Kerbal Space Program Breaking Ground Expansion

Kerbal Space Program: Breaking Ground Expansion adds scientific experiments, surface features and robotic parts to Kerbal Space Program. It expands what you can do after reaching celestial bodies, giving you new ways to collect scientific data and tools for building and controlling spacecraft and rovers.

Conduct experiments

You can carry science equipment in a storage container on your craft, then deploy it after reaching a destination. The equipment must remain in place for a period of time to collect data and relay it back to Kerbin. The available equipment includes:

• Central station: part of the deployed science setup.
• Booster antenna: relays collected data.
• Solar panel: part of the deployed science equipment.
• Weather station: collects scientific data.
• Active seismometer: gathers seismic data when you deliberately crash objects into a celestial body.
• RTG: part of the deployed science equipment.
• Goo observation: collects scientific data.
• Ion detector: collects scientific data.

Explore surface features

Meteors, craters, rock outcroppings, cryovolcanoes and other features are scattered across the solar system. Kerbals can carry smaller features back to KSC, while larger ones require Kerbals to travel in rovers or unmanned rovers. A robotic rover arm lets you scan larger features and collect scientific data.

Build with robotics

Robotic parts come in various sizes: hinges, pistons, rotors and rotational servos. They operate under realistic physics, including forces and torque, electricity consumption and motor mass. A robotics controller system lets you coordinate the behavior of the different parts on your craft.

A new suit

The expansion adds a futuristic-looking suit tied to its science focus.