 2x Toroidal Aerospike Rocket
First you launch part one into orbit then you launch part two into orbit and disconnect the RC-001S Remote Guidance Unit and connect part one with part two.
Falcon Heavy - Launcher
The Falcon Heavy is one of the most powerful rocket currently in use, only just sitting behind the Space Launch System and Starship. It is one of the most powerful after the Saturn V and N1. Theoretically also the Ares V would've been more powerful but was cancelled and thus never flew It is operated by SpaceX who are currently contracted by NASA to resupply and send crew the ISS with the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Ship Design
- 1x Payload in fairings
- 1x TR-38-D
- 1x Z-4K Rechargeable Battery Bank
- 1x Advanced S.A.S Module, Large
- 1x Kerbodyne ADTP-2-3
- 1x Kerbodyne S3-7200 Tank
- 1x Cubic Octagonal Strut
- 8x Cubic Octagonal Strut
- 1x TR-38-D
- 2x Kerbodyne S3-14400 Tank (One on top of the other)
- 1x Cubic Octagonal Strut
- 8x Cubic Octagonal Strut
- 4x Hydraulic Detachment Manifold (Two for each booster)
- 4x Kerbodyne S3-14400 Tank (Two on each side)
- 2x Cubic Octagonal Strut (One for each booster rocket)
- 16x Cubic Octagonal Strut (Eight on each booster rocket)
- 16x LV-T45 Liquid Fuel Engine (One for each Cubic Octagonal Strut)
- 6x LT-2 Landing Strut (Three on each booster)
- 2x Mk16-XL Parachute (One on top of each booster)
- 2x FTX-2 External Fuel Duct (One from each side mounted fuel tank leading to the core tank)
