So I just had a quick look at the Micro Station video - and saw that in fact I DID de-orbit the booster, and it had enough fuel to do so. So I’m not sure how or why it mysteriously reappeared in LKO, probably something to do with an old save being loaded or something like that? Anyway, it did end up giving me a good excuse to make this SSTO, and I ended up having fun with this mission :)
@@chisbraon9627 idk, I mean playing KSP is part of how I keep a roof over my head, so I can't really compare it to a different game that I play in my spare time. I still enjoy it though, I like to think that I'd probably still play it if I wasn't a ksp TH-camr
Matt: *casually landing on mars whenever he wants, building space stations, doing aerobatic manouvers in space* Me: *screaming at the screen as i crash and explode into the muns surface for the 78th time within this hour*
Since Matt talked about uselessness of space stations it reminded me that a few weeks ago I built a dual gravity ring massive Moho station and my friend was like why did you spend 4 hours on that and I just said it looks pretty nifty
This has reminded me of an amazing show about space called Planetes. It is set in the year 2075 when trips to moon are on regular basis and debris became a real problem. The main protagonists are employees of debris section at a space station whose job is to collect space debris. The show is really well made and scientificly accurate. It explores human relation to space and to each other and humans living and working in space. Absolutely amazing show, I recommend it to everyone interested in space. It is on Netflix, as well on other sites.
I'd recommend placing a stack decouperer on the docking port, with a small nose cone. Then you can drop it before you reach orbit, and the will burn up.
Make a large space station with lots of docking ports, which you can then dock ships to and refuel before going to wherever you need to go. Make a large rocket fuel tank on it and you can send refueling ships to refill the tank. You could make this orbit kerbin or the mun either would be useful for interplanetary missions. Consider this idea anyway :)
A nuclear engine that heats up the propellant via heat exchangers shouldn’t pollute anything, but heating the propellant by directly letting it touch the reactor (more lightweight and efficient) directly could lead to some neutron activation..
It occurs to me that it could be an interesting idea to put a small unmanned space vehicle either in orbit or attached to a space station, designed to fly around and push stuff out of space. Just a small thruster, maybe an ion thruster? Some solar panels, a probe core, a docking claw and a bit of thruster fuel. Whenever something gets stuck in orbit, send out this little thing to give it a push and done. Keeping space clean! No need for a dedicated mission to launch an SSTO from the ground every time.
Once I was bored on my sandbox save and I decided to make a debris-removal rocket. I got a claw and a nucelar engine and started docking to stuff and de-orbiting it. After 4th debris I got bored, landed the thing on Kerbin, got the laser from BDArmory and started burning down stuff. Ngl, this was hella fun!
I'm planning a whole line of SSTO's for my KSP. - one of the roles of the SSTO department will be crew transfers... once the habitats or crafts are in orbit, ferry the kerbals to the crafts in orbit. - I also foresee creating an orbital ship yard, so a few SSTO would be needed to bring raw materials to orbit as well - finally i plan on creating an orbital junk yard, rather than de-orbit anything, I'll store it all in a orbital junk pile, so if i ever need parts out in space, i can grab them from the junk yard if they exist there, instead of pulling them back up into orbit again... rather refit and refuel and recycle... =D they could always turn into deep space probes...
For the junior docking port on the front you maybe could of just added a nosecose on the end of the docking port and just use the decouple feature on the nosecone to jettison the nosecone when in space :)
About the lab, i used it in my first and second plays, because i couldnt get to duna after going to minmus (and i didnt had enough funds to go anywhere but LKO), and its the only time i used its function
Matt, I have a challenge for you: You should see if you can get an asteroid in orbit around another asteroid while it orbits something else (yes you can do the sun) Edit: I recommend using the kerbin-asteroid bug where you time warp and they glitch into kerbin orbit then once there are 2 it is just getting a really big craft in orbit around the mun or something similar
I've suggested a very similar thing. Not exactly the same, but a while ago I suggested getting an asteroid into orbit around the Mun, just for the satisfaction of giving a moon it's own moon.
