Kerbal Space Program - Interstellar Quest - Episode 68 - Magnetosphere Mapping
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- The Jool explorer continues its dance around the moons of the Joolian system, swinging by Tylo at less than 5km above its surface. Back at kerbin the antimatter harvesting program uses an old spacecraft to optimize its yields, and a new fusion powered spaceplane makes its first flight.
Maybe 'Perfectly Effective Nuclear Instalment of Zardos', though I wouldn't advise acronyming it to P.E.N.I.Z
Or 'TINAZ Is Not Another Zardos'
"Look at the surface zipping by!"
Well, I'm sitting here squeaking along with 240p quality internet, so all I see is what appears to be a brown blur so... yay, zipping by!
Christian Buchmann I remember those days! :-( I feel for ya brother!
We "soon" get better internet. I do feel like I'm at the ass end of the world, yet really I'm 15 minutes away from a medium sized city -_-
You can still watch youtube videos that you Know will be good, like Scott Manley's in 1080P HD no problems even with super slow internet. You just have to disable that RETARDED "DASH PLAYBACK" that youtube started using.
That will let you just open the video, Hit pause and let it buffer the video to the end.
Heres a link that should help lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disabling-dash-playbac-1186454034
don't see your problem with 240, watchable to me
The new Fusion Plane looks *AMAZING!*
I think technically, since Tylo has no atmosphere, you were going infinitely faster than the speed of sound
That new bird looks magnificent. We shall see how it behaves. Though i think that no craft can show it's vice when handled by our great Scott.
***** No. If Jeb flies it even the best most well designed aircraft show EVERY vice. Jeb is the hero to bring the craziest things down and survive. Scott is the hero to bring it all down at once and keep it together lol.
Nope, Scott is brought in to bring down anything that is still in one piece. Jebediah is brought in to bring down anything that might already be in pieces. They have separate but awesome skills.
I know you haven't played Interstellar in awhile, I hope that's because you're waiting for it to work with 1.0.x but I found a fix for space plane instability. My solution which helps with re-entry especially was to put a single Delta Deluxe Winglett on the bottom of the ship, then offset so it won't scrape the ground during takeoff or landing. By doing this I found that when aerobraking the ship becomes extremely stable, I think the problem for me was that because of the angle of attack the wingless on the back were just not getting enough airflow to keep it stable, the fin on the bottom solves this and I didn't have any problems with it breaking off. I started using it on all my spaceplanes and it fixed some of the most unstable models for me.
The automatic captions always come up with hilarious stuff. IE:
Jewel = Jool
well = Vall
Curb in = Kerbin
will birth defect = Oberth Effect
crime overall can -ism = cryovolcanism
Among others.
Thanks for making my Monday so much better!
"in the next episode..." my most feared words
The antimatter collector is like "Can't touch this!", that's a MC Hammer induced confinement.
Scott,
as far as I can say from my spooky and very diverse experience in spaceplane modeling in KSP, in FAR bugs investigation and in learning history of aviation and aerospace industries,
you can build a litterally enourmous flying wing, which will be able to deliver a tank-weight packages to the orbit with minimal spending of fuel and thrust.
Or you can create a great biplane-triplane with classical composition and it will do the same.
I didn't try to combine flying wing and biplane or triplane compositions, but this might work well either.
Sorry for my awfully horrible english, I'm just a crazy russian self-educated space engineer.
Yep, and you can re-read this message with strong russian acсent.
I love Kerbal space program! Im thinking about doing a series on it too! Keep up the good work Bro!
I appreciate that Scott had to do actual experimental science to the magnetosphere here
Thank you for brightening up my day
Hey Scott, sticking with the theme, maybe you should call the new space plane Ramius.
Agreed
That would be a brilliant name, now I need to figure out how to make it s submarine.
You can do it Scott, I have faith in you.
YES! THATS THE PERFECT NAME!
I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the space sheep.
you had me at 'swinging by Tylo at less than 5km above its surface.'
That plane looks very much more awesomer than the other planes - and they were already great :D
Call me late or whatever, but I am in absolute awe at the size of that lad. Absolute unit
No matter what you name the new spaceplane it looks beautiful!
Albatros is the first thing to jump my mind when I see this white spaceplane with HUGE wings.
I remember doing something similar to the Ion-Powered Probe except that it wasnt a probe but an ion-powered space craft. Oh and it was a stock playthrough so I used solar panels not realizing they'd only have about a quarter of their output at Jool, so I could only perform about 200 m/s burns at a time. That was fun.
