Val spent 736 years crammed on a tiny can only to finally land and realize she can't even oven the hatch because there's a parachute that doesn't even have any use This whole video is just gold
the "cr-7" rapier engines work better if you try to make a spaceplane ssto style design, since you can take off like a plane and then just work like a rocket while in space
I think you might have been able to do better with a spaceplane. Make a spaceplane with the mammoth engine, use it to deliver a large empty fuel tank to orbit, transfer any excess fuel into that tank, then keep doing trips until you fill up the tank. Then ditch the plane, attach the capsule and engine to the big tank, and away you go. I might try this myself.
The solutions you come up with recovering the engine is mind blowing lol! One rover is missing something instead of making a kerbal fixed it you just build another rover with even longer electric battery cylinder and attach a rovemax wheel onto it so it doesn't scrape the ground the next time you drive it lol
please Save Her D: Btw I LOVED this episode, all the different vehicles you used to make this work. and hacking gravity was valid cause you had already touched the things together to be fair
A much more boring but efficient way to do this would be a twin boar engine with some drop tanks. It has really good TWR and it has a built in fuel tank. You could probably get to moho with less than 20 parts.
Whenever you make a spacecraft using rapiers, make an airplane. Start in airbreathing mode, and once you get off the runway, fly straight and level until you get to at least 440 meters per second, then pitch up to 20 degrees on the navball, then fly to 10km. Then, at 10 km, level out, and fly straight and level, and let the curvature of Kerbin fall away under you, and fly until you reach 20km. Once at 20km, switch to closed-cycle (oxidizer) mode, pitch up to 45 degrees on the navball, then burn until your apoapsis is at 80-100 km above kerbin. At this point, you can shut off your engine, align yourself prograde, and coast to apoapsis, where you burn to circulize. Now you're in Low Kerbin Orbit. Hope this helps in the future! :D
One idea would be to use an "upside-down" staging: Basically, instead of removing bottom stacks as you stage, like conventional rockets, you do the opposite by removing upper stacks as you stage. Or, you could also just put the engines radially on the top-most stage and discard the bottom fuel tanks as you stage.
With cranes like that you really should consider using the KAL robotics controller. It'd save you a lot of headache if you need things to move slowly. Additionally, though I could understand avoiding them in this specific case because they are technically engines, but if you remove the fuel from the tall SRBs they make really good structural parts for long or tall things.
Can you make a slingshot/catapult/trebuchet thingy to try to get off of Kerbin? (I kinda doubt a full orbit it possible, but just getting the game to consider you in space would be really cool (and prolly really hard)).
I used to have a mod way back in alpha that used a "small" magnetic catapult to fling you to orbit. Once they added atmospheric heating effects, it stopped working since everything would overheat and explode.
I respect that while people have already made single stage rockets that can reach every planet, you decided to go and figure things out your own way. Much more fun this way.
Little reminder for everyone. As of the 31st of December, if you want to try something like this yourselves, kerbal space program goes free next week on the epic games store. :)
Please try the Minmus speedrun challenge. Speedrun in this challenge context means that you must reach Minmus in the least amount of _game_ time. Game time can be found in the top-left of the screen.
His new engineers : okay were gonna make rockets for you Reid : okay make me a car new engineers: wait what? Reid : Did i stutter new engineers: Ok (While panicking)
I have literally gone to other solar systems is KSP without warp drives faster than it took you to do this mission. That’s why I sometimes sacrifice efficiency for time saved.
You were so focused if it could be done that you forgot to ask yourself if it should be done. Valentina spent over 7 centuries alone, in the dark, for your amusement. You monster.
Air breathing mode needs air to work... When you get higher in the atmo, there is way less air to breathe. So take a bigger air intake that will work better at higher speeds (Shock cone is the best) Also, those engines are made for spaceplanes, not rockets, otherwise you would need boosters to give enough speed for the engine to work
Rocket engines are usually counted by turbopumps, not combustion chambers. The Atlas V first stage engine (the RD-180) has dual combustion chambers and nozzles, but only has one turbopump and one set of fuel piping. That being said (and just having looked it up), the Mammoth is in fact 4 Vector engines strapped together. It's lighter than 4 Vectors, so there's presumably some shared hardware, but it actually is 4 engines!
