KSP: A Manned "Surface" Return from Jool
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- A mere 8 months after recording, I finally present a Kerbal going down to the "Surface" (In this case 2.5km) of Jool, and returning home to tell of it.
The Joolbeast IV (Main Craft in the vid):
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The Refueller:
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(Has trouble launching in 0.90 due to decoupler force issues)
The Joolbeast VI (Can actually go down to 0m):
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(Of course, once 1.0 drops with new aerodynamics and balance, it'll be a whole new ballgame)
The Engine Pods:
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The game is Kerbal Space Program... the game that lets you build your dreams... if you don't own it yet, Why Not?: buy.kerbalspace...
Background Music:
Franz Liszt - Second Hungarian Rhapsody
Played by Martha Goldstein
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Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Summer - Mvt. 3 Presto
Performed by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players
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Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Spring - Mvt. 2 Largo
Performed by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players
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Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars the Bringer of War
Performed by the United States Air Force Band
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Ludwig van Beethoven - The Symphony No 9 in D Minor - Mvt. 2 Molto Vivace
Performed by: Felix Weingartner, conductor - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - 1935
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(Side note: It is REALLY hard to find a good recording of the 9th that is available either public domain or with a CC-SA license, this one was actually recorded in 1935... that's 80 years ago... and then transferred from vinyl. I'm impressed at the quality it manages to achieve)
*Nuclear engine explodes on the surface*
"Another fine Kerbal landing"
+Mastikator actually... *nuclear engine explodes on surface and spreads radiation everywhere* "Another fine Kerbal landing"
+Mastikator for me: *everything explodes but the science parts* Another fine kerbal landing
+ILoveCats Alot everything explodes
A fine kerbal landing
Nothing Explodes - only God can land like this... 1% of times
Do you know what the Big Bang was? World first fine kerbal landing
Adam: Adam to KSC. Come in KSC. I have re-entered Kerbin's SOI and am beginning decent
???: Who is this?
Adam: Kerbonaut Adam Kerman returning from approx 22 year round-trip to the "surface" of Jool.
???: Adam?! You're alive?!! Hmm...you've been gone a while and lots of things have changed since you've been out of contact.
Adam: Such as?
???: There is no more KSC. There is no more space program. It ran out of funds nearly 8 years ago. The Consortium is in charge now. You'll have to be detained and debriefed.
Adam: O_O Uhh....whoops. Munar assist just pulled me out of Kerbin's SOI. Looks like I'm headed to Eve with no hope of return. Laterz!
NFITC1 lol
I like the way you kept most of your maneuvers in the video. Way better to show them at high speed than just skipping forwards like a lot of people do. I am very poor at this game, and it helps understand what's going on. Mixed with the relaxing music, this went very well with my morning coffee.
Here's to you having a good day!
Mk1 Lander Can description:
This capsule was designed for *lightweight non-atmospheric* landers, and seats a single occupant. Features a novel full-body crumple-zone technology.
I love how you Macgyvered your way out of Jool's gravity well.
I like your good planning!
It was perfect!
Super duper job there mate. I really enjoyed watching you solving all the problems on the job, and the final landing back on Kerbin was indeed a typical Kerbal landing, complete with explosions and pieces disintegrating.
At sixteen minutes all I could think about was this picture I saw where the guys at NASA or some other space company were flipping out (it was a drawn picture) and on the board it said "Mission Status: SICK". That's what really took the cake of this video, everything else was VERY impressive too. I could not attempt to do this and keep my sanity. You sir have earned a sub.
The Kerbal Kraken Can't remember the name of the comic but it's where a guy flies out to the moon and shoots a bee's nest from there
I like all the male-shift work. It makes me think that the kerbals were going through the mission planning, got half-way through, and realized there was a mistake. They proceed to bring up thousands of tons of duct-tape, engines, and fuel, aswell as their lead engineer. That might explain why they want to rip off the enitre way through this misssion. Also, if it were duct-tape, the aero-breaking would either melt the tape off, or melt the tape in place, making the engines un-detachable.