That is one seriously nice space plane.
Awesome experimental, if you plan to make more, I can't wait.
Scott you got to make that new plane your new space plane, it looks so bad ass
That cool display in the cockpit
You could potentially graze cattle on grass growing on the inner walls of a large cylinder spun up to produce gravity. arrays of lights could be placed near the center-line to grow the grass, powered by solar cells on the outside of our cylindrical cattle ranch, generating oxygen for the cattle and astronaut/cowhands , and ridding the environment of all that methane is left as an exercise for the reader.
The methane could be scrubbed from the atmosphere by either an organism or some machine, and could then be burned to provide CO2 for the grass.
I'm doing a take on this Jool mission now, but manned. The extra weight sure does make it hard to get to all the moons, keep having to send refueling probes :).
Scott Manley I tip my hat to you good sir on the most beautiful plane I have ever seen
In honour of a just-departed comedy legend, I think the new spaceplane should be named the "B'stard'.
The thing I like about Scott is he seems like the kind of guy that'd not only do this for free, he'd relish the chance to get people into space and physics. I mean, he's just so enthusiastic.
EDIT: Actually, I realised I haven't really said what it is I think...
Whilst lots of people would do it, he seems like the kind that'd not even *need* to think about it. He'd just say 'yes, I'll do it!' with a great big smile on his face.
Things are really starting to get exciting with antimatter and fusion reactors!
When is the captions video coming out, may I ask?
That moon changed color. Clearly, this is something Sean should check out, for it might be connected to his Mun mission. (Yeah, I demand another great mission to outer planet!)
Great Scott it massive!
Your new plane... you can call it "The nuclear 2.5 descendent of Zardos", no ?
"The unnamed nuclear 2.5 descendent of the unnamed descendent of Zardos" would by my suggestion.
I agree =p
***** so T.U.N.2.5.D.O.T.U.D.O.S?
***** "The unnamed nuclear 2.5 descendant of the unnamed descendant of Zardos Exploder"?
"Unnamed Decendent of ZARDOS - PUNDOS 2.5M Edition"
I watched a science channel show explaining the ion engine. Definitely neat stuff.
Space-sheep :D Scott, you're SUCH a Scotsman ;)
im still watching! :)
I'm still watching :D
What a beautiful beasty you've built there
My favorite spaceplane so far. I can't wait to see what it's carrying. It looks like a super-sized fusion-powered F14 Tomcat (or F111 Aardvark, but who likes aardvarks?)
I say we call the new spaceplane the Albatross. Because that's the first thing that came to mind.
the antimatter collector looks like a GDI ion cannon. cool
Wow Joolian moon to moon on such tiny delta V's... such extreme efficiency
I love the new spaceplane!
tottally seeing that...Bill building this aircraft in hangar under shutdown hangar doors..and Jeb constantly calling to Bill and screaming trough the door "What do you doing there??..can I see it?? can I fly it??..Bill?..Bill? What is in there?...Hey Bob do you know what he is doing there?...Hey Bill..What it will be?"..after few days hangar opened and Jeb just salivating hugs Bill an thank him for a new toy :D :D
I'm surprised I have never seen the alien craft sticky note that Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum had in Independence Day in an IVA.
Scott, can I recommend naming the new fusion spaceplane either Dragonheart or Draco? Since Zardoz was named for a Sean O'Connery role, he also voices the dragon. Also, I believe this aircraft is too advanced and magnificent to be named TUNDOZ Mk II. #InterstellarQuest #KerbalSpaceProgram #ScottManley
That fusion powered plane is really huge, if I may suggest a name; I would call it Buzzard
9:20 well said, Scott.
A forest survival instructor once told me that worms taste like crispy bacon when fried. You just need to wait a couple days to make sure that they have got rid of everything in their gut.
Anyone noticed, at 9:48, the antimatter collector ran out of juice during the night time? I was hope for a big explosion... either it doesn't explode during time acceleration, or Scott was lucky enough to get a sunrise within the 30 seconds limit.
I love bacon and blue cheese on my burgers it's freaking awesome :D
"Icy ball of ice" and little green men... 20 more episodes and we'll have another Irken invasion on our hand.
You have done a lot of space science in the 191 days indicated by your game timer. I'm interested to know what kind of budget NASA would need to have to do the same amount of work you are doing in the same amount of time.
