KSP: How To Get to MINMUS for the first time (Science Mode)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- By popular request, I'm redoing my tutorial series but won't be using any DLC, and will be limiting the amount of science I can get from planets/moons to ensure that we have to visit lots of destinations! In this episode, we launch our first 4 rockets, the final of which will be heading to Kerbin's mintiest satellite...
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Mods:
Gameplay: Kerbal Engineer Redux; Better Time Warp; Camera Tools
Visual: Scatterer; Environmental Visual Enhancements; Stock Visual Enhancements; Stock Visual Terrain
Music in order of use:
♫ Sonic Generations OST - Rooftop Run Act 1
♫ Georges Bizet - March of the Carmen
I started playing ksp when I was 9, and I am now in a school for aeronautics, and Matt has inspired me the entire way
Oof Ree WOW hope you become what the best rank is (sorry I know nothing about that stuff)
I hope you cn be the director of a space company, or get a good rank
stop capping
Cap
:cap:
Career Mode: You run a private space company
Science Mode: You run government space agency with unlimited funds
Sandbox Mode: The space agency rules the world and you have unlimited everything
Socialism is key
@@adamwaishwile706 no.
@@Fortniteloverepic very much true
@@adamwaishwile706 If you want to be what the US is becoming then yes
@@adamrutz6655 what
Matt you really outdid yourself with that progress bar at the bottom. Good job mate.
I like the little kerbal
Like SpaceX
Right, that progress bar is really cool ^^
Yeah I love it and it's hidden
Are you australian by any chance?
”There is no way to get a surface sample from the air.”
- Matt Lowne
Lmao
I do it every day
lol
@ Oi, how about that breathing thingy that we do every day? Maybe we're god and we don't know it!
bruh just get an air sample
it'll be like o'hair air from the lorax
Matt: This craft has way too much delta V
Me: runs out of fuel on the way back
Lol
True
I could not even land on minmus lol
Matt be like: Is this some sort of peasant joke, I'm too good to understand?
I find it easier to go to the mun first, am I a crazy person?
Hey Matt, I’m 12 and I’m really in to space travel and physics and stuff and I know this game isn’t that realistic but it’s really helped reinforce that. I’m a huge fan of the channel and I love what your doing. I am a beginner at the game but with practice and your help I am getting better. Thank you so much for your inspiration!
With much appreciation,
C.J
CJ Bress. You’ll be making space stations in no time!
Same!
It’s critical we give him a position at NASA immediately
Same here I’m very interested in this sort of stuff
You spoke my words, thanks Matt 🚀
Yes, learn how to play a game I don't have!
What a great way to spend my morning!
Buy it. Play it. Love it. Get smarter and better educated with it.
Get it now
EPIC12EPIC I don’t have the game because my computer would catch fire.
Also I am very cheap
Merrionade what computer do u have because ksp ain’t that hard to run
Brock Burton I haven’t the faintest idea. Some work laptop from 2016 thats already clogged up with enough stuff.
For those who want to do this at Career mode, a scientist with no levels has no SAS. To have an SAS, get a Probodobodyne OKTO, put it down the Mk1 capsule and hide inside it. This will give you a SAS module, and at the same time, you can use scientist kerbal.
I literally didn't use pilot Kerbals until I got the MK3 module for this exact reason. The OKTO is so op in early gane lol
2:56 "Sadly there is not yet any way to get a surface sample of the air."
GET ON IT SCIENCE!
must love dragons it’s called gas spectrometry dude
progmetalfan42 its called a j o k e dude
@@progmetalfan4270 /Woosh :)
No hard feelings. Sometimes I get wooshed too.
Where is Danny2462! He can break planets with science, so he must be able to collect surface samples from the air!
*crew report from the suns launchpad*
Lol I got to minmus with only the second liquid engines.
Didn’t get back, though...
Capricorn MATTTTTT HELP THIS MAN
OR GIRL
*Blunderbirds theme increases*
Is there any way to rescue my kerbal he’s orbiting mimnus I ran out of fuel getting back
@@cashkro4010 well you could always push your space ship with the eva pack
"Air doesn't have a surface."
"You can't take a surface sample from the air."
The quickest answer to how to get to minmus is MOAR BOOSTERS!
Aka the Jack septicey answer
@@tngaming5579 aka the kerbal way
The only answer to any question.
Wait, there's another way?!?!?!
@@mjtwomail Yeah, a Kraken drive.