Dat return. Pushing back home, most epic thing ive seen so far :D
in spite of the planning issues... I liked how you came up with solutions to problems. That is actually very NASA. How they got the guys on Apollo 13 home... use what you have and make it work. The right stuff!
The last time i entered Jool's atmosphere my heat shield exploded...
+dimwit10⁵ this was before heat shields and parts breaking was a thing in ksp
Tried to pre stage a lander figured I didn’t need it then Tylo comes so I deorbit and most of it survived
Brilliant. That's how you make a KSP video. And the mission tames some serious nerves. ;-)
just here to say you make videos that are far more informative than any other KSP youtuber. thanks i'm glad i found ya :)
so... did you remember to plant a flag?
NOOOOOOOOOO! HE MUST'VE FORGOT!
***** That's the fucking point...
Dammit... now I need to go back. Also... Adam may have dropped his keys.
DanatronOne rolls down window ... throws flag out into Jool's atmosphere ... rolls window back up
DanatronOne , buoy-flag needed.
I would say typical Kerbal mission planing was done there. Nice job. Espacially the return from jool made me laught quite a bit.
this is exactly the sort of video that I love watching. it's interesting but also entertaining. well done. because of this I have watched each of your videos about five times, because nobody else seems to make videos quite like this. I do like scott manley but in my opinion this is better, it easily makes up for the small amount of videos. again, well done.
For someone who claims to be a bad mission planner and pilot, you make and fly some pretty badass rockets. +1 for amazing piloting skills.
Haha this entire video is amazing! Especially your stellar mission planning skills!
Great Video. LOVED the music! Was having flashbacks of playing EV Nova
Ben Raymond-Henshaw Man... I used to play the original Escape Velocity all the time. Loved that game! I sometimes play naev (it's an EV clone on Steam green light). I honestly haven't touched it since I picked up Kerbal though! I LOVE the gameplay possible with Kerbal! :P
"...just how NASA would do it"
this was epic. you are awesome and quite frankly very hilarious as well!
The music made this overwhelmingly enjoyable.
That's one crazy ass mission of insanity! Well done sir.
Well planned mission. I imagine a real mission to Jupiter being exactly like this, refuel, refuel, refuel.
Wonderful video- Wonderful music selection. Love it.
Loved the flapping engines. They were almost like a part of the design, wings-like.
work of art.. I'm speechless!
That was just brilliant! The patience though...
Oh matthew karr Your video seemed so far away, but then I saw that one near you name and it feels like I won just the same but then I realized this video insane because getting so close to jool is not tame!
LMAO Awesome video! 21 years in a lander can, I bet Adam Kerman was glad to get out of it!
Happy 2.34K! Sad that you're absent
I just learned so much about this game in one video 😂😂 cheers mate thanks for the good video
Jellyfish in space. When we make it to Jool; everything comes off, gentlemen; it is ALL coming off.
Very Kerbal planning, indeed. :)
Dude, you are pretty good and very entertaining, keep up the great vids :)
Stellar work sir!
this reminds me of the good ol days! the days of .18 and big ass rockets, before we learned that we could get there with a smaller ship by doing eve and kerbin gravity assists! (Even though you did gravity assists)
The designs! The musics! Trully a masterpiece! You "ended" ksp!
im subscribing just because you did this 21:40
Lol I think it's funny that one of the pieces of music he's playing while getting to Jool, the KSP equivalent of Jupiter, is Mars by Holst.
So glad you're not actually dead as I assumed, Matt. :D
Ayup... not dead, just a massive procrastinator.
Nice job, and great music.
this is the most kerbal video i have ever seen
Congratulations Bro! Or should I say Pro!!
As demonstrated on the ascent from jool, You can see his delta-v counter lowering, Next to how long he can burn till he runs out of fuel
Cool video. I particulary enjoyed David Helfgott in the background. (if not mistaken)
Not David Helfgott, it was played by Martha Goldstein... But Helfgott has also played Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and with a similar style, so an easy mistake to make.
Ooo s...t! I forgot plant flag! Turn back! :)
Planting a flag on gas eh?