Well you see the funny thing about NASA funding is that the more you increase their budget the exponentially more they can put in orbit. This is because once you start ordering more parts and engines and such it becomes cheaper to make them due to the way manufacturing works. As such if you increased NASA's budget by triple from .5 percent of the national budget to 1.5 percent you might actually see a increase of rocket launches and science done by 600 to even a thousand percent from only a 300 percent increase. Which is why I tell people constantly that if NASA's budget stayed at where it was during the Apollo era around 3.5-4 percent we would easily have landed on Mars by now and have a munar base as well as another space station or two. Another thing many people don't realize is that there are massive economic benefits to investing in the space program we know that for a fact it made hundreds of thousands of jobs and in returns from long-term economic boosts paid back the investments made during the Apollo and pre-Apollo era's at a return rate of around 30 percent.
And a short comment turned into a rant I apologize
***** Very well said, it's a true shame our current congress is incapable of making positive changes.
Only 10 years old and I like your videos
"... or maybe programmed this way."
I really hope you have a 4th wall collision insurance on your spacecrafts.
Yes, one more video!
@9:50 the electric charge on the antimatter satellite goes to zero?
and it says "cannot warp faster than 50x while antimatter tank is unpowered"
yet no bang? later i see the context menu of the tank and it seems like the tank itself has some kind of storage which does not seem to be related to anti-matter. does it have its own buffer-battery?
The fusion plane reminds me a little of the C130 Hercules for some reason. I think it's the enormous fuselage and massive wingspan. Perhaps naming it after a similarly Legendary Greek Hero? Odysseus, the man who designed the Trojan Horse that was used to bring a payload of Greek soldiers into Troy?
Given the large size and massive wing span, I would go with something like "Albatross" myself.
With that spare delta V you should use the probe to go to Eeloo and then exo-solar.
Hehe. Now I want a herd of cows next to the launch pad so I can frighten them with my rockets.
that was the coolest plane design ever. liek if you crie evry tiem.
I get the feeling we may get to see that central engien explode next episode. It didnt flip fuel modes with the other two and was heating up.
Scott, you should really try.. black cylinders that recieve beamed power, and can be used to power thermal rockets. I dont remember their name, but they are awesome if you have decent powerplant in orbit.
Getting back to a Greco-Roman style name you could go with Vulcan or Sol Invictus for your new aircraft. Vulcan of course being the Roman version of Hephaestus who had a workshop under every volcano and with 3 fusion reactor powered thermal turbo jets, you can't help but think of that type of heat. And since you are planning on building things in space with it, fairly fitting. Sol Invictus means Unconquered Sun and was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. Again the fusion reactors can't help but remind me of the most abundant source of stable fusion, a star. Kerbol Invictus may be more fitting.
yes clouds would make better intake air as they would have higher specific volume as they are heated up.
Your spacecrafts always look better than mine...
Based on Sean Connery's filmography, I've come up with two names for the new model of space plane:
1) Outland
2) Meteor
Both sci-fi films like Zardoz.
I'd call it the Albatross with those big wings.
You mentioned sucking clouds into intakes, what if someone could condense the water vapour and somehow cool the engine with it.
Your space plane has a huge wing span. You should call it the Kerbal Condor (but with a "K", i.e. "Kondor")
Albatross!
spacesheep... that needs to happen.
You should call the new plane the Albatross. I know I'm not the first to suggest that, but consider this comment my vote for that name.
This will also have the added benefit of being grounds for a recital of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", by Scott Manley.
nice new plane there
I think we can all agree that space is just fucking awesome!
I vote on "Albatross", due to those long straight wings.
i have a question on antimatter. when you talk about the reaction of a matter antimatter collision creating fission then causing fusion in theory would power generation from antimatter be a viable thing?
The "Dispensable Ingenious Comet Killer"
Hi Scott! Any chance you can make a video building one of those spaceplanes with the large cargo, maybe with some tips along the way? I've been trying to build one for ages but never succeded yet :(
Maybe something that reflects the hybrid fuel use? Maybe the Fusion powered Sub Orbital Craft, or F-SOC?
what about the arkbird? its carring one of kind space moduales off the planet, saveing it from just roting in the rocket shed like some kind of old car that cant run no more
isn't arkbird from acecombat?
yeah, i play acecombat but its not only from that
littleJoePatton its a pretty good name suggestion though, dont get me wrong
i know, and was not being mean or anthing of that sort
ARKBIRD IS FROM A VIDEO GAME!Its not a real SSTO!but it would be cool if its real,right?