@@TlalocTemporal plus the Mammoth is significantly cheaper than 4 Vectors (39,000 for a Mammoth vs 72,000 for 4 Vectors). so it is very likely that each vector shares lots of it's hardware (such as electronics and gimbal control)
I've managed to get to Moho with one engine. I don't remember how I did it besides the fact that I picked an engine that had a ton of thrust but was very efficient when you barely used it. I've also used the mod that gives you pure electric engines, but the Issue is that if you use good enough solar panels, you would effectively have infinite fuel. Therefore, you could use batteries as your fuel source.
I’ve been playing KSP for several years or so and I still don’t really understand how a gravity assist works. All i know is it can change your speed (faster or slower) and you have to dip a tiny bit into the atmosphere to do it I believe
I have another vote for you guys: “Spark” engines only, or attempting to break the air speed record?
Breaking the air record cause your Always in Space so staying in the atmosphere might be interesting
i would say airspeed because i think that spark engines would just be a less interesting "only 0.625m parts" mission
Spark engines only
Air speed definitely!
Air record
I thought "oh, he's just going to use the same type of engine"
*I did not expect him to use the exact same engine*
honestly mad props to him for using the *exact same engine* for two rockets
i struggle to get to the mun without cheats and this guy manages to get to moho with *one engine*
Watch one thud to Dres by stratzenblitz75
@@nether_bat that was a crazy grind!
@@AbsoluteHuman I genuinely don’t know what you mean
every experienced KSP player : *watches in terror and amazement*
..for 736 years
And SP2
The amount of anxiety is just barely outweighed by the entertainment
Never heard anyone call the R.A.P.I.E.R. the CR-7
@@skyler948 I didn't even notice the mission timer wow
736 years and 95 days in a near empty and lonely void and Val is absolutely THRILLED the entire way
Val is just built different
just to be stranded in a small cramped capsule with a parashute obstructing it
Not even being able to EVA on moho while waiting for rescue makes her even more impressive
@@doctorhealsgood5456 val is the female jebediah
Thrilled, hone conpletley and utterly mad, same difference.
Val spent 736 years crammed on a tiny can only to finally land and realize she can't even oven the hatch because there's a parachute that doesn't even have any use
This whole video is just gold
11:39 "so I sent over another crane to help out here". Bro this is legit the hardest I've ever laughed at one of your vids. Nice job man.
the "cr-7" rapier engines work better if you try to make a spaceplane ssto style design, since you can take off like a plane and then just work like a rocket while in space
Could you maybe try to make a rocker with every fuel tank and make it work with engines?
good concept, but kinda boring
that will be too easy for him
How about he has to use every fuel tank in the game while ALSO using every single engine
imagine being val here, stuck in that ship for 736 YEARS
I think you might have been able to do better with a spaceplane. Make a spaceplane with the mammoth engine, use it to deliver a large empty fuel tank to orbit, transfer any excess fuel into that tank, then keep doing trips until you fill up the tank. Then ditch the plane, attach the capsule and engine to the big tank, and away you go. I might try this myself.
I'd be willing to bet that you could do it with a rapier as well. Might even get it in one launch if you do some mining on Minmus or Gilly.
probably, if you were a better player than I. I'm currently working on the spaceplane method, and having pretty good luck!
The solutions you come up with recovering the engine is mind blowing lol! One rover is missing something instead of making a kerbal fixed it you just build another rover with even longer electric battery cylinder and attach a rovemax wheel onto it so it doesn't scrape the ground the next time you drive it lol
I sure hope so
9:23 perfect backflip
please Save Her D:
Btw I LOVED this episode, all the different vehicles you used to make this work. and hacking gravity was valid cause you had already touched the things together to be fair
A much more boring but efficient way to do this would be a twin boar engine with some drop tanks. It has really good TWR and it has a built in fuel tank. You could probably get to moho with less than 20 parts.
I'd say 10 at most (capsule, twin boar, 4 decouples and 4 fuel tanks, 2 tanks at a time)
@@Dominion69420 WIth gravity assists and the perfect ascent, im pretty sure just the twin boar is enough.
@@snottytoe6957 I mean with a good amount yea I was just saying for a more direct style
@@snottytoe6957 a 3 part design can go particularly far if I remember correctly
Does this mean you can get to the Mo-hole using only one engine?
A "mo-hole in one", if you will.
Edit: Changed Rocket to Engine.