Vorty_ :)
ya, exactly! just drop it in there if the gas SUDDENLY MATERIALIZES INTO A BLOCK WHERE U CAN PLANT A FLAG ON IN THE PERFECT PLACE.
"First Kerbal to set foot well inside Jool's atmosphere" xD
By the way, I'd like to mention the nuclear engine is incredibly heavy. For small craft like the one at 19:37 you can get more delta-v if you instead use the LV-909.
once I was able to land and walk on Jool... but never came back to tell.
+Mike Wollinger Man's been hitting the skooma, I say.
+auregamer5 with an EXTRA dose of moon sugar (not going to lie I forgot how to spell sugar for a second [shuggar]) fun at 12 am lol
I didn't know there was such a thing as a surface on jool, i thought the atmosphere was so thick even things going at landing speeds would be destroyed by it's "thickness"
Nah, pre 0.23 you could land and plant flags!
Did anybody else think of 2010: Odyssey Two when he used the engine pod to push the command module with its smaller booster onto a return trajectory from Jool?
goodness gracious that's cool.
I like the soundtrack.
Your frames from adding the nukes are the same, maybe better, than what I get on the launch pad :P.
THIS IS AWESOME
This video is sublimely funny!!!
Why does jools ground turn black? I went to jool on PS4 and went straight through the blackness and exploded.
that guy is a real kerbal :D
YOU ARE THE BEST!
Kerbal was probably jinxing you for not planning to bring any sandwiches along...
Well this IS rocket science.
nice! keep up the good work
Don't know if you could at this point in development but you can select multiple tanks at once for fuel transfer e.g thee empty tanks and one full one - select 'out' on the full one and it should split between the three.
+Luke Freeman Yeah, that was added in 1.0, and it would've helped some here, but not that much. If you're transferring from tanks of the same size, just single selecting and transferring results in the fewest clicks. Sadly there's not a way to designate "empty all the fuel from this vehicle into that one."
+Matthew Karr Actually, that's been possible since like 0.18 or something, for fuel stations, to make use of the docking feature.
i love Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, and The four seasons!
Awesome! Hey Matthew- when is your next video come out?
+Matthewbraaten When I get around to making it... people like you asking though is definitely a motivator, so hopefully sooner rather than later. I've got some amusing footage of aero-braking into Jool in 1.0.4, I just need to see if I can tie it together and make it interesting enough for a video.
Woah you have a really cool voice o.o
So if you stand on some sort of platform while leaving the rocket floating stationary, is it possible to get an EVA report from the surface? like the same trick you use to get an EVA report from the surface of Kerbin waters?
And of course, awesome video
Sadly not... I did some experimenting, but it seems Jool's Surface effectively isn't a biome that exists.
The problem is that the kerbals can't stand. I'm pretty sure that kerbals can only stand up or walk when "Landed," meaning either standing on the surface or on a craft standing on the surface or on a craft standing on a craft standing... But even though they're standing on a flat surface which is accelerating them upward, they won't be able to stand on the rocket, let alone get "Surface" science, for which you also need to be Landed.
YAY FOR DUCT TAPED ENGINES!!😄😄😄😄
Funny you should use Mars, Bringer of War as the soundtrack for this... But I guess it fits the mood best.
Excellant stuff
You should use 2 docking ports for "side by side" docking. Its not easy to do but it grants much more precision.
Awesome man! did you have a recording of landing on the actual surface?
OMGAWD THIS IS AWESOME HOW IDK UR LIKE SCOTT MANLEY WOW :D
Swithin Feely I don't remember Scott ever attempting something this difficult.
Jazz Walker yeah
i was just trying aerial docking
the planes kept exploding when i tried to get them off the clamps lol
Fantastic work :) Nothing says KSP better than a jury-rigged behemoth. Have you considered using the Docking Port Alignment Indicator mod?
I thought claw doesn't have fuel crossfeed.
it does and always has. If you have fuel tankes clawed to an asteroid... and then dock another ship to the asteroid with another claw... you can actually transfer fuel from the ship to the other tanks THROUGH the asteroid via the claws! silly... but it works.
Neat, but it kinda makes docking ports redundant now.
