Oh man, did I regret that setup. Yes, do half of your transfers in the Jool system with Ion thrusters and barely any solar panels. You will definitely not regret that decision deeply
Here's a challenge for you, Matt: make a ship which carries a kerbal for every moon and planet in the solar system. Your job is to use the ship to visit every single planet and moon and leave a flag on every single one of them and return to Kerbin after that. Good luck.
@@cornebeyers485 he did one without carrying a bunch of kerbals and skipping Eve, tylo, and (I think) Moho. This would be a little different but much harder.
@@NoahDaun-yd2epif you have control of both vehicles and can rendezvous then the lowne lazy method trivialises it -approach and kill relative velocity, get decently close (like target on other vessel’s docking port - set sas to target - switch vessel, repeat from step 2 - gently accelerate one vessel toward the other
This is one of my favorite ship designs you've made Matt. Two launches, on-orbit assembly, sleek and realistic-ish looking (for KSP of course). I see some echoes of the Nautilus-X concept from a few years back. Looking forward to part two.
Just recently started playing this thanks to you Finally got my first space plane into space today where it was immediately body slammed by my only orbiting satellite destroying both
It was in a low orbit it just happened to be over the space centre as the plane crossed over its flight path I probably should have checked it's position before launching and waited for it to pass over first
Should of clipped it. The probability that everything aligned perfectly for a less than 0.1km encounter is so astronomically improbable... I’m hard pressed to believe this actually happened. If it did... damn bro! Check the map prior to launch while on t launch pad 😂. If it didn’t happen... great story
"You have to be careful with the Kerbal EVA packs on Gilly, or you could send your kerbal on an escape trajectory." Challenge: Gilly mission where a Kerbal's EVA pack IS the ascent module (i.e. the kerbal uses it to get from Gilly's surface back to the interplanetary transfer stage)
This kind of playing around in low gravity is what makes me keep coming back to this game. :) Just for giggles, I went to the inner planet and turned on infinite fuel and orbited my kerbal with just his EVA pack. It was cool as heck.
I wouldn't mind longer videos, like one that you do a real time build of a rocket, no speed up and hearing your thoughts on the parts and the build haha
“Put some parachutes on it... save the polar bears etc etc etc”. THIS on a T-shirt with a rocket capsule parachuting and a polar bear underneath it surrounded by used boosters on an iceberg! 😂
"My lawyers will be in touch if anyone uses this design without a providing a royalty in the form of a tee shirt purchase or patreon donation" *SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LEGAL TEAM WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
I am unbelievably jealous. I haven’t made it to Minmus yet. I only have 3 satellites in sandbox mode. Update: In the months since this comment, I have progressed greatly. I have so many satellites around Kerbin that collision is actually a threat. A Mun colony, working rescue crafts for Mun landings gone wrong. I’m honestly impressed with myself.
@@ez_theta_z9317 oh my god please don’t remind me of this. i’ve done alright, though! i’ve got permanent mun, minmus, and duna colonies in my best save
If you pause at the right time around 19:10, something can be seen flying past the bottom right side of the screen. Is that just the Rhino stage, or has Matt filled his Kerbin orbit with so many probes that he nearly Kessler'd himself on screen?
I just realised that if you make a robotic arm with the actuators and rams and stick a grabber on it, your mining vessel can grab onto any other vessel and refuel it.
I recently did my first orbital spacecraft assembly. Due to a lack of foresight, I had to send it to minmus instead of duna, as I had put too large a payload on it.
What do you think about something which is absolutely the contrary of what you usually do ? A Multi Launch Mun / Duna Station - as realistic as possible with KSP Stock Parts. No huge SSTOs, no weird locking stacked Rockets. Its going to be hard i guess but i would love to see that from you once.
having a bottom heat shield only is ok because all of the mass is concentrated at the bottom of the heat shield, so aerodynamics dictate that it is not likely to tumble and flip. You just have to make sure the heat shield is on the side with more mass. Thats why you dont need 2 on kerbin, and you dont need 2 on eve either.
I've made a cute little Gilly Hopper with 2x RCS quads with thrust set very low, and instead of landing legs I use the small hinges and a few of the tiny cube frames. The stock landing legs bounce too much even with weak springs and dampers!