Great SSTO video. I haven't tried to build an SSTO for ages and your rather cute yet useful spacecraft has given me some inspiration. Southern Comfort is not fit for human consumption. It might make a good antiseptic, but only because no self respecting bug would be caught dead in it. May I recommend you try Glen Moray scotch whisky. It's quite a smooth scotch and is one of my favourites.
I once launched a vehicle with a basket-shaped bunch of girders to push debris out of orbit... Putting docking ports on the debris is probably good practice.
Southern comfort is great! So much so that I went from a sip, to 'O shit that's good i'll have another,' to flat-out drunk. And then it didn't taste so good anymore. But still, worth it.
I felt that way about a Thatcher's cider, recently. I did like it to begin with but less so as I continued drinking it. It was still good enough for me to finish, though.
You know, I think it's more fun watching the easy missions where everything goes right... ish! There's just less stress all around, and no plot hole of keeping Kerbals in space for 30 years for all the gravity assists. But that's got me thinking of high-power ships for fast transfers, and those would be their own kind of trouble. I'm doing the sensible thing with fuel depots supplied from Minmus, but it's honestly a bit of a pain keeping the depots supplied. For the Jool system, I'm sending mining landers so big, they double as fuel tankers in the hope I won't have to be quite so organized. And I bought Making History today, largely (pun intended) so I can make bigger fuel depots without raising the part count too high. Oh by the way, Southern Comfort is, on paper, something I'd expect to like, but I had some once and never touched the stuff again. There's something wrong with that liquor.
I personally don't pay attention to it, orbits free of garbage and empty rocket stage and rocket booster, because I build each stage so that when they are empty they act as relays. So they still have a functon than just hanging around dead
Matt: furious at the thought of even a single piece of debris in kerbin orbit, goes through great lengths to bring it back to the ground me: casually leaves dozens of bits strewn across the entire kerbol system, no world is safe from my relentless littering, not even interstellar space
For the docking port: Just put an nosecone on top of the docking port, you can jettison when you need the docking ports, its only a one way solution though..
Wow Matt, your review of Southern Comfort could not have been any more spot on in my humble opinion. The simple fact that it has the name whiskey on the bottle is an insult to ALL whiskeys or whiskies. I wholeheartedly support the rating of 1, simply because it does in fact contain alcohol.
Finally just finished my mun and back mission. Under 30 parts, basic tech tree, basic launch pad. And gathered the appropriate science for the basic stages of the game. Just gather the data from the Science Jr. and take it into the command pod. THIS WAS DIFFICULT TO DO IN UNDER 30 PARTS! I haven't seen any videos on youtube of anyone doing it yet... It's very tight on fuel... no landing legs
When that Blunderbird’s intro came on and the entire Southern Comfort thing happened, I laughed so fucking hard I woke my wife up twice. Love you Matt lol❤️
Last update on his twitter was that he got quarantined due to a confirmed patient having been in a Eye Infirmary he'd been to. All of his tweets were deleted a few hours later. Scary.
Always deorbit or crash your spent boosters. Even if you fling them into Kerbin's atmosphere to burn up, or make a Curiosity rover style landing (where the drone thing landed the rover then crashed). It just keeps the universe clean. Having dozens of random spent boosters flying around in deep space is a danger to operational spacecraft as they can crash and blow up. Even if it's a satellite that's ran out of power. It's best to deorbit it, rather than leaving it there to somehow fly faster than escape velocity and leave orbit or or something.
![This SSTO can carry over 75 tonnes [2+ orange tanks] to orbit! KSP](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uiq529q_zDE/mqdefault.jpg)
So I just had a quick look at the Micro Station video - and saw that in fact I DID de-orbit the booster, and it had enough fuel to do so. So I’m not sure how or why it mysteriously reappeared in LKO, probably something to do with an old save being loaded or something like that? Anyway, it did end up giving me a good excuse to make this SSTO, and I ended up having fun with this mission :)
Matt Lowne your vids are awesome man
How DARE you leave debris in orbit
Matt Lowne the number of times I’ve accidentally reloaded the wrong save file and played for a while before realising is too damn high!
