Scott Manley I think they are in the perfect place for that design. It's the only spot that provides symmetry and variety of orientation that isn't on an important lift or control surface. But, it seems like at least one of the panels (18:36) is not in line with the center line of the intake bodies, which is what I think the original person was bemoaning.
About the formation of the moon, there is a theory that says that there was a 2nd moon formed but its orbit was unstable and it fell onto the bigger moon. Due to the relative low speeds involved (being in the same orbit and all), it didn't cause an impact crater or surface melting but instead just piled up into a mountain range. This explains why our moon is lopsided and has mountains on the far side and flatness on the near side. Perhaps Minmus is like that smaller moon, but instead of falling back to Kerbin or Mun, it got flung into a higher orbit.
check this out, explanation as to why one side of the moon is different to the other. www.iflscience.com/space/55-year-old-mystery-about-dark-side-moon-solved
It is in my belief that minmus is a captured *moon from jool. Because of course being flung via gravity assist. *could just be anything near jool's orbit.
The first stage of your 3-meter rocket reminded me of the Russian attempt to go to the moon with their N1 rocket. They, too, didn't have the ability to build large rocket engines, so they put 30 NK-15 rocket engines on the bottom of their first stage. The result? -- The largest man-made non-nuclear explosion in human history.
I love this series so much. I like all the fascinating mods and watching someone who actually knows what they're doing play it. Despite the best tutorials I can barely get to orbit and crash landing on mun on a good day...
PC Gamer Pro Basically a symbol which has bigger history than 12 years in Germany. For example its also a buddhistic symbol (some buddha statues got it on their chest) but don't ask me what it means there. But it's okay, be close minded. Mankind needs someone to laugh at.
I can't wait for the new KSPI version. It adds what is perhaps the most kerbal form of science ever used in real world space programs: impactor probes.
Scott Manley, you should talk about what would happen if the moon was hit by an asteroid breaking it into a few big pieces with lots of small pieces etc. Some people say that it would pull itself back together due to its own gravitational pull or it would stay apart and what not.
If Ceres hit the moon it would form a debris disc and eventually collect back into a moon, of course it would also drop a lot of debris on the earth, so we wouldn't get to watch it happening.
Funny, I click on your videos to watch and before I click the button to maximize the screen I click on like. Yours is the only youtube video channel that I do that for. Keep up the excellent work, Scott!
Crap i wish i knew 1 / 100 of scientific information and mathematics that you know Scott. You put the fuel requirements for that SSTO on paper then built and flew it???!!! wow... just.. wow... I would've had to start out BIG, then see how much fuel i had left, then go smaller and smaller until the design of the SSTO was just right. I would have no clue as to how to put it all on paper :) Awesome Video, pure liquid Awesome! Put that in your tanks folks! :P
honestly scott, this series i genuinely the BEST series ive ever watched, you are pretty awesome at what you do, like every day, i look forward to seeing a new video in my sub bar, the vids are so good
You're such a brilliant youtuber you mix good gameplay with real life science perfectly funny and educational this country would be so successful with your type of education i learn so much on your videos its wonderful and i thank you so much for what you do
Hey scott thanks for your tutorials and all. I always find fun watch your videos but also you really helped me out with Kerbal Space Program to understand how easily you can build rocket that goes to orbit. Hopefully i can make first moon flight soon but without the sun panels, its a bit tricky ^^'
lovin series even more as you get more assets in place like this. Looking forward to seeing the space plane go to minmus and do the refueling at your new facility!
Landing that Fuel refinery on Minmus is quite the step in Kerbal history. Great Series. Im going to be very disappointed when i get to the end and have to wait till they come out regularly!
He should have landed on one of the poles, that way you are never blocked from the power satellite by minmus,and you have nearly constant power, except when the satellite is behind the earth
Colson Prather if he did, then it would mean more Δv requirements for any craft that might want to refuel there. I mean, he basically sending an SSTO there, and we both know you can't really sneak in extra fuel tank like you would in a rocket.