My first landing on Gilly: I brought a small probe with a terrier, expecting gravity to be slightly lower than on Minmus. The probe also had RCS. I had to use the terrier at very low power. Then, I decided to do an experiment (after finishing the mission). The probe escaped Gilly with only RCS thrusters.
yesterday i returned from duna with starship wannabe version, on my way back i was left with 600 delta v, with this i managed to get into kerbin 85km orbit and land with help of some parachutes and engines, he called me a cheater that this is unposible... well thing is i learned to aeorbrake from Matt Lowne, and everything is posible :D D
kewl beans, having played this game years ago, i think pre 1.0 era, i've recently picked it back up after seeing ksp2 reveal trailers and the 1.8 update, so much has changed that my head is still spinning but the career mode is amazing to play, been chucking about 12 hours into it over the last 2 weekends, which is more than double what i usually spend gaming.
man i wish i could make stuff like this, i only just started playing again and managed to create a 1:1 scale of the international space station that took 6 different rocket launches to put together into one big space station
You make it look so easy. I'm trying to make a ship that can take off from Eve that is similar to your design but I just can't manage to get 8,000 dv out of it.
I'm curious how you assemble in orbit using only what looks like docking port Sr. without the ship shaking itself apart once you start to accelerate. I can't seem to get around that when trying to build in orbit
Keep trying mate, don’t give up, push technology and yourself. If you need better tech do flybys of Eve and Duna if you can. Minmus much easier than Mun. Practice landing on Minmus first.
try mechjeb. it helps me with more efficient takeoffs and better mun transfers. aside from those two things, its easy enough to do once you get the hang of it
@Elemental King If you switch to one ship, activate auto SAS by targeting the docking port, switch to the other ship and do the same thing and slowly bring them together without switching back to the first one
Hey Matt Lowne just have to say i love your videos i watch when a new come up, would be fun if you did a video how to build a stable rocket and how to make it stay in orbit and not falling down when it's in warp mode. agien thansk for your awsome ksp videos keep them up i rally love them ! mvh Hugo
you SHOULD make an hour long video.. most of us passively watch your videos so a longer one would give us the ability to watch for longer at a time i think..
I made a horrendously overpowered rocked once. It was only one stage, so I used the l.e.s and wanted to see how far it went before running out of fuel... It got to an orbit of somewhere between 80-120km periapsis and 350-500km apoapsis. An accident flies better than me.
Hey Matt, I have a question for you How you build the ships in that way? I mean, you assemble some parts that seems impossible, its seems like they are sticked whit superglue xd For be more specify, when you match 2 fuel tanks, the game match together like they must be in that order, but when you build the rover, for example, you put parts that don't seem to go there, but then it works!!, is any kind of mod or is the vanilla game? In that minute (1:19), you assemble this kind of arm to the body of the rover, but the game dont match it, so for my impression, is like this part doesn't go there. Its only happen to me, right?
19:05
Normal people: Ocean
Matt: *W A T E R B I O M E*
Hmmm yes the water here is made out of water
It’s all that Minecraft
S O I L L A N D
Water biyome
@@thescatman8897 H2O*
"I'll put some parachutes on to save it....Save the polar bears, recycle etc etc"~matt lowne 2019
7:54
Matt: "... and the video would have been over an hour long!"
Me: "great, i can watch it while i do my ion burns!"
Oh man, did I regret that setup. Yes, do half of your transfers in the Jool system with Ion thrusters and barely any solar panels. You will definitely not regret that decision deeply
Oh no just the picture in my mind of someone doing burns that long has given me mental issues
Physics warp
@@sergegordeev9426 cAnNoT WaRp WhiLe ThE vEsSeL iS uNdEr AcCeLeRaTiOn
@@riccardoorlando2262 Press right shift and arrow on Linux, I don't know what is the key for physics warp on others.
Here's a challenge for you, Matt: make a ship which carries a kerbal for every moon and planet in the solar system. Your job is to use the ship to visit every single planet and moon and leave a flag on every single one of them and return to Kerbin after that.
Good luck.
Isn't this called the "grand tour"? I though he already did one of those.
Darkner that is a type of speed run you know
thats called a grand tour mate
A video like this would be like 2 hours long
@@cornebeyers485 he did one without carrying a bunch of kerbals and skipping Eve, tylo, and (I think) Moho. This would be a little different but much harder.
Matt I would be totally ok with a 1 hour vid! Hype for next week😉
Me too
@@krizsan0596 No, you don't. I have a 45 minute video on my channel, I don't recall paying for it...
