yagni01
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You have to strap your surface lander somewhere
A bay is plausible as a way to protect them from MMD and such.
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A bay is plausible as a way to protect them from MMD and such.
jedidia
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just that a craft with the flexibility of the XR2 doesn't need a surface lander... you could hardly imagine a better one than the ship itself. 
Coolhand
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The XR7 will probably be another spaceplane, check out my Waverider thread for more details.
Coolhand
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Ravenstar has a lot more payload bay volume than the DGIV.
Coolhand
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yeah it should fit just fine. just out of interest, how do you intend to get it out of the bay when the craft is landed?
eveningsky339
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I personally would be interested in a catapult method.
"Okay Houston, we're ready to launch the rover... and there it goes! It's falling... falling... oh crap."
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As Steve said, the bay is larger than the DGIV's. Dimensions are 5.02 m long X 3.45 m wide X 1.56 m high. Payload bay volume is 27.0 cubic meters. Also, the bay will be divided into three slots, each of which may hold a different (or the same) payload. In addition, depending on its size a payload module may occupy any number of slots, just like payload in the XR5.
Slot #1 (just aft of the cabin) is larger than the other two slots and is usually occupied by the CHM (Crew Habitat Module). It is 2.11 meters long. Slots #2 and #3 are equal in size: each is 1.46 meters long.
Regarding how to deploy the rover, it can be deployed like any other payload: while landed you can load/unload payload from the bay using the same payload controls as the XR5's; i.e., it will be deployed to the ground right beside the ship when it is unloaded. Just think of it as being loaded/unloaded by a not-yet-modeled automated payload bay arm.
eveningsky339
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I mean that I have a strong desire for alternate methods of payload deployment. Take the steam cannon, for example... Why simply drop a payload when you can launch it into a sub-orbital trajectory?
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ok thanks
Most likely exactly as hard as for XR5 payloads. You just add a few lines to your ship config, tweak a few placement variables and your are ready to go.
So I'd say: most easy
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woo482 said:ok thanks
Most likely exactly as hard as for XR5 payloads. You just add a few lines to your ship config, tweak a few placement variables and your are ready to go.
So I'd say: most easy
That is exactly correct. TS, you get a cookie!
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Yes; as detailed in the XR5's flight manual, the XR5 (and all future XR vessels with a bay as well) can carry any payload that fits in the bay. All you have to do is add a few additional lines to the payload vessel's config file. For details, take a look at the C:\Orbiter\Config\Vessels\XRPayloadTest.cfg file.
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Something else I should mention regarding the payload bay: the figures I quoted earlier are dimensions at the outer edge of each bay slot (1.652 meters high). The payload slots slope up to a height of 2.41 meters (slot 1) or 2.02 meters (slots 2 and 3) in the center, so the total payload bay volume is substantially larger than I initially quoted.
EDIT: total payload bay volume is approximately 33 cubic meters.
EDIT: total payload bay volume is approximately 33 cubic meters.
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