Do you ever get tired of ksp?
@@chisbraon9627 idk, I mean playing KSP is part of how I keep a roof over my head, so I can't really compare it to a different game that I play in my spare time. I still enjoy it though, I like to think that I'd probably still play it if I wasn't a ksp TH-camr
You know it’s serious when Matt swears
When? I'm lazy so cba to watch it all
@@tuxido4913 18:42
@@linecraftman3907 you regret to die ma man...
@@wildgames5217 16:24
probably because of coppa
Matt: plays Blunderbirds intro
Me: YESSSSSSSSSSSS
Matt: well actually no
😂 lol
10:40
Between the blunderbirds edit and the southern comfort review, this is the funniest video I think i've seen on this channel. love it
Ernesto M. Probably not low but for a Matt vid it is funny
He should have played the entire theme song!
2:37 Matt literally sums up every single video of his ever
in every video :~)
He's always in a rush as well, if you notice. He'll explain burning half before and half after a maneuver node in almost every video too.
And that's why Saturdays are my favorite days ❤️
My dog just died
@@NaraCG210 sorry to here that rip 🐶
@UnshippedFern Bro im sorry
@@NaraCG210 RIP 😢😢😢
UnshippedFern Yeah, they do that.
Matt: *casually landing on mars whenever he wants, building space stations, doing aerobatic manouvers in space*
Me: *screaming at the screen as i crash and explode into the muns surface for the 78th time within this hour*
Duna
Me: Crashing SSTO's into my satellites while i release them
that's more than a crash a minute god damn
78 mun collisions in an hour? Seems like your just practicing your trans-munar burns! Hopefully you can easily land on the mun now…
EXACTLY!!!!!!
Since Matt talked about uselessness of space stations it reminded me that a few weeks ago I built a dual gravity ring massive Moho station and my friend was like why did you spend 4 hours on that and I just said it looks pretty nifty
The Waht
when the blunderberds intro played i fell off my chair!!
15:03 Solar Eclipse, Cool!
I like how serious you get even due to a single piece of debris.
If you enjoy doing cleanup jobs, hit me up I'll give you my save lol
DerekSP I got around 1k debri, but they clear themself up during collisions ;)
Put things up in reverse orbit, make it like nerdcubed's insurance scam plot and make things smash into each other.
oh no
Looks at 100 pieces of debris in 1 month
@@David-vz4yk A
This has reminded me of an amazing show about space called Planetes. It is set in the year 2075 when trips to moon are on regular basis and debris became a real problem. The main protagonists are employees of debris section at a space station whose job is to collect space debris. The show is really well made and scientificly accurate. It explores human relation to space and to each other and humans living and working in space. Absolutely amazing show, I recommend it to everyone interested in space. It is on Netflix, as well on other sites.
Is it on Netflix? Are you sure?
Bad Beard Bill depends on your country
that's an anime
literally everyone: OMG DO MORE BLUNDERBIRDS!!!!!
matt: best i can do is ssto housekeeper
I was watching this video when my grandma walked in and asked “is this that Minecraft game?”
XD UR POOR GRANDMAW
Lol
Lol
Its the new minecraft update
Brock Burton yes they added s p a c e
I'd recommend placing a stack decouperer on the docking port, with a small nose cone. Then you can drop it before you reach orbit, and the will burn up.
I think my favourite part of your work is the style and the fact that you don't abuse part clipping. Keep up the good work.
If you make another mk1 ssto you should use the Soviet airlock as an extender with a docking prot on the end, I think it would look cool at least
I loved today’s whisky review
Yeah. Like who watched this for KSP anymore?
Nethascot X betas do
One of my favorite parts of these videos is the commentary, there are very few channels that do that, and it adds to the greatnesses.