Whenever you make a spacecraft using rapiers, make an airplane. Start in airbreathing mode, and once you get off the runway, fly straight and level until you get to at least 440 meters per second, then pitch up to 20 degrees on the navball, then fly to 10km. Then, at 10 km, level out, and fly straight and level, and let the curvature of Kerbin fall away under you, and fly until you reach 20km. Once at 20km, switch to closed-cycle (oxidizer) mode, pitch up to 45 degrees on the navball, then burn until your apoapsis is at 80-100 km above kerbin. At this point, you can shut off your engine, align yourself prograde, and coast to apoapsis, where you burn to circulize. Now you're in Low Kerbin Orbit. Hope this helps in the future! :D
One idea would be to use an "upside-down" staging: Basically, instead of removing bottom stacks as you stage, like conventional rockets, you do the opposite by removing upper stacks as you stage.
Or, you could also just put the engines radially on the top-most stage and discard the bottom fuel tanks as you stage.
I was about half way through the video when I realized "oh, Valentina isn't making it back home."
You casually explaining as pure chaos engulfs the launchpad with wonky cranes and cars to grab loads from your other cars.
I'd reccomend the kerbal engineer mod because it gives you info for delta-v and periapsis and apoapsis when the game bugs out
With cranes like that you really should consider using the KAL robotics controller. It'd save you a lot of headache if you need things to move slowly.
Additionally, though I could understand avoiding them in this specific case because they are technically engines, but if you remove the fuel from the tall SRBs they make really good structural parts for long or tall things.
“Oh my” is what I think every time you make an “adjustment haha. But that’s the kerbal way: if it works, it works!
Flying into the sun, but the engine/engines are on the top of the rocket
1:48 THE VECTOR
is the most powerful
no it isnt, you can check
this is, and I can't stress this enough, the most insane way of doing this. NASA needs this man
Reid would probably double the entire NASA budget lol
yeah he can help their space junk problem by “just adding more engines” that will lower their “aypoapsis”
Can you make a slingshot/catapult/trebuchet thingy to try to get off of Kerbin? (I kinda doubt a full orbit it possible, but just getting the game to consider you in space would be really cool (and prolly really hard)).
I used to have a mod way back in alpha that used a "small" magnetic catapult to fling you to orbit.
Once they added atmospheric heating effects, it stopped working since everything would overheat and explode.
your videos are cool, subscribing
wow you literally go through hell to give us this great content video. congrats.
Thank you for these videos, they have gotten me through though times.
I respect that while people have already made single stage rockets that can reach every planet, you decided to go and figure things out your own way. Much more fun this way.
Reid Captains videos have the same sound and feel as NileReds channel, voice and all. Once I heard it I couldn't un-hear it. Great videos as always!
Well, recovering that engine shocked me 😅
Amazing
7:13 "local rocket engineer saves a rocket engine from becoming a space debree"
I love your boat and car designs, please upload them.
Flat earthed feeling 10 seconds in
......
What about one where you’re not allowed to retry anything? One planet, one try.
Little reminder for everyone. As of the 31st of December, if you want to try something like this yourselves, kerbal space program goes free next week on the epic games store. :)
Best pick I got off epic so far
for some reason, i ws thinking that you were going to do this challenge with one launch as well.
You should make a really good boat in kerbal space program
This is the most cowboy move I have ever seen in KSP
Dude ur vids deserve more attention!
I'm completely lost and have no clue what you're trying to do at this point, but I'm here for it.
This had to be one of the most beautifully ridiculous thing I've ever seen, especially with the cranes.
Forget rockets and planes anymore. This video has inspired me to make hoverboats
I can imagine the Kerbin flipping off the Moho mountain as it flew by
“852 m/s is the most expensive burn I’ll have to make”
*laughs in experienced player*
casual 736 years of flight
the amount of times this man says "youcan see here" is a little aggravating
Land on Minmus (and try to come back) with the smallest engine
This isn't SSTO, this is SSTMo
Lol
Who da fuq calls the RAPIER the CR-7?
One engine, 2 rockets, 736 years and that’s all it takes to land on moho!
That miniature makes me feel of space laser from Bond movie.
That was CRAZY
ON HOW U GOT THE SINGLE ENGINE FROM SPACE TO A NEW ROCKE5
*"basically just: kerbal space program but in debt"*
One thing you could have done that would have made this rocket a lot less complicated is attaching the fuel tanks that get decoupled on the side
Just a short 7 century scenic flight to Moho!