@@krizsan0596 I don't have that, either. I don't know what you're on about.
@@Cleptro he doesn’t know either
@@krizsan0596 hg0ct
"It's no easy to land on gilly, almost like docking...",
Me: 👀
how tf is docking easy, well it's easy for this guy but for us normal people, it's hella hard
@@NoahDaun-yd2epif you have control of both vehicles and can rendezvous then the lowne lazy method trivialises it
-approach and kill relative velocity, get decently close (like target on other vessel’s docking port
- set sas to target
- switch vessel, repeat from step 2
- gently accelerate one vessel toward the other
This is one of my favorite ship designs you've made Matt. Two launches, on-orbit assembly, sleek and realistic-ish looking (for KSP of course). I see some echoes of the Nautilus-X concept from a few years back. Looking forward to part two.
Just recently started playing this thanks to you
Finally got my first space plane into space today where it was immediately body slammed by my only orbiting satellite destroying both
It was in a low orbit it just happened to be over the space centre as the plane crossed over its flight path
I probably should have checked it's position before launching and waited for it to pass over first
The probability of this happening is absolutely ridiculously low.... sorry about that bro
@@Stratocasterhead51 on the plus side it was an unmanned flight
Shadow Heart man that’s super unlucky xD
Should of clipped it. The probability that everything aligned perfectly for a less than 0.1km encounter is so astronomically improbable... I’m hard pressed to believe this actually happened. If it did... damn bro! Check the map prior to launch while on t launch pad 😂. If it didn’t happen... great story
"You have to be careful with the Kerbal EVA packs on Gilly, or you could send your kerbal on an escape trajectory."
Challenge: Gilly mission where a Kerbal's EVA pack IS the ascent module (i.e. the kerbal uses it to get from Gilly's surface back to the interplanetary transfer stage)
And descent module
Not enough delta-v to descend and ascend.
But there is EVA suit fuel with the inventory system, so you could have a storage container with more.
This kind of playing around in low gravity is what makes me keep coming back to this game. :) Just for giggles, I went to the inner planet and turned on infinite fuel and orbited my kerbal with just his EVA pack. It was cool as heck.
You should try and smash a ship into the surface of eve as fast as possible
Thats fun
Rip kerbals
Not burning up will be hard
@@CreepilyCrply that's the challenge
I know
I wouldn't mind longer videos, like one that you do a real time build of a rocket, no speed up and hearing your thoughts on the parts and the build haha
This was the first thing I saw when I got home. What a great way to unwind!
I, for one, would have no problem with an hour of your brand of KSP!
Already looking forward to part two.
“Put some parachutes on it... save the polar bears etc etc etc”. THIS on a T-shirt with a rocket capsule parachuting and a polar bear underneath it surrounded by used boosters on an iceberg! 😂
YES!
I need
I’ll take the entire stock
Cause there’s non >:(
Matt Lowne: 2 Kerbals to Eve, 10,000 tonne launch mass.
Bradley Whistance: *_1 Kerbal to Eve, 9 tonne launch mass._*
Matt: it’s as easy as docking landing on gilly
Me: can’t dock anything in space
Also me: ITS NOT
just learn how to burn retrograde to target
"My lawyers will be in touch if anyone uses this design without a providing a royalty in the form of a tee shirt purchase or patreon donation"
*SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LEGAL TEAM WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
Matt: *asking for royalties for the dual cockpit design*
Me: *uses structural tube instead of fairing*
Matt: *surprised pikachu face*
I was literally thinking i could just to put the capsule upside down use an engine bay and put the ladder on the inside XD but yours works better.
I am unbelievably jealous. I haven’t made it to Minmus yet. I only have 3 satellites in sandbox mode.
Update: In the months since this comment, I have progressed greatly. I have so many satellites around Kerbin that collision is actually a threat. A Mun colony, working rescue crafts for Mun landings gone wrong. I’m honestly impressed with myself.
Impressive.
how've you done in the 3 years since the comment
@@ez_theta_z9317 oh my god please don’t remind me of this. i’ve done alright, though! i’ve got permanent mun, minmus, and duna colonies in my best save
@@floo1465 nice
"We are going to reach Eve before this Decade is out"
That part count made my computer explode just watching it.