Tip: When gathering science, right click your experiments and click on the "pin" icon to keep on screen... do this for every experiment so that you can get the science faster and easier... no need to re-open the cargo bay...
pro tip: bind the experiments to an action group so you have 1 button to rule them all
I miss Xscience... that would bind all that stuff to a single button, that would only show up if needed....
missed an opportunity to call it lowne aerospace 2 electric boogaloo smh
Not too late for a lil rebranding.
no joke thats pretty much what i named my 2nd save
Or Interplanetary Boogaloo!
I just watched a Grian video HC7 and got super confused I thought Grian made up that name
@@kennethtimorang8343 Yeah me too he is a god
before watching this series i could barely do duna missions. Now i have a science save with full progression and a flag on every celestial body (except the sun. i’m still working on that). it’s an amazing way to get confident with this game. thank you Matt Lowne.
You planted a flag on Jool?
I like you. Everyone else says, “Don’t start in sandbox. ”. You said, “You should get used to the game in sandbox. ”.
I only play this game in sandbox
@@michaelkaminski1166 I have technically gotten to every celestial body! not back.
Edit: hmmm, i wonder what eve is like! (straps a heat shield on a lander can onto a Saturn V and yeets it to Eve)
I spent 10 minutes trying to not flip a rocket over on minmus i was so happy when i finally did it
Anyone else not need the tutorial, but watching anyways because, Matt Lowne
50/50
kind of need but just watch
Timestamps:
1st flight: 1:16
2nd flight: 3:28
3rd flight: 9:06
Minmus Trip: 11:07
Minmus Landing: 21:04
Just to help anyone who comes still!
also you could add these into the description for chapters
This guy... is under appreciated.
Your mars pfp perfectly lines up and I'm so happy lol @@themartiangamer52
8:02 so you mean there’s a simulation _inside_ a simulation?
Jebediah Jr aren’t you a simulation?
@Jebediah Jr are you Jeb's son? JEB IS A FATHER?! *wtf* or you are just jeb just as a kid lol
well yes, but actually no
@@brunobear5620 Jebediah Kerman is my father, yes
@@hannalot_ I will alt-f4 you
This helped me so much . My first destination was the Mun, when i first bought the game. I build a very big over-engineered rocket. Thank you!
I just love your channel Matt!
Ty ive been waiting for a tutorial from you, because me no smart at game, I bad at orbits and fuel management
I've just started playing recently, getting into Orbit is still hard for me, but I can do it now. But I still mostly do Suborbital flights when I don't need an orbit
@@dr4876 for me it's just getting that science on minmus I know to some people it's trivial but that slant orbit kicks my arse alot
HAMnPORK GAMER for me it is getting to minmus. getting to eve is easier. asending from minmus is even easier.
I can still get into orbit, and somewhat fine at fuel management, but what really trips me up is landing somewhere.
Many Thanks to Lowne Aerospace... the inspiration and guidance is a perfect jumping into point for me, after stranding several Kerbins on Mun, and Minmus... I completely admire your philosophy of demonstrating what to do, and why, but not getting into the piece by piece by details, leaving some challenges, and plenty of room for imagination. after my first view of one of your videos, I was able to claim many overlooked science points, and used your inspiration for a new generation of spacecraft, and I was able to rescue Jeb and Valentina from the Mun. The downside is, I want to pause every video after about 30 seconds, and play KSP, and after about an hour of KSP, I want to watch another vid..... (smile, someone in Houston loves You!)
4:32 -> If you place the decoupler very close to the heat shield (with your mouse) it will join the parts without the decoupler shroud. It's kind of an ingame glitch but gives a nice uniform look to the craft. Just ignore that join green ball thingy and place the decoupler very close to the heat shield, you'll see that there's no empty space between the parts. And yes, it will work normally without problems.
I'm not english but I hope you understand what I've said. Cheers
that's how i always use it lol, also your english is perfect.
So it's been years since I last played KSP, but after RUclips decided to recommend this video to me I started the game up again, followed along in science mode... and managed to get to Minmus. While not for the first time by a long shot this was the first time I didn't ridiculously over-engineer the vessel and ended up re-entering Kerbin's atmosphere with 40 m/s delta v to spare!
Thank you for making this series. I've actually always kind of thought about doing science mode but never have even though career doesn't do it for me sometimes due to the contracts and funding. Maybe I should give this mode a play and see if that does better for me.
You gonna do a special episode for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing?
I agree
Yeah do that, I'd watch for sure
Yea he should
Matt...
You know you can add an antenna?