16:54 it's also very close to the sun, if it was a lot further, like Jool, it will have gravity of duna
edit: i mean effect on ur orbit
Next Challange: Ounly with RSC
Only a 9km mun assist?
Imagine not getting within 20m of the mountains for your gravity assist
I’m watching this at my school
Please try the Minmus speedrun challenge. Speedrun in this challenge context means that you must reach Minmus in the least amount of _game_ time. Game time can be found in the top-left of the screen.
His new engineers : okay were gonna make rockets for you
Reid : okay make me a car
new engineers: wait what?
Reid : Did i stutter
new engineers: Ok (While panicking)
Make a plane that can fly in space!
That's called an SSTO.
Kerbal Ground Services and Aircraft Handling
I am convinced that this dude is just NileRed playing ksp
nilered is smart though
@@person___9💀
EJ_SA did this on a daily, even built launchpads
I can’t even get to space this dude uses 1 engine for 2 rockets
Going the extra mile to bring the engine back to the station… respec
Honestly, the trajectory that you used was somewhat like BepiColombo or Messenger.
I can’t be the only one who was outwardly confused by him referring to the Rapier, as the CR-7.
I have literally gone to other solar systems is KSP without warp drives faster than it took you to do this mission. That’s why I sometimes sacrifice efficiency for time saved.
You were so focused if it could be done that you forgot to ask yourself if it should be done.
Valentina spent over 7 centuries alone, in the dark, for your amusement. You monster.
Yo the end, great meme, happens to me all the time
Air breathing mode needs air to work... When you get higher in the atmo, there is way less air to breathe. So take a bigger air intake that will work better at higher speeds (Shock cone is the best)
Also, those engines are made for spaceplanes, not rockets, otherwise you would need boosters to give enough speed for the engine to work
A suggestion would be to use onion or asparagus staging to greatly increase delta v
Normally I'd agree, but I don't think that'd really help here on account of the singular engine.
Only took 736 years without a return 🤣
Well, mammoth engine are four engines, not one...
Rocket engines are usually counted by turbopumps, not combustion chambers.
The Atlas V first stage engine (the RD-180) has dual combustion chambers and nozzles, but only has one turbopump and one set of fuel piping.
That being said (and just having looked it up), the Mammoth is in fact 4 Vector engines strapped together. It's lighter than 4 Vectors, so there's presumably some shared hardware, but it actually is 4 engines!
@@TlalocTemporal plus the Mammoth is significantly cheaper than 4 Vectors (39,000 for a Mammoth vs 72,000 for 4 Vectors). so it is very likely that each vector shares lots of it's hardware (such as electronics and gimbal control)
You are reposting my childhood
Please, for the love of the kraken, call the CR-7 a rapier PLEASE
next challenge: kerbal space program irl
Ez
go to the hardest planet to get to and colonize it with three rockets or 1 space shuttle
I've managed to get to Moho with one engine. I don't remember how I did it besides the fact that I picked an engine that had a ton of thrust but was very efficient when you barely used it. I've also used the mod that gives you pure electric engines, but the Issue is that if you use good enough solar panels, you would effectively have infinite fuel. Therefore, you could use batteries as your fuel source.
Why does he sound like NileRed
Why the heck did the mission take 400 years you made valentena sit in there for that long bruh you a monster
Meanwhile Danny2464 spaghettihies them and other horrific things.
I think yup should try to make a rocket that can go to moho with the largest engines only
Wouldn't this one engine rocket be an SSTO?
Can you go to Eloo with EVERY pices in the game ?!
I'm worried I'm missing something - but would asparagus staging of radially attached fuel tanks not be the obvious choice?
Have fun doing that while im safe on the ground.
if you dont get scatterer im going to sob
I’ve been playing KSP for several years or so and I still don’t really understand how a gravity assist works.
All i know is it can change your speed (faster or slower) and you have to dip a tiny bit into the atmosphere to do it I believe
5:24 "adopting"
This dudes brain is crazy
Couldn't you have just used that 3 part rocket you made before? It can go to Duna, Ike, and the Mun in 1 launch, so maybe it can go to Moho?
Got an idea for ksp vid: can you get to mun without any techs?
Game: Stormworks
Challenge: Make an autoturret, you can make it aim at vehicles using radar.
Wait, why did you use docking ports instead of decouplers?
local man invents ssto but to the extreme