Bring it to explore every planet in the kerbol system. Expand the ship with multiple landers
If you pause at the right time around 19:10, something can be seen flying past the bottom right side of the screen. Is that just the Rhino stage, or has Matt filled his Kerbin orbit with so many probes that he nearly Kessler'd himself on screen?
1:50 Mat Lowne is a good person. no other TH-camrs do this.
I still cant believe you invented this game youre such a legend matt
A video... that I have been waiting for for so long...
Very complex and elegant ship, looking forward to seeing the rest of the mission next week!
"You're welcome to use an actual tool" like a protractor!
I'm glad someone took my idea...
See you in a week, Matt. I wanna binge for an hour.
I just realised that if you make a robotic arm with the actuators and rams and stick a grabber on it, your mining vessel can grab onto any other vessel and refuel it.
That is a beautiful rocket
Imagine that Matt it's a secret agent for nasa xd
This is the best thing to wake up to 🤩🤩
definitely.
Even though it is an animated exercise he is demonstrating practical ideas which is where CAD of this type is most valuable
I recently did my first orbital spacecraft assembly. Due to a lack of foresight, I had to send it to minmus instead of duna, as I had put too large a payload on it.
Nice rocket and keep it up!!!
2:54 my video froze mid way through Matt saying cockpit. :))
Fun Facts rip
What do you think about something which is absolutely the contrary of what you usually do ? A Multi Launch Mun / Duna Station - as realistic as possible with KSP Stock Parts. No huge SSTOs, no weird locking stacked Rockets.
Its going to be hard i guess but i would love to see that from you once.
I love you matt! Best builder in ksp!
4:05 yeah, procedural parts saves the making history set for me.
“Susceptible to kraken attacks”
*eldritch Valentina flashbacks*
Wats kraken
I swear to god that better be a joke
ШHITΣDΔШΠ honestly how does one not know of the horrors of eldritch valentina and the kraken
Krizsan 0596 *SOMEHOW* doesn’t know
having a bottom heat shield only is ok because all of the mass is concentrated at the bottom of the heat shield, so aerodynamics dictate that it is not likely to tumble and flip. You just have to make sure the heat shield is on the side with more mass. Thats why you dont need 2 on kerbin, and you dont need 2 on eve either.
17:03: Jeb looks like he's carrying the Phantom Zone from Superman over to the other ship.
I've made a cute little Gilly Hopper with 2x RCS quads with thrust set very low, and instead of landing legs I use the small hinges and a few of the tiny cube frames. The stock landing legs bounce too much even with weak springs and dampers!
at about 7 minutes in, I was reminded that he is making another rocket, which I forgot already.
gorgeous ship
you know that no matter how long the video is we'll watch it
I was just thinking: man I need a Matt Lowne video.
Hello from 2022. That rocket isn't SLS like, it actually flies.
The asparagus setting has been done by JPL on their very first mission to send a rover to mars.
My first landing on Gilly:
I brought a small probe with a terrier, expecting gravity to be slightly lower than on Minmus. The probe also had RCS. I had to use the terrier at very low power. Then, I decided to do an experiment (after finishing the mission). The probe escaped Gilly with only RCS thrusters.
KSP VIDEO YAYYYYYYYY
Sees when was the vid was uploaded*
5 minutes?
Yes, it's weird.
Mine was 9
Looks awesome. Can't wait to see it cartwheel on aerobrake ;-) around some planet
no. that is not a ship, Matt. that is a damn space station
yesterday i returned from duna with starship wannabe version, on my way back i was left with 600 delta v, with this i managed to get into kerbin 85km orbit and land with help of some parachutes and engines, he called me a cheater that this is unposible... well thing is i learned to aeorbrake from Matt Lowne, and everything is posible :D D
Really wish we just got the solid 1 hour plus. Would have sat down for the entire time.
The ship looks so cool
Very cool . Thank you.
Me: woke up
Matt: here, new video
The ship reminds me a bit of the Ultra Probe from the Space 1999 episode Dragon’s Domain.
kewl beans, having played this game years ago, i think pre 1.0 era, i've recently picked it back up after seeing ksp2 reveal trailers and the 1.8 update, so much has changed that my head is still spinning but the career mode is amazing to play, been chucking about 12 hours into it over the last 2 weekends, which is more than double what i usually spend gaming.
