satellite pick-up challenge

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A small challenge based on the Corona spy satellite recovering concept
if you stay in 2.5km your fine, don't go further out than that, it will be low enough for you to land your won craft without it unloading

if you stay in 2.5km your fine, don't go further out than that, it will be low enough for you to land your won craft without it unloading

Description

Basically, when the Americans wanted to be secretive against everyone, they designed a way to recover Corona Imaging satellites before they landed, and this was to grab them with a plane on their final decent by their parachute...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)

in KSP however parachutes only exist as visual elements and flying a plane into anything never ends well, so how about VTOL?

so yeah I made a challenge that is basically

1.dock to the satellite on its chutes before it falls to the ground("and gets taken by the enemy")

2.land on VAB

simples :D

Notes-

*this was a real idea, check out Corona Satellite - http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)

*the instructions are in the CRAFTS DESCRIPTION, LOOK THERE...

*the satellite and pick-up craft start as one craft because you cant switch vehicles in atmosphere

*this challenge is really hard, it might be impossible, I never beat it...

*the Whoever at the CIA/NASA came up with the idea first so I cant be stealing credit from anyone here...

***FEEL FREE TO CREATE YOUR OWN VERSION OF THE SAME CONCEPT TO MAKE IT EASIER AND LOOK NICE.

 

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