Failing
yeah, I personally don't think the claw should allow fuel transfer. Imagine clawing into a fuel tank to fill it up? I don't think that should work. But docking ports will still be my preference because they align you straight when docked.
Are big docking ports any better at snapping together?
Failing I think they might be a stronger docked connection... and maybe even stronger magnetic force.. but because USUALLY if you are using the large ports your ships are also more mass... you do seem to need to dock them pretty straight for hte mag force to draw them together.
Hey, I think it would be a nice thing to make a jool Colony using Balloon or something
You said the terminal velocity on Jool is very low. Are you referring to the fastest speed due to overheating? Terminal velocity means that the acceleration forces match the forces from air friction.
Well atmosphere is thick, so terminal velocity is low
Only one thought: y u no ISRU?
That said, what you managed to do was insane. I wonder if anyone else ever managed to pull of a Jool return fully stock? All my Jool atmosphere science comes from sending in brave little suicide probes to never return.
this was made well before mining was added into the game .
There is obviously a surface. He proved it.
Just out of curiosity, do you think that you will be posting a video in the foreseable future? I understand that this may have become more challenging due to the aerodynamic overhaul.
+Stanley Dodds Yeah, I keep meaning to get back to making vids. Mostly just haven't been playing much KSP. Combination of work and other games. I'll likely be doing some stuff when 1.1 comes out, I'm really curious what we'll be able to do with the shiny new Unity 5 physics, especially the wheel physics changes.
Fair enough, thank you for replying.
Sorry if this has already been asked, but what about the design prevented descent to 0 altitude, and what design would allow that?
Carl Frank I just didn't have the delta-V to make that last 5km up. I tried it and I couldn't escape the atmosphere.
Ah. Gotcha. Thanks for the reply!
"Just make it bigger". - Jebediah and Valentina Kerman.
and thompwise kerman :D
Dude where are you ????
Good music.
Dope video
Damn, Nice ship!!! Now do it again in in 1.1.2
I wanna see you do it!!!
How did you survive hitting the atmosphere with over 7000m/s orbital velocity?
***** Mad skills? Nope... it was an earlier version of KSP, before re-entry heat was a thing. I think if I tried that now it'd burn the ship. Once they get aerodynamics balance worked out in 1.03 I may re-visit this. Thinking about doing a super-grand tour, including a Jool "landing".
He was in orbit of Jool for 19.5 years... LOL
Now try it again with the new heating affects?
his engines constantly overheated but entering atmosphere's didn't explode the tanks or ship?
Jool is extremely far from the sun , woth a very thick atmosphere, so temperature is probably really,low in jool
Thats NOT how atmospheric re-entry heating works ....
kris fox its just a guess, i never really gave a damn about reentry
it was in a old version
holy fucking shit thats a huge rocket
last time i tried landing on jool
my heat shield exploded due to overheating
omg adam kerman is my main kerbal i use in my ksp ....
Epic.
jool actually has a surface, it is at like -5K or something. saw a vid on it.
you will blow up at -250
+TheScienceGuy120 link?
It used to be possible, a long time ago. That changed around 0.19 or so. Now you always explode at -250m
Matthew Karr aww man
+Matthew Karr Well, I was really hoping you could land. Aww
what the freak is this unaerodynamic beast
Old aerodinamics
Why is the speed indicator much lower than the vertical speed?
+Galinette2000 sped indicator is how fast youre going (EDIT: i mean moving). vertical speed is how fast your going up
Diamond Hawk74 Exactly... Which means that vertical speed is speed projected on the vertical axis, and thus must be lower or equal than speed...
Hence my question
*****
good point
IF THERE IS NO SURFACE, CAN YOU JUST "JUICE : THE ENGINE THROUGH THE CENTER TO COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE?
Nah there's "surface" at -5km
is that -5 or 5......ty4a
5 kilometres below "sea level", as in the altimeter will reach zero, then the numbers will start "increasing" again, though you are actually still traveling downwards.
nice endurance :V XDDD
Did autostrut not exist when this was made?
It did not. It made really big craft a lot trickier.