Asymmetric SRB in real world helps push the rocket into its gravity turn. This helps increase the efficiency Thank you and I Love your videos
I just imagine him playing off and doing something like this and when he's done just "That was Completely unnecessary but cool!"
love the radioactive isotope mark wattney reference
The purple artifact can be caused by PlanetShine in case you are using it
4:26 LAWYERS? now I'm scared of this mf
You can work as rocket technic!
I love orbital construction!
It just sucks that most KSP TH-camrs make their systems single launch, even their space stations.
dude, you make some awesome looking ships!
Gilly landings although easy are certainly tedious.
It's just the highly eccentric orbit
man i wish i could make stuff like this, i only just started playing again and managed to create a 1:1 scale of the international space station that took 6 different rocket launches to put together into one big space station
You make it look so easy. I'm trying to make a ship that can take off from Eve that is similar to your design but I just can't manage to get 8,000 dv out of it.
Another challenge!
Go anywhere but use the jettison heat shield function as decouplers
Easy!
I'm curious how you assemble in orbit using only what looks like docking port Sr. without the ship shaking itself apart once you start to accelerate. I can't seem to get around that when trying to build in orbit
Man you're very good and impressive
Keep it up
The final ship is very pretty.
Haven’t reached the mun yet 😓
you need to:
use qucksaves
never surrender
try
hard work
Keep trying mate, don’t give up, push technology and yourself. If you need better tech do flybys of Eve and Duna if you can. Minmus much easier than Mun. Practice landing on Minmus first.
We were all there once, just keep trying
I actually landed on the mun before minmus
But dude, lots of quick saves is the answer
Dont burn all of your fuel, suicide burns are more efficient
try mechjeb. it helps me with more efficient takeoffs and better mun transfers. aside from those two things, its easy enough to do once you get the hang of it
Watching this in half speed has caused me to laugh my ass off for the last like 30 minutes. I definitely recommend.
Why does the sas keep targeted at the other docking port? Whenever I do that the ship reverts to stability when I switch back to the docking ship.
It keeps auto SAS if you have a probe with connection or a pilot Kerbal. It only goes back to stability assist when you switch back
@@wyldcat9396 but how do you dock without switching back
@Elemental King If you switch to one ship, activate auto SAS by targeting the docking port, switch to the other ship and do the same thing and slowly bring them together without switching back to the first one
The purple square is from planetshine
You should do a series where you fly subscribers rockets
Hey Matt Lowne just have to say i love your videos i watch when a new come up, would be fun if you did a video how to build a stable rocket and how to make it stay in orbit and not falling down when it's in warp mode. agien thansk for your awsome ksp videos keep them up i rally love them ! mvh Hugo
The kraken has disguised itself as a pink square attached itself to a kerbanoght 18:14
As of today, it has been exactly 1 year since this vid was uploaded
Matt: "lOOk fORwArD tO nExT wEeEk gUyS"
Yes! I've been wating all week! 1h isnt a problem Matt! But if it gives you more time to do the next weeks video it is fine!
"because they burned straight onto the fuel tanks below us and in KSP that means they provide zeeero thrust..."
It's the same in real life too
love building timelapse
I saw the discord message pop up and then immediately saw this pop up
you SHOULD make an hour long video.. most of us passively watch your videos so a longer one would give us the ability to watch for longer at a time i think..
I made a horrendously overpowered rocked once. It was only one stage, so I used the l.e.s and wanted to see how far it went before running out of fuel... It got to an orbit of somewhere between 80-120km periapsis and 350-500km apoapsis. An accident flies better than me.
Try infinite fuel hack
How do you move the ship up to extend the rocket further, without grabbing the initial cockpit?
YES
Oh snap! A build from Matt that needs an Ominus Dominus to use.... what if I change ONE thing technically it wouldn’t be this build 🤔😂
Hey Matt, I have a question for you
How you build the ships in that way? I mean, you assemble some parts that seems impossible, its seems like they are sticked whit superglue xd
For be more specify, when you match 2 fuel tanks, the game match together like they must be in that order, but when you build the rover, for example, you put parts that don't seem to go there, but then it works!!, is any kind of mod or is the vanilla game?
In that minute (1:19), you assemble this kind of arm to the body of the rover, but the game dont match it, so for my impression, is like this part doesn't go there. Its only happen to me, right?
It's the rotation and offset tools in the top left
Ah yes. The ksp god has risen
Love your vids
What are those pink squares? 16:38, 17:02?
Glitches in his graphic mods.
@@TheRealFraston thanks
Yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii