KSP: Back to the GENESIS of these SSTOs...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- In a somewhat spur of the moment event, I decided to visit my roots, and recreate the VERY FIRST SSTO I ever built in KSP, eight years ago in November 2014. I built this using a single screenshot as the reference, and I think the design holds up pretty well! This was definitely a fun mission to carry out :)
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Craft file:
Suffer, as I did, and build from the original ;)
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Matt has gone from not being able to fly an SSTO to being mostly known for SSTOs.
P.S: my first SSTO never got to orbit. I never have. More like an SSTD(single stage to death)
Single stage to ocean is more like it. But yeah, you can die when you fly back to the ocean.
@@theforgottensandwich1770 Mine did get in to orbit, but failed to land every single time
@@theforgottensandwich1770 My guy really named it the s(std) 💀
An achievement in itself, I can't get into orbit even when I make SSTOs from his videos by pasuing and following along
My SSTOs all fall under the category of "Single Stage To Ocean". I could never get the hang of atmospheric aircraft. I was pretty decent at rocketry though. This video inspired me to look at my early KSP screenshots. I realised that Matt was telling the truth about how to git gud at KSP. The words "What was I thinking?!" escaped me more than once.
Or Single Stall To Ocean
@@takomusic1 Straight Stall To Ocean
9:10
@@ArcXDZ Even better lol
Did a flight to Mun earlier and build a fairly accurate replica of a Soyuz. Only problem is, I had to ditch the 2nd stage because I had nothing to use it for. Will develop that into a SSTO
To be fair to younger Matt, this SSTO was build in Kerbins ancient geological age known as KSP beta, when Kerbin's atmosphere was way soupier than it is today, and planes had to fight much harder against the sound barrier. A mild case of excessive sea level thrust is a common trait for fossils from this era.
In the same vein though, SSTOs were ridiculously easy to build with the intake spam exploit, so I guess it's swings and roundabouts ;D
While the soup- o -sphere made drag a... drag? It also provided alot more lift, so it was easier to get up into the thin air "on the wing" and make your speed run up high... especially with air hogging exploits
Well maybe I was just worse at building spaceplanes in 2014 than I remember :D
@@MattLowne find a way to recreate that in ksp 2 to give is beautiful ssto into modern ksp gaming in ksp 2
Being treated with all this KSP content knowing how long it takes to make these Matt 💪🏼💪🏼
The SSTO saga has come full circle.
Now a new age begins.
it's time for istn
infinite stages to nowhere
@@aurelio3532 how
@@hamburgerhamburgerv2 idk just have lots of stages and no fuel i guess
@@aurelio3532 sfs physics
SSTO: Seventeen Stages To Orbit
That moment you're playing KSP and Mr. Lowne posts a KSP video :D
Same I was just playing ksp
Matt got me into KSP and for how easy he made the game look lured me into a false sense of security. I went into the game thinking I'm going to gey into orbit in the first week of playing, 1 month later and I finally did it. Its not been 2 years and I'm only just getting to eeloo.
Thanks matt :)
Nice rate of progress!
@@eekee6034 thanks!
@@oDd112 that also happened to me in some eay
Always a good day when Matt makes an ssto
My fist ssto was a tiney thing about the size of a ww2 fighter plane it could only get itself to orbit and back however I was really proud of that ssto
I can relate to what you are saying about people thinking you are “special” or somehow “better”. It can feel almost insulting and dismissive of all the work you put into it. Nice video, and nice effort in getting good at KSP!
Hi Matt! Your videos gave me that final push to get KSP back in 2020. I watched you when i was 8 and finding you again just makes it better! Nice work man!
Can’t wait for Matt to remake this SSTO in KSP2 next year!
Especially when KSP2 adds theoretical and prototype propulsion.
I can’t wait for his first interstellar SSTO!
Love your videos, Matt!
What about an SSTS? Single Stage to Sun? I think it would be interesting to see how you would manage that!
sounds like it would be a nice follow up to the space station he sent to the sun
LT Duckweed managed it
Ayy mat lown
Nice
🙏🙏
Awesome with the backstory. :) Even if my interest of KSP have dropped a lot the last few years, i still watch your videos from time to time. Even went to Mexico city 2016 and visited the developers. Was the 3rd fan ever to visit them at that time. :) Looking forward for KSP2 tho.
Yay, new SSTOs by Matt again!
SSTJ:
Single Stage to Jool
It's not just your ability to play KSP, it's your amazing commentary :)
next video title: KSP: I built an SSTO that launches an SSTO that launches Jeb to the sun
You actually inspired me to buy ksp
I personally got into SSTO building quite early, thanks to your videos featuring so many of them! The first SSTO I built was quite special, because after seeing all that examples and guides I wanted to make something that would pop. So what I made was a liquid-fuel-only SSTO to LKO, using Whiplash and NERV engines only! It did require a lot of tweaking and testing, but I think I got it on the day after the day I committed myself to the goal.
Anyway, this all happened thanks to your videos; I really cannot understate how much your designs inspired me. Thank you.