Just use the Hg-5 antenna
He will get less science if he transmits the data.
@@canaDavid1 But it will allow you to create manover nodes without a pilot.
@@canaDavid1 No I mean to create maneuver nodes
@@jaquekod815 madattak y u do diz
Can I get an f for jaqueko who clearly just died of a fucking stroke
my watching myself burn up into a inferno as matt makes a rocket to the marval universe and gets 10000 from eva reports on kerbin
Been watching you for years. I hear your reasoning for science mode, but I would love to see your early-game strategy for career mode. I know this will never happen, though. Anyways, great vid as always, and love the bar at the bottom!! Keep it up Matt!
I have seen this video several times and just realized that KSP Delta-V diagrams suggest 3400 to get to Kerbin orbit, and 4670 for a Minmus landing and you completed a Minmus landing and return on ONLY 2856 of Delta-V. Incredible.
2856 in atmosphere. The actual delta V is much higher because the terrier works magnitudes better in vacuum, so the actual delta v is most likely closer to the recommended 4000.
Finally, a normal speed tutorial from you! 😃
Édit: only for build
I only started watching a few months ago and I'm really happy you're doing a helpful from the beginning series. Good on you lad!
Great vid even though I’ve been to minmus like 10 trillion times. Hopefully this will help all of the beginning players
Joseph Stalin prove it
Sal how
Ian Galloway I want him to go to the nun. I want him to prove it.
Uhh did you mean mun or nun
Tommy Lynch m u n
it may have taken me 10's of attempts, 2 days and like 12 hours, but i finally did it, thanks to you.
13:18 So I'm not the only one with OCD when it comes to the thrust limiter...
Actually, with anything in KSP...
No, you are not.
Lol I literally came to the comments section looking for this comment. I'm glad someone else caught that too!
Chonghan L You can have minor OCD
I am like you
I actually followed along and did it this time and it felt like a real accomplishment. Thanks for your videos, Matt.
I’m halfway through my first minmus Mission, and I’ve mostly followed this except...
It needs more boosters, specifically I got enough science from Kerbin to replace the boosters you used with the big, thumper ones.
Edit: I got nearly 1000 science! :] I know it’s not super impressive or anything but I’m just happy I got my first landing.
idk for me it just wont get a encounter at all
@@clau.mm7 Because minmus' sphere of influence is small, so try making a prograde burn on an ascending or descending node, as that is where the orbits are on similar points. Minmus' orbit is also not equatorial, so you might need to use normal or antinormal burns
Your right. It's not impressive
@@crowxar nobody asked
i only got like 200 science from this mission :(
Thanks for the tutorial Matt! I tweaked some things on a couple of the rockets, and I got more science than I could spend, so thanks again!
Lowne Aerospace 2: no
Lowne Aerospace 2019: yes
Always looking forward to Saturday mornings. Nice job Matt!
This is a REALLY good tutorial Matt! Well done!
Followed the guide very well the first time and struggled to bring the last stage back with enough fuel. Turns out I was burning at the wrong side of Minmus and I didn't have enough fuel to go allllllll the way around (obviously).
Few load saves later and I'm back on Kerbin with a crispy 1690 research (I took the cheeky Mun science, lel)
Thanks so much for the guide!
"Lowne Aerospace 2: The Second One" as opposed to "Lowne Aerospace 2: The First One"
Yesn't
Matt: goes in a retrograde orbit
My inner perfectionist: you weren’t supposed to do that
Science mode is better for videos. In career mode sometimes you have to do boring milk-run missions to make enough cash to launch the larger rockets.
>Instructions unclear, flew into voidspace and met the blorg
you could stack the srbs and the top one will just burn off the last so no decouplers and you could reach orbit on your first flight
That's what I did, I managed to put in different amounts of fuel for each SRB so that I could burn to the Mun as well.
It really entertains me to watch your very first videos, because you can really see how far you've come!
am kinda curious as to why matt didnt put antennas on the ship.
edit: i did the mission myself and decided i’d get a cheeky mun encounter (and i didnt circularize at minmus first) on the way back and get some science from it too. I used the barometer, thermometer, mystery goo, crew report, eva report, surface sample, and science jr. and here’s where i got science from:
All experiments high above kerbin
All experiments high above minmus
All experiments near minmus
All experiments in minmus greater flats
EVA report, surface sample in minmus lowlands
All experiments high above the mun
All experiments near the mun
in the end i earned 1601.5 science from this one mission. I did this on console, not sure if pc is different. Also, by the end of the mission i had 39 experiments.
You get more science if you recover the experiments. Transmitting has a penalty.
@@themartiangamer52 I didn’t mean to transmit lmao
Matt at the beginning: I will not use any of the DOCs
Matt at the end: I will get the Apollo style command pod from the making history DLC
11:06 is when he starts going to minmus
I really admire your no space junk philosophy... I had a science mode save, that started glitching really bad, and I thought it was because i had so many discarded boosters orbiting Kerbin and the Mun.... so i started again, only to discover, in the tracking station, there is a button to 'terminate' debris... you probably already knew, just throwing that out there, for those who read the comments.... ;)
May have initally gotten Bob stuck on Minmus with this setup. Then tried a two capsule setup, and foolishly jettisoned my half full second stage on the rescue mission only to run out of fuel a second time. (I swapped the science block for a second command module and added 4 more solid fuel boosters).
A quick reload later, I redid the Minmus rocket with 8 solid boosters and Bob did it fine.
Because I foolishly played with ComNet on, Bob couldn't create manuever nodes so my return to Kerbin was VERY accentuated and I used almost all my fuel (and a month in the Mk1 Capsule, poor Bob).
With your upcoming Duna mission in this playthrough, could you show how to align with the rotational/orbital path when you're disoriented? I mean, I have the 3 man capsule now so I can bring Jeb/Valentina as well, but for us newbies it'd be helpful to see I think.
Me at the start: this will be easy
*Just had 67 m/s extra*
I can tell this series will be cursed
This video was really helpful, I had this game for over a year and found it hard to do anything off kerbal. Thanks Matt.
I challenge you to build a recreation of the bfr except only without expansion packs or mods
How can you recreate something that does not exist yet?
I just meant recreate the idea and design
I feel like this game is the ultimate "doesn't work that way for you" game. After copying his exact ship layout and following his exact launch instructions, I can't get the ship even into orbit. My launch also has much more wobble and difficulty controlling roll than his launch, but the main problem is that I just don't get the altitude. His altitude gain at 15:10 is way more than I am getting, so I don't even reach high enough to circularize and orbit. No idea why.
I had a similar problem, and it was because I didnt have the swivel engine in the same stage as the SRBs
Right now im doing an only 50% sience gain carrer. Its hard, wish me luck
Good Luck
MB Pokevids good luck i’m sure you’ll have enough for a nice Saturn V on July 16th
Sofie Brink ive just landed on the mun with no way of generating power
Hi
Good luck
i learned more from this video than from the last 10 kerbal tutorial videos combined. tysm!
46 views
here early bois
I have learned that I have outmatched Matt in one way.
Using Shift + X to revert to last symmetry
I know im early, when i was the 5th view
I am an awful pilot in KSP, I am a pretty good builder if the build is a small simple craft, this has already helped me being able to fly and land on other celestial bodies, thank you Matt
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I got one like
But why is it blue?
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Hi Matt
Mad_Shimmy good one
@@SofieBrink thankyou
Love the new series Matt ! . Not exactly a new player but whenever I make it to minmus I either crash or run out of fuel or both haha . Nice to see a build I can copy to see what I'm doing wrong
Matt, you irresistible imagineer! You don‘t need map mode to see your time to apoapsis anymore! Also you kann now tweak maneuver nodes much easier.
Had been hoping for the DLC to be included in this one, but totally understand why you opted out of it. Good video regardless, my dude ;)
=O
A new Lowne Aerospace series
:I
I listen to this while playing ksp so i have inspiration and matt is just the best
NASA: we will return to the moon in the next 20 years
Matt: hold my beer
I haven even played ksp for over a year, but your videos are very entertaining
4 years later, found this guide simple and solid.
24:13
Matt: To do even more science
Me: Umm I got less than 900 points out of this mission
The 3rd rocket just tips over
Keeps*
4th*
It’s finally working
Oh wait no it’s not working
@@mediocreprogrammer
Is it now?
I was waiting for you to upload ... awesome mate ..loved the video
Tried doing this on career mode where I had no SAS and forgot to upgrade the tracking station... Managed to eyeball everything just about, certainly more of a challenge than I was expecting!
Absolutely love these videos, even though I have been playing for years - love your videos mate!
haha watching you struggle to adjust the thrust limit of the solid boosters was so funny to watch 13:15
Matt, thanks for the videos you have posted so far. I have learned a lot about building rockets in KSP due to your tutorials. I've been thinking recently about your Lowne Aerospace