For boosters without a docking port you should add a Canada arm esc robot arm to the ssto to throw them into the atmosphere
Last time I was this early, Dreams wasn’t copyrighted. Great vid Matt :)
Kitus Chownus subtle reference
Rip desincs old videos
Make a large space station with lots of docking ports, which you can then dock ships to and refuel before going to wherever you need to go. Make a large rocket fuel tank on it and you can send refueling ships to refill the tank. You could make this orbit kerbin or the mun either would be useful for interplanetary missions. Consider this idea anyway :)
Matt: "...because the SSTO is more environment-friendly"
Also Matt: **loads some megatons of fossile fuel**
Also, Also Matt: *ignites nuclear engine in atmosphere*
Nuclear engines don't necessarily pollute, with many they simply heat up a fluid around the reactor and expel it out the nozzle.
@@MCWaffles2003-1 If the fuel decays into something harmless, which none of our current nuclear fuels do...
Throw it into space then while you're out there, its radioactive out there anyways
A nuclear engine that heats up the propellant via heat exchangers shouldn’t pollute anything, but heating the propellant by directly letting it touch the reactor (more lightweight and efficient) directly could lead to some neutron activation..
It occurs to me that it could be an interesting idea to put a small unmanned space vehicle either in orbit or attached to a space station, designed to fly around and push stuff out of space.
Just a small thruster, maybe an ion thruster? Some solar panels, a probe core, a docking claw and a bit of thruster fuel.
Whenever something gets stuck in orbit, send out this little thing to give it a push and done. Keeping space clean! No need for a dedicated mission to launch an SSTO from the ground every time.
4:25 things like that are 95% of the reason I use mods. Absolutely love finding little utility type things like that.
If memory serves me correctly, a standard docking port can dock to a junior docking port. So you could have had a shielded docking port.
2:02
Annnnnd you're demonetized.
Once I was bored on my sandbox save and I decided to make a debris-removal rocket. I got a claw and a nucelar engine and started docking to stuff and de-orbiting it. After 4th debris I got bored, landed the thing on Kerbin, got the laser from BDArmory and started burning down stuff. Ngl, this was hella fun!
You could do an episode where you clean after Bradley XD
Jesus that would take forever.
2 days later he makes a 100 stage to orbit
Bradley?
@@Xibalba_FGC Bradley Whistance
@@Xibalba_FGC Whistance
CountArtha I knew it. Thanks
I'm planning a whole line of SSTO's for my KSP.
- one of the roles of the SSTO department will be crew transfers... once the habitats or crafts are in orbit, ferry the kerbals to the crafts in orbit.
- I also foresee creating an orbital ship yard, so a few SSTO would be needed to bring raw materials to orbit as well
- finally i plan on creating an orbital junk yard, rather than de-orbit anything, I'll store it all in a orbital junk pile, so if i ever need parts out in space, i can grab them from the junk yard if they exist there, instead of pulling them back up into orbit again... rather refit and refuel and recycle... =D they could always turn into deep space probes...
also.. southern comfort was my first whiskey experience... good memories there, but I prefer a Guinness to anything else... =D
It's nice to see a KSP channel that isnt dead.
For the junior docking port on the front you maybe could of just added a nosecose on the end of the docking port and just use the decouple feature on the nosecone to jettison the nosecone when in space :)
About the lab, i used it in my first and second plays, because i couldnt get to duna after going to minmus (and i didnt had enough funds to go anywhere but LKO), and its the only time i used its function
Southern comfort and tonic is great on hot summer days. It's a liqueur type spirit, not really meant to drink straight...
No corona virus cases on the smol space station Matt
ITS SATURDAY MY DUDES
Ooohhhaaaaahhhhh.