Scott, can you upload the ship files of your awesome spaceplanes? I'd realy like to try them out and learn from their designs :D
The un-named descendant of the un-named descendant of zardos. The UNDOTUNDOZ!
5:00 We just need a Fire World around Jool and we'd have the four elements.
That new SSTO is absolutely gorgeous. Its one of your best ones yet. Would you be willing to share the .craft file?
Hey scott or if anyone can answer this. What would you experience at the core of Jool or Jupiter ie? you know since its a gaseous planet
you would be crushed by the atmospheric pressure. not very nice.
cosmos3110
IIRC, the currently accepted models of Jupiter and Saturn have their mantle as a sea of metallic hydrogen around a core of heavy elements.
Scott, it looks like you totally lost power to your antimatter collector at @9:50. i thought you said they blow up if they have no power. game glitch?
How does a gravity assist work? You gain speed by getting close to the planet/moon with the help of gravity. Doesn't gravity make you loose the speed you gained when you're leaving?
The speed you gain on the way in generally surpasses the speed you lose on the way out. But that's not important. As long as the gain equals the loss you'll have saved on fuel since you're not burning fuel during the maneuver.
What a gravity assist means is that you're literally stealing the momentum of the object you're orbiting. Since that object is a planet, it has quite a bit of momentum. The best analogy I've heard is that a gravity assist is like throwing a tennis ball at an approaching semi truck. The tennis ball gains the momentum of the truck in addition to its prior momentum.
it is all to do with the exchange of angular momentum between the two, I would try explain it but this www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/grav/primer.php site does a better job than I ever could
The Laythe gravity assist here is actually a really good example, he didn't necessarily gain speed, but the fling around still changed direction, so his orbit didn't hit Jool.
John Bacon Makes sense! Thanks for the answers!
I installed Remote Tech2 on my KSP and started a new career :) my probe has a reflectotron dish on top and 2 comms DTS M1 antennas and one communotron 16 antenna in some free space (overkill but im getting frustrated at this point)
I have power via batteries and solar panels recharging.
my problem is that my probe on the launchpad does not respond to anything. No steering, no liquid fuel engine use... nothing.
notice i specified liquid fuel? SRBs work fine but again I dont have steering. The probe claims to have no connection. which is stupid when the thing is sitting on the LAUNCHPAD.
Some kind of bird, because it looks awesome and rather birdlike. I second Albatross, unless it burns up, then Phoenix.
Are you against doing a remote power SSTO because that is the most efficient method of powering a plane.
I get that its not really feasible in real life but it does make for one efficient method of getting shit into orbit with a couple of plasma thrusters as well I have managed with 2 3.75m remote reactors to lift 162 tons.
Also edited the B9 parts to fit 3.75m parts plus a little extra for landing gear etc on the side of the 3.75m parts
I like the new spaceplane a lot better than the previous descendant of Zardoz.
"The Unnamed Descendant of the Unnamed Descendant of Zardoz"
Can someone please explain to me what antimatter flux is?
In essence it tells you an average messure of antimater particles passing by a certain area of space.
Do you know what unit it is measured in?
Jaccoob233
Not certain but particles per square meter sounds like the most reasonable unit. It is an indirect mesasurement obtained from the magnetic field strength.
Interesting, thanks.
Jaccoob233 Probably antimater mass over metres squared or cubed.
Am I the only one that noticed that the middle engine is still on atmospheric mode around 19:40? Looks like you only switched it from intakeAir to atmospheric and not from there to LFO. Was that a mistake or was that to get the last little bits of atmosphere?
Hmm, maybe the "Valkyrie", dont know why but it kinda fits.
Just started watching your videos cause I got KSP working two weeks ago. Really like your videos. I'm glad you give tip videos too, or else I'd be screwed using my own experimenting :P
BTW, what mods do you use? They look pretty cool whatever they are...unless everything you use is part of the game.
I believe if you look earlier in the series, he links to a video saying what mods he uses, or a list in the description, something like that.
Just google "what mods" and the autocomplete will do the rest :D
b9, better atmospheres, envioremental visuel enhancements, interstellar mod, kerbal alarm clock, kethane, toolbar and some more
Hey Scott! Whens your next vid on Best mods for KSP part 3 coming?