8:05 Actually an impact test that has been performed fairly recently, 2 years or so ago, proved that at least some parts of the Moon, like deep shaded craters, contain twice the amount of moisture that is found in Sahara, in form of ice water.
@1:20 It's a shame that the symbol you referring to has still such negative impact even 60 years after date, while the symbol is filled with ancient history and mystery. But this is offtopic, thanks for sharing once again!
Dear Scott, Your videos seem to have three major elements: 1) Actual KSP gameplay 2) Educational space talk 3) Fun plots with Kerbals Lately, the 3rd is lacking a bit. I would love to see more plot development, like Bob stealing Jeb's snacks, and hiding them somewhere on the Mun. Rumors about Bill secretly dating Bob's sister, so they can't be in the same spacecraft together. Things like that made laugh out loud. So please keep all 3 elements, but ramp up the 3rd a bit :)
Strapping a girder to the trail is quite realistic. The short runway package for many commercial airliners have a ski that deploys at the tail cone to prevent tail contact given the relatively extreme rotation angle required in some take off regimes.
A lot of airliners run sort of "bumpers" on the tail-strike area as a matter of routine. Tail-strikes are very common mistakes, though as long as they're repaired properly nothing bad'll happen. Not repaired properly and...well...you end-up with another China Airlines 611.
***** I honestly don't know how Tailstrikes happen anymore on a standard take off. All modern PFDs have a clear indication of the pitch angle not to exceed. As long as you enter all your pre-flight data correctly it should be fine. Then again, Indonesian pilots.... yea.....
***** Your logic defies the entire safety culture of the global airline industry. When an airplane tail strikes its not a freak accident, its a human error. The only aircraft that are typically at risk of tail strike when being operated correctly are short take off aircraft who need to pitch up more than normal, and these people are very well trained. Like I said, Indonesian pilots, not well trained, bad safety culture. Thats not murphy's law, thats a clearly definable absence of training and standards.
All I can think is "Iron Sky", where the Korean ambassador claims the Moon-Nazi Death Star Base belongs to them, and was constructed by Kim Jong's own two hands.
The refinery, fully deployed and the bottom facing us looks like some kind of majestic space butterfly or space moth that evolved to blend in with outer space, but retained the markings that make it look like it has a face on its wings. So yeah, that's complicated and this video is practically ancient by Internet standards, but I'd feel some kind of regret if I didn't post my thoughts.
Scott, I'm sure you've already tried throwing some liquid fuel drop pods on a space plane. But I've been mucking around with it and it works perfect for getting to ~ 23km without burning any internal fuel/oxidizer.. Though it's not a true SSTO at that point, if that is what you're going for. Great video as always! Keep 'em coming.
The jokes are strong with this episode. Also, I think you should add an orbital fuel storage and STO tanker so that ships can refuel without having to land and take off again.
I love the design of this craft, very elegant. I really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing this video. Congratulations on a job well done in this mission. I do wonder how they create the liquid fuel. Is it entirely hydrogen alone? The oxidizer would be easy because you can liquefy oxygen just by using the ambient night time temperature on the body, which I surmise is relatively similar to our own moon. I could be wrong on that. Science was an interest in school and still is to this day, but a lot of it is kind of out of my conceptual range. I took four trips through basic college algebra before I finally passed it and twice through to get through the next level up. I admire anyone who can understand and personalize it. My nephew thought of becoming an aerospace architect before he found his true love in medicine. He is now an orthopedic surgeon in Idaho. He got straight A's in physics, thanks to the help of his then wife, all the way through when he changed majors. He used to do my 11th grade algebra problems in his head when he was still in the seventh grade.
One thing you can do to make positioning landing gears less painful is lock the suspension on the outside legs, that way the central legs will just adjust as necessary.
It might eliminate confusion if you refer to Luna and Mun for Terra's and Kerbin's primary moon respectively. "The moon" keeps getting you into trouble. "A transfer burn to Mun orbit" specifies the body you're burning to, whereas "a transfer burn to the moon" could refer to either Mun or Minmus.
Cool video as always....bit odd when you were talking about mining water on Minmus as you were flying over the surface of Kerbin's oceans until you mentioned it again while orbiting Minmus. =)
Hey, Scott. Love your videos. They actually got me into mods for KSP, and I can't stop playing now! D: I've tried to build a space-plane, but I can't do it. I feel like I'm missing something. Are you going to cover aerospace in your 'KSP for beginners'?
I already did a series on aircraft, it's new enough that I probably don't need to redo it.Kerbal Space Program 101 - Beginners Guide to Aircraft Aerodynamics
I choose to believe that the moon was previously Minerva's moon, that the earth captured the orbit of 50,000 years ago when Minerva was destroyed. Great book series, highly recommended if you've not read it - which I doubt.
Scott, you might want to take a look at the HotRockets plugin/mod. It gives all the stock engines (exept the Rapier) new and fancy engine exhaust particles. I don't know if it takes much RAM but it works fine for me. And certainly looks gorgeous (if a little unrealistic). IMPORTANT: It doesn't add any new parts!
I flew my spaceplane to the Mun instead. Unfortunately something went wrong, and while attempting to dock to refuel it, all the fuel tanks on my refueling craft spontaneously exploded. No seriously, I was around 50 meters away from the plane and suddenly KABLOOEY!
That is an awesome design and an awesome landing. I have a question though... is it possible to make a microwave relay and put it in Minmus orbit, such that the refinery can produce nonstop?
Yes, Minmustationary orbit is about 357km so you can put a power sat there if landing it proves too hard, to be honest, my ability to produce fuel outstrips my needs right now.
Scott Manley would it be possible to have an rocket chase the moon without getting nearer or further from it? like in an exactly the same orbit as Minmus itself but just outside its SOI.
my theory forr minmus having ice is that its core is liquid nitrogen witch will cool down its inner crust and this causes the once ocens of minmus to freeze
Interstellar Quest was literally my childhood. This got me into video games and changed my life forever.
I saw that the channel's name was Scott Manley. Then a deep Scottish voice validated that name.
my sides hurt from laughter
The solar panels you put on your airplane air intakes are so roughly smacked on.. It makes me want to cry seeing that on such a beautiful vehicle..
They need to be somewhere, the RAPIER engines don't produce power.
Scott Manley Maybe on the wings?
Scott Manley I think they are in the perfect place for that design. It's the only spot that provides symmetry and variety of orientation that isn't on an important lift or control surface. But, it seems like at least one of the panels (18:36) is not in line with the center line of the intake bodies, which is what I think the original person was bemoaning.
About the formation of the moon, there is a theory that says that there was a 2nd moon formed but its orbit was unstable and it fell onto the bigger moon. Due to the relative low speeds involved (being in the same orbit and all), it didn't cause an impact crater or surface melting but instead just piled up into a mountain range. This explains why our moon is lopsided and has mountains on the far side and flatness on the near side.
Perhaps Minmus is like that smaller moon, but instead of falling back to Kerbin or Mun, it got flung into a higher orbit.
Yes, the moon is not the most homogenous body when compared to the earth.
check this out, explanation as to why one side of the moon is different to the other. www.iflscience.com/space/55-year-old-mystery-about-dark-side-moon-solved
+SeedlingNL I always assumed Minmus was a captured comet, being made of ice and all.
+SeedlingNL Or the mountains were caused by all the meteorite impacts, since almost all of them occurred on the side facing away from us.
It is in my belief that minmus is a captured *moon from jool. Because of course being flung via gravity assist.
*could just be anything near jool's orbit.
That was an excellent video! Loved the first ship and the attention to detail that went into building it. More of this please !!
Best quote ever: "Exploding engines - not great for getting into space" - +Scott Manley
I've always liked 'It Was Going Well Until It Exploded' - what are everyone's favourite quotes?
Scott Manley thinking about it there was a Calvin & Hobbes book that if I'm remembering right was "Science goes bonk"
Scott Manley *Boom!* "Well, shit happens bro! : /"
*****that sounds right. Although with KSP it's more of scientific progress goes boom.
***** I might still have that book around here somewhere...
The first stage of your 3-meter rocket reminded me of the Russian attempt to go to the moon with their N1 rocket. They, too, didn't have the ability to build large rocket engines, so they put 30 NK-15 rocket engines on the bottom of their first stage. The result? -- The largest man-made non-nuclear explosion in human history.
Oh shiet
Dont u mean 3.75 lol
I love this series so much. I like all the fascinating mods and watching someone who actually knows what they're doing play it. Despite the best tutorials I can barely get to orbit and crash landing on mun on a good day...
Scott, that was the most beautiful craft I think I've ever seen you build or fly. What an aesthetic success of a mission-- bravo!
God damn. That mining facility fitting into that rocket was SUPER sexy.
IAN 4000 ikr
+IAN 4000 Weird Thing Is There Is A Rocket Called The Rapier
+USSR , Russia gimme da puzzy boss
landing spacecraft is the only touchdown I care about
Holy shit this channel is awesome. You´re doing all the stuff I wish I ould do, plus other stuff I hadn´t even thought about.
Instant subscription.
"A certain symbol that people would complain about."
a swastika, basically a nazi sign!
PC Gamer Pro Basically a symbol which has bigger history than 12 years in Germany. For example its also a buddhistic symbol (some buddha statues got it on their chest) but don't ask me what it means there. But it's okay, be close minded. Mankind needs someone to laugh at.
SirGeforce Basically!
SirGeforce
It's also dead orky.
isaac doyel
In Ork culture it means 'green' 'proppa' and 'orky'
I once went to Minmus. I had a double gravity assist from the mun and Kerbin. I went about 5km from the Mun's surface
I can't wait for the new KSPI version. It adds what is perhaps the most kerbal form of science ever used in real world space programs: impactor probes.
Indeed it came out just as I wan doing this mission, but I'm not going to install it until I'm sure it's bug free.
Scott Manley I've been playing it for an hour or two now, and haven't noticed any bugs after upgrading from an older version.
SteelFyire well indeed it did - without any mods
I have almost the same mod list as Scott, so that isn't it. What kind of hardware does he have?
Scott Manley, you should talk about what would happen if the moon was hit by an asteroid breaking it into a few big pieces with lots of small pieces etc.
Some people say that it would pull itself back together due to its own gravitational pull or it would stay apart and what not.
If Ceres hit the moon it would form a debris disc and eventually collect back into a moon, of course it would also drop a lot of debris on the earth, so we wouldn't get to watch it happening.
Is this from SEVENEVES
Funny, I click on your videos to watch and before I click the button to maximize the screen I click on like. Yours is the only youtube video channel that I do that for. Keep up the excellent work, Scott!
Crap i wish i knew 1 / 100 of scientific information and mathematics that you know Scott. You put the fuel requirements for that SSTO on paper then built and flew it???!!! wow... just.. wow... I would've had to start out BIG, then see how much fuel i had left, then go smaller and smaller until the design of the SSTO was just right. I would have no clue as to how to put it all on paper :) Awesome Video, pure liquid Awesome! Put that in your tanks folks! :P
Wikipedia is your best friend. And Google.
PelletProof yeah and it is still more time consuming than just knowing it and doing it.
dligac
Well, you'll know it after the first time, right?
+dligac I believe even Scott needs to do some research every now and then.
PelletProof
Considering he's an astronomer - that would be an extremely rare occasion.
honestly scott, this series i genuinely the BEST series ive ever watched, you are pretty awesome at what you do, like every day, i look forward to seeing a new video in my sub bar, the vids are so good
That was the best landing ive seen anyone do in KSP, truly manley.
You're such a brilliant youtuber you mix good gameplay with real life science perfectly funny and educational this country would be so successful with your type of education i learn so much on your videos its wonderful and i thank you so much for what you do
Great vid Scott! Love the design of your electrolysis unit, and the landing of it there in.