Matt, I have a challenge for you: You should see if you can get an asteroid in orbit around another asteroid while it orbits something else (yes you can do the sun)
Edit: I recommend using the kerbin-asteroid bug where you time warp and they glitch into kerbin orbit then once there are 2 it is just getting a really big craft in orbit around the mun or something similar
I've suggested a very similar thing. Not exactly the same, but a while ago I suggested getting an asteroid into orbit around the Mun, just for the satisfaction of giving a moon it's own moon.
@@camerondon3712 Nice but did you know irl the moon has its own moon
Great SSTO video. I haven't tried to build an SSTO for ages and your rather cute yet useful spacecraft has given me some inspiration.
Southern Comfort is not fit for human consumption. It might make a good antiseptic, but only because no self respecting bug would be caught dead in it.
May I recommend you try Glen Moray scotch whisky. It's quite a smooth scotch and is one of my favourites.
I once launched a vehicle with a basket-shaped bunch of girders to push debris out of orbit...
Putting docking ports on the debris is probably good practice.
I actually like leaving debris in space. It is beautiful.
How
hey OP, let me be the first to say what the fuck
Oh boy am I excited for todays hwiskey review! It's also really nice that you a bit of show Kerbal Space Program footage, which is a game I play.
Southern comfort is great! So much so that I went from a sip, to 'O shit that's good i'll have another,' to flat-out drunk.
And then it didn't taste so good anymore. But still, worth it.
I felt that way about a Thatcher's cider, recently. I did like it to begin with but less so as I continued drinking it. It was still good enough for me to finish, though.
Haven't watched your videos in ages but I love this!
I was just thinking of creating a ship to clear debris. Debris gets soo annoying! I love your KSP videos, and I’m hyped for KSP 2.
1:17 Am i the only one who thinks that ssto looks a lot like the blackbird? Great video Matt C:
lol, today's whiskey review was hilarious.
Therapist: cursing Matt can’t hurt you he doesn’t exist. Cursing Matt: 16:25
NASA :38615 debrits in the orbit- Calm
Matt : 1 derbrit in the orbit - Panic
Debris are fun sometimes, imagine doing some eva stuff and sudenly you see fuel tank passing by at interplanetary speed
Speaking of easy missions, I would love to see some Blunderbirds in RO/RSS
SSTO TO PLUTO RESCUING 3948478585 KERBALS!
You know, I think it's more fun watching the easy missions where everything goes right... ish! There's just less stress all around, and no plot hole of keeping Kerbals in space for 30 years for all the gravity assists. But that's got me thinking of high-power ships for fast transfers, and those would be their own kind of trouble. I'm doing the sensible thing with fuel depots supplied from Minmus, but it's honestly a bit of a pain keeping the depots supplied. For the Jool system, I'm sending mining landers so big, they double as fuel tankers in the hope I won't have to be quite so organized. And I bought Making History today, largely (pun intended) so I can make bigger fuel depots without raising the part count too high. Oh by the way, Southern Comfort is, on paper, something I'd expect to like, but I had some once and never touched the stuff again. There's something wrong with that liquor.
The great series Life on Laythe, Destination Duna, Smol Station
Can't wait for KSP2
Make a science mode series that you have to have all your rockets recoverable, like Spacex.
16 minutes of wait before today's whiskey review was totally worth it!!
Haven’t had southern comfort since high school...35 years ago. It sucked then, so perhaps a bonus point for consistency.
You can put a cone on the docking port and decouple it before your circularization burn
Having a hard time docking? Use the SSRMS!
I bet in the future SpaceX or NASA will call you for rocket design
I love your videos because whenever I watch them I always play kerbal
I personally don't pay attention to it, orbits free of garbage and empty rocket stage and rocket booster, because I build each stage so that when they are empty they act as relays. So they still have a functon than just hanging around dead
Matt: furious at the thought of even a single piece of debris in kerbin orbit, goes through great lengths to bring it back to the ground
me: casually leaves dozens of bits strewn across the entire kerbol system, no world is safe from my relentless littering, not even interstellar space
For the docking port: Just put an nosecone on top of the docking port, you can jettison when you need the docking ports, its only a one way solution though..
the blunderbirds video out of nowhere was hilariouus. Nice one Matt!