Dank dir spiele ich auch KSP ♡
Vielen Dank für deine Videos
Grüße aus Germany :)
Ah yes, this video seems quite intriguing. Guess I won’t go to sleep 💀
I was just revisiting all your old ssto vids and saw this lmao
Never tried making an SSTO. But i am familiar with rocket launched spaceplanes!
fairing plus spaceplane
My first STO was and 8 rocket engine tri wing fighter... It was gloyus and thanks for sharing your KSP story am doing the same inn the lead up to KSP2... Which you conviced me to buy which Scout Manly and Winter Owl conviced me to buy KSP 0.13 pre-alpha when it was only $13 so glad I did.
I can safely say Matt, your videos did entice me into buying KSP.
The secret to SSTOs that unlocked the door to reusable glory was that you need to fly close to the ocean to build up speed before pulling up to shoot yourself into orbit. I just kept trying to fly into space and failing. I figured it out while messing with a supersonic test plane I built by flying as close as I could to the ocean as fast as I could. I started to go so fast that I needed to pull up to slow down, unless I wanted to burn up. Instead the vehicle ascended like a kite catching a gust of October air and left the atmosphere. Man KSP is fun.
9:53 and he drifted his plane. sheesh this man is good at the game.
I'm not really a plane sorta KSP player, tho in my current career save I've developed a few gliding spacecraft for reuse.
But just the other day I made a rocket SSTO, which can bring up 12 kerbals, and has enough fuel to get to my fuel depot where I have refueled it and plan on bringing them to the Mun and Minmus! (I've never did a double moon mission before but I have two contracts with some wanting to land on the Mun and some on Minmus which is why I developed this SSTO, but it's also a pretty good craft for just general tourist missions)
I’ve been trying to figure out SSTOs and this is for sure inspirational! Thank you!
that was a cool drift at the end
i finally got one to work thanks to the whiplash engines and thuds.. the wings are also round like a ufo and its the best control ive ever had in a plane and it doesnt even roll all over the place on the runway... AND its one of the only planes ever that i can actually land.. its so cool being able to get it to space.. i even delivered a relay satellite with it but its not very good at that.. im looking forward to those heavy payload parts with the cargo bays and cargo door. gonna have a galaxy ssto..
It’s nice that your first ssto worked mine just kills all the kerbels
I love single stage to oceans
I would love an updated version of this when KSP 2 comes out! ❤
Great idea to revisit the old plane and show us how the 8 year old design worked. Thanks Matt!
:) Matt, love all these KSP videos!
love sunny. many an episode have i too watched in the background of the stars..
keep up the videos matt, love your content my man.
These outros are on point man
🤣yep!
Wow. Nearly 8 years of practice, all in an effort to complete your first mission. That's dedication! Well done.
What's up I love your content and I've been watching for a while, can't wait for ksp2 and have a great day
i think we all have some creations that hold a special place in our heart. its ok to have some pride for them and yourself and how you've improved.
It is the very incarnation of the word SSTO.
Yes! Always great to see your videos Matt! Thanks for putting in the effort to create these videos
I have such vague memory of your first SSTO. Crazy to think it's almost 8 years ago 🤣😂🤣 we're getting old haha...
Amazing this game/light sim has had such longevity and FINALLY!! KSP2!!!
Lol this was before the days when I posted stuff to TH-cam :P
@@MattLowne my vague memory had turned into a false memory 😂🤣😂
Or maybe Scott Manley? Either way has a resemblance for sure. I'm still yet to manage a SSTO. I got into Helicopter and haven't touched anything but rockets since.
Was almost impossible I thought . It's landed and permanently left on the helipad at KSP never to be flown again
@@MattLowne yep, went back in vids. 40 seat Mun SSTO was my first introduction. So 6 years, still kinda crazy how quickly it's passed. (To me anyway 😂)
I thought that was confetti for the crafts first landing at the KSC. Not the solar panels. Lol
nice, my first working ssto was a gigant space plane that could carry a big space station in one launch, the problem with it is that when i got to higher atmosphere it whould be almost imposible to control, even with rcs and sas, if I was aiming for an equatorial orbit, I would get anywhere from the planned orbit to an polar orbit, good for getting things into space, terrible for docking
Omg this is so cool! nice to see where it all started
It took me over 300 hours to make my first ssto, after sending kerbals to every planet and moon, giant space station orbiting Duna and sending a probe to 219% light speed, after all that, my ssto still struggled to get into orbit.
sick 180 on the runway at the end there
That moment when you check your phone and Matt posted a video 2 minutes ago
Gotta love more KSP content from Matt!
Great video and happy 8th anniversary since first SSTO :)
I've been playing Ksp since 2013 and I've benn watching you since 2017-18. This video is amazing and is so relatable. It reminds me of your video on your first rocket! This video has really made my day! GG
i was litterly just watching your tutorial for that ssto when the notification came
Got me to buy it. Can't wait for KSP2 now.
I still have no idea how these things work
Ironically, I made my first SSTO today!