I've learned a lot about this game from you, Scott. But that wheelie bar on your space plane has blown my mind.
You know you love KSP when you are playing the game and watching this video series while waiting for maneuvers or the game to load!
Hey scott thanks for your tutorials and all. I always find fun watch your videos but also you really helped me out with Kerbal Space Program to understand how easily you can build rocket that goes to orbit. Hopefully i can make first moon flight soon but without the sun panels, its a bit tricky ^^'
the kerbal vids are awesome i love the fact that you include real science in your vids
lovin series even more as you get more assets in place like this. Looking forward to seeing the space plane go to minmus and do the refueling at your new facility!
Landing that Fuel refinery on Minmus is quite the step in Kerbal history. Great Series. Im going to be very disappointed when i get to the end and have to wait till they come out regularly!
If you had 4-times symmetry and gotten a "certain symbol" we would have Kerbal Iron Sky
+ChrisJGames yes I've made a few by mistake when setting up solid rocket boosters
And yet if the extra ones were slightly further in, it would have been a circle, and therefore would have looked like a crosshair.
Perhaps a nice name for the base would be 'the Great Petrol Station in the Sky'?
A great fan of your videos, Scott, keep up with the good work.
in ksp, he can do what most of us can't
I learn more from Scott than I did in any class I had in school.
Every time I watch you play, it makes me want to go back and play some more KSP
"Aircraft are not known for their ability to fly with tailplanes." This is why I like you, Scott.
He should have landed on one of the poles, that way you are never blocked from the power satellite by minmus,and you have nearly constant power, except when the satellite is behind the earth
Colson Prather if he did, then it would mean more Δv requirements for any craft that might want to refuel there. I mean, he basically sending an SSTO there, and we both know you can't really sneak in extra fuel tank like you would in a rocket.
a "certain symbol people would complain about"
I get it
Excellent video as usual. Keep up the good work, and we need MOAR videos :)
I just loved the touch-down!
Scott: you are awesome, Keep being awesome. I love your videos!
8:05 Actually an impact test that has been performed fairly recently, 2 years or so ago, proved that at least some parts of the Moon, like deep shaded craters, contain twice the amount of moisture that is found in Sahara, in form of ice water.
Scott Manley, I am impressed. Color me envious. NOW.
By the time we get to see the Duna mission landing I will probably be celebrating so hard that people are going to think we really did land on mars.
i love it when fairings come apart nicely
That "Check Yo Staging!" reminder near the space center tho.
@1:20 It's a shame that the symbol you referring to has still such negative impact even 60 years after date, while the symbol is filled with ancient history and mystery. But this is offtopic, thanks for sharing once again!
Wow; you had the perfect double slingshot ejection lined up there...
Dear Scott,
Your videos seem to have three major elements:
1) Actual KSP gameplay
2) Educational space talk
3) Fun plots with Kerbals
Lately, the 3rd is lacking a bit. I would love to see more plot development, like Bob stealing Jeb's snacks, and hiding them somewhere on the Mun. Rumors about Bill secretly dating Bob's sister, so they can't be in the same spacecraft together.
Things like that made laugh out loud.
So please keep all 3 elements, but ramp up the 3rd a bit :)
Strapping a girder to the trail is quite realistic. The short runway package for many commercial airliners have a ski that deploys at the tail cone to prevent tail contact given the relatively extreme rotation angle required in some take off regimes.
A lot of airliners run sort of "bumpers" on the tail-strike area as a matter of routine. Tail-strikes are very common mistakes, though as long as they're repaired properly nothing bad'll happen. Not repaired properly and...well...you end-up with another China Airlines 611.
***** I honestly don't know how Tailstrikes happen anymore on a standard take off. All modern PFDs have a clear indication of the pitch angle not to exceed. As long as you enter all your pre-flight data correctly it should be fine.
Then again, Indonesian pilots.... yea.....
It *should* be fine, and landing *should* be perfect, but Murphey's Law is bound to strike every now and then.