It's 2:45 AM and Matt uploads. No sleep for us lads.
Wow Matt, your review of Southern Comfort could not have been any more spot on in my humble opinion. The simple fact that it has the name whiskey on the bottle is an insult to ALL whiskeys or whiskies. I wholeheartedly support the rating of 1, simply because it does in fact contain alcohol.
The SSTOs that need to go at 440: Artemis and Dragon from Green Harvest.
You know, you could have just attached a nosecone to the Jr. Docking port, the docking ports double as decouplers.
Yo matt you gotta rescue a warpship thats around a different STAR
what you could have done is use a semi extended piston and attach a nose cone so you can just retract and extend the nose cone
Your game looks amazing
5:50 just a timestamp for myself
Finally just finished my mun and back mission. Under 30 parts, basic tech tree, basic launch pad. And gathered the appropriate science for the basic stages of the game. Just gather the data from the Science Jr. and take it into the command pod. THIS WAS DIFFICULT TO DO IN UNDER 30 PARTS! I haven't seen any videos on youtube of anyone doing it yet... It's very tight on fuel... no landing legs
I can tell that rocket at 0:36 looks like the ares I but a mini version.
When that Blunderbird’s intro came on and the entire Southern Comfort thing happened, I laughed so fucking hard I woke my wife up twice. Love you Matt lol❤️
"Southern Comfort", one of those drinks that taste better comming up, than going down?
SoCo is vile. I agree with you, Matt and the swear was absolutely needed to convey just how horrid that stuff is.
The atmosphere cleans up debris.
thanks Matt for more advice on what whiskey to buy :)
1:08 look at that flag
it's pretty nice
👌
Yo, Matt be pumping out more videos than brain cells in my skull
southern comfort best whiskey 100% so good wow
would love to see some streams of you building or just an in depth build video, cause im still a bit of a noob
matt over here just chilling while i cant even pass the docking tutorial
I just had my first near miss with orbiting debris. Gotta get some more orbiting debris up there so next time I don't miss.
This reminds me of the sr-71 blackbird.
You should make a sr-71 blackbird.
They fly near the edge of space
bananna he made one
Some of my worst alcohol related memories are from waking up after a night of drinking southern comfort. So, thanks for that.
You could attach a small nosecone to the docking port and decouple it from there
Elon Musk making a mess in space again ^_^
Literally
Recovered fairings and boosters: Am I a joke to you?
To make a shielded docking port just use robotics and a nose cone
Your my fav Whiskey reviewer ;)
I went to Barbados and had some of the best Rum. Maybe you could do a review of some if you're feeling fancy
15:03 its a eclipse
You should use MKS and Ground Construction and colonize and make bases and make it a career that would be really fun to watch
I love Matt Lowne.
Make a full Vlog of your Whisky collection and take a shot from every bottle.
Never done before I swear!
we havent gotten a new ksp vid!
R.I.P Matt Lowne confirmed...
Last update on his twitter was that he got quarantined due to a confirmed patient having been in a Eye Infirmary he'd been to. All of his tweets were deleted a few hours later.
Scary.
New update: just checked his Discord and he has a update for us today. He was actually going through a personal issue right now, so no worries.
matt lowne. Cleaning up space debris since 2013
Always deorbit or crash your spent boosters. Even if you fling them into Kerbin's atmosphere to burn up, or make a Curiosity rover style landing (where the drone thing landed the rover then crashed). It just keeps the universe clean. Having dozens of random spent boosters flying around in deep space is a danger to operational spacecraft as they can crash and blow up. Even if it's a satellite that's ran out of power. It's best to deorbit it, rather than leaving it there to somehow fly faster than escape velocity and leave orbit or or something.
nice Ive been waiting for another KSP vid
thank you for another fine whiskey review, and the game stuff was pretty neat as well i guess