Pirated IASIP episodes and beta KSP, I did the exact same thing lol! I remember when MechJeb came out!!
I've played hundreds of hours of KSP and yet I never really got the hang of the planes. Always found the wing construction a pain in the behind, and hate that you have to use a million pieces if you want to build slightly larger aircraft, which then either disintegrate in the air or are impossible to steer because the available control surfaces are too small. Truly hope KSP2's air/spaceplane system will offer a better experience that allows for more complex designs
Yeah. You need to enable Advanced Tweakables, then enable autostruts on each part. The first time I did it, on my loooong Mk3 spaceplane, it was awful, but since then I always try to enable autostruts on the first wing-part of each shape, then copy that part with alt-click.
Very cool Mr Lowne, very cool.
Hey mat I love your vids I hope ksp 2 will have multiplayer gameplay when the game releses to early access
I have an insane idea for KSP, try building a Dyson sphere. I know that it is a lot of work to do but imagine having a Dyson sphere/swarm in KSP you would be first
Someone did a dyson sphere around Gilly
Matt: We do this to save the space dolphins Matt: destroys kerbin by taking fuel and making craters with other rockets| kerbin : why You bully me
New KSP video idea:
Make a space station but instead of a micro one make a massive one and for a challenge you can orbit it around difficult planets/moons to get too.
I love you Matt! I watched you since i started playing ksp and you gave me so much inspiration. keep on going
good for you! i'm really happy for you.
I have not seen Matt Lowne in a long time!
You can get fuel to flow through the wings now? I knew exactly what the fuel. Lines were for. But haven't played in ages. Hah
You can get fuel to flow through _empty space_ now! It's ridiculous. XD
all hail the ssto king
My first working ssto? This is currently waiting in my brain to be build :D
Super cool
I’ve always enjoyed these videos and your commentary. Many thanks!
I'm not saying that this video has inspired me to play the game again... But... I've been pondering on coming back to it after probably 4 or 5 years of NOT playing it. Been Minecrafting it, been Space Engineering it, been Factorioizing it... The thing about KSP is still the lack of being able to do anything once you GET to your destination rock. I remember they added some rudimentary mining functionality, there was this one mod that did it before Squad put it in the game... I'd play for those reasons, or to get a rover to the rock... but once there, the "whats next?" thing kinda bit me and ended up not playing anymore. I really should revisit.
yes i have made many ssto's
(single stage to ocean)
One of my best SSTO’s was not even supposed to be one. It was a large battleship more les an interdictor clocking in around 190 tons and 50 dry it was able to just barley brute force its way into orbit with almost all its 4000 m/s of delta v
Yay new ksp video
Good to see you go back to your roots 😊
I’ve been getting worried about if KSP2 will be successful especially sense people on Steam have been whining about the new launcher that was added, but I am pleased that your optimism didn’t make you talk about it.
Can’t wait to see what amazing things content creators like you will do in KSP2.
KSP2 is simply too little content for too much asked price as of now. I won´t buy it. Frankly.
@@Hunne2303 everyone has their opinions… I think I will still buy it as to contribute to the development of the game so when people like you feel justified in buying it you will have a pleasant experience
I've made SSTE's, but never SSTO's.
KABOOM! :D
Although I'm pretty decent at Kerbal (3000 hours or so), I still like to watch other videos and howtos to see how other people design their craft and get ideas.
ohhh yess ksp
Whenever Matt posts a video kinda rambling like this I kinda wonder if he’s a lil tipsy at the time 😂 (I do actually love it though)
That was quite a strange reaction to being cyberstalked by one of your followers Matt!
Also I can't remember if my first SSTO was a spaceplane or not, I probably accidentally made several SSTO's by spamming too many fuel tanks.
Thank you for finally saying what SSTO actually means, I've always known sub surface to orbit wasnt correct, and I was too cowardly to ask, and didnt care enough to find out myself. It barely took 3 years of downright stubborn laziness to get the answer, I count that as a win!
It never crossed your mind once to ask the almighty oracle of the internet? 🤣🤣😂
@@Hunne2303 That comes under the didnt care enough to find out line...
So. This is a recreation of the first ssto you built. it looks like your modern ones just without the nervs engine on the back. Amazing how little the design has changed. Probably cos it works
Hey Matt, amazing video, but could you try making a fighter jet
I got back into the game recently and your SSTOs somehow got me to get way better at flying them! Perhaps some kind of get gud osmosis?
They’re still kinda bad. But they do work.
I bought KSP because of your videos
I hope KSP 2 includes at least alignment and papi lights for the runway.
Finally something to watch while my KSP is loading 300 mods😂
LONG LIVE THE SSTO’S !!!!!!!
i bet that ssto has an twr above 1
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! I love it!
Nice the craft has the same birthday as me haha
Mattisbuilding space stations with ssto'sand i can'tevenbuild a plane lol.
Oh yes, SSTO
These young whipper snappers using rapiers in their first sstos smh my head
The only SSTO I made was the vector engine with the largest 5-meter fuel tank (vertical takeoff)
You should do a video ranking all of your previous ssto's