***** dont forget Dannys law
***** Your logic defies the entire safety culture of the global airline industry.
When an airplane tail strikes its not a freak accident, its a human error. The only aircraft that are typically at risk of tail strike when being operated correctly are short take off aircraft who need to pitch up more than normal, and these people are very well trained.
Like I said, Indonesian pilots, not well trained, bad safety culture. Thats not murphy's law, thats a clearly definable absence of training and standards.
Stuffing 2 ISRU refineries in one launch. Now that is quite a feat of engineering. Nice!
Scott Manley, may i say that you are indeed the manlyest Scott I know?
i love this series, keep it going for a long time
Ahh it's been too long! Fingers crossed for another episode tonight!
With the new biomes, orbital drop science missions are now much more interesting, not to mention fun.
That refinery looks like a Star Fox boss when it's flying.
True Korea need a space program, for the glory of myself. Scott, you shall be hired.
But you already landed on the Sun, what more can you do?
Vlakvark Space Jam 2 with Dennis Rodman, ON THE SUN!
All I can think is "Iron Sky", where the Korean ambassador claims the Moon-Nazi Death Star Base belongs to them, and was constructed by Kim Jong's own two hands.
This aged well hahaha
@@osh-dy6tc His name's Alex.
"I cannot steer it worth a toffee" - Scott Manley, 2014
Ah I was refreshing my youtube feed the whole day yesterday:D
Love every episode
I love this stuff! Keep it up Mr. Manley!
The refinery, fully deployed and the bottom facing us looks like some kind of majestic space butterfly or space moth that evolved to blend in with outer space, but retained the markings that make it look like it has a face on its wings. So yeah, that's complicated and this video is practically ancient by Internet standards, but I'd feel some kind of regret if I didn't post my thoughts.
Scott, I'm sure you've already tried throwing some liquid fuel drop pods on a space plane. But I've been mucking around with it and it works perfect for getting to ~ 23km without burning any internal fuel/oxidizer.. Though it's not a true SSTO at that point, if that is what you're going for.
Great video as always! Keep 'em coming.
Yeah I'm going for a fully reusable vehicle.
The jokes are strong with this episode.
Also, I think you should add an orbital fuel storage and STO tanker so that ships can refuel without having to land and take off again.
Ice could be in the shady spots, like on Mercury.
You can use "The Klaw" on a rover with a big fuel tank to operate like a refueller. Just bump into the crafts to unfuel/refuel.
Keep on the series Scott!
"It would look like a certain symbol that people would complain about." XD
I love the design of this craft, very elegant. I really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing this video. Congratulations on a job well done in this mission. I do wonder how they create the liquid fuel. Is it entirely hydrogen alone? The oxidizer would be easy because you can liquefy oxygen just by using the ambient night time temperature on the body, which I surmise is relatively similar to our own moon. I could be wrong on that. Science was an interest in school and still is to this day, but a lot of it is kind of out of my conceptual range. I took four trips through basic college algebra before I finally passed it and twice through to get through the next level up. I admire anyone who can understand and personalize it. My nephew thought of becoming an aerospace architect before he found his true love in medicine. He is now an orthopedic surgeon in Idaho. He got straight A's in physics, thanks to the help of his then wife, all the way through when he changed majors. He used to do my 11th grade algebra problems in his head when he was still in the seventh grade.
Anyone else read about the NASA mission to land kerbals on a asteroid and guide it back to Kerbin?
One thing you can do to make positioning landing gears less painful is lock the suspension on the outside legs, that way the central legs will just adjust as necessary.
Good idea, although, that would assume minmus gravity was strong enough to compress the suspension.
It might eliminate confusion if you refer to Luna and Mun for Terra's and Kerbin's primary moon respectively. "The moon" keeps getting you into trouble. "A transfer burn to Mun orbit" specifies the body you're burning to, whereas "a transfer burn to the moon" could refer to either Mun or Minmus.
Scott, have you looked at the KESA resource integration mod which enables TAC life support and KSPI to use the same water resource?
Not yet, but I guess I should?
Cool video as always....bit odd when you were talking about mining water on Minmus as you were flying over the surface of Kerbin's oceans until you mentioned it again while orbiting Minmus. =)
Genius probe designs! I can barely figure out how to make a good basic probe for my fairings!
Take 1 shot when he says “Mun”
Take 2 when he says “Moon”
Take 3 if you can’t tell which Mun/moon he is saying
Hey, Scott. Love your videos. They actually got me into mods for KSP, and I can't stop playing now! D:
I've tried to build a space-plane, but I can't do it. I feel like I'm missing something. Are you going to cover aerospace in your 'KSP for beginners'?
I already did a series on aircraft, it's new enough that I probably don't need to redo it.Kerbal Space Program 101 - Beginners Guide to Aircraft Aerodynamics
It even has eye spots for deterring the Space Kraken.
I choose to believe that the moon was previously Minerva's moon, that the earth captured the orbit of 50,000 years ago when Minerva was destroyed.
Great book series, highly recommended if you've not read it - which I doubt.
You mean Orpheus' moon?
Bill,The Generic Guy
I guess you've never read "Inherit the Stars" by James P. Hogan, then.
if miss missmiss ahh good old scotty
Scott, you might want to take a look at the HotRockets plugin/mod. It gives all the stock engines (exept the Rapier) new and fancy engine exhaust particles. I don't know if it takes much RAM but it works fine for me. And certainly looks gorgeous (if a little unrealistic).
IMPORTANT: It doesn't add any new parts!
I flew my spaceplane to the Mun instead. Unfortunately something went wrong, and while attempting to dock to refuel it, all the fuel tanks on my refueling craft spontaneously exploded.
No seriously, I was around 50 meters away from the plane and suddenly KABLOOEY!
That is an awesome design and an awesome landing.
I have a question though... is it possible to make a microwave relay and put it in Minmus orbit, such that the refinery can produce nonstop?
Yes, Minmustationary orbit is about 357km so you can put a power sat there if landing it proves too hard, to be honest, my ability to produce fuel outstrips my needs right now.
Scott Manley why not power the refinery with a little interstellar nuclear generator?
also, awesome vids!
Scott Manley would it be possible to have an rocket chase the moon without getting nearer or further from it? like in an exactly the same orbit as Minmus itself but just outside its SOI.
***** Yep. You obviously can't be in the SOI though.
In case you did not see it yet - there you go Scott:
Manley - A KSP Movie
(and thanks from me too) :)
scott, quick point about kerbal alarm. there is a setting which allows auto alarms for maneuvers and SOI changes
yes... and hes been using it the whole time...
great episode once again.
Ah the runway. The biggest obstacle. It is said that he who can get off the runway is halfway to anywhere... Wait...
10:42 if you squint the outside probes look like flowers
That un-packing of that miner :0
Imagine this merged with SpaceEngine...
The only thing able to run that would be the USS Enterprise...
The Next Gen-eric Gamers with Skynet.
my theory forr minmus having ice is that its core is liquid nitrogen witch will cool down its inner crust and this causes the once ocens of minmus to freeze
Reminds me of Beagle 2, which was just located on Mars :)
8:30 Gas cloud of dust? Scott said it, so anyone else is wrong. All hail.
We must seize all non believers.
Scott is life.
Scott is love.
Scott is our god.
Scott is life.
Scott is love.
Scott is our god.
Scott's mention that the Moon doesn't have much water has not aged well :)
If only he'd known that NASA had discovered water on the moon when he said that it was dry.
my theory is that Minmus has no greenhouse effect. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth's temperature would be below freezing.
I prefer watching someone play KSP who actually knows what they are doing rather than playing it myself.
I'd say you left us with a cliffhanger :'(.
"Aircraft are not know for their ability to fly with tail planes."
Lol the thumbnail makes it have 2x more views than the rest of his interstellar videos
6:20, Some suns have a different rate of fusion, meaning that some Suns can be hotter than others. But you would already know that would you not ? :)
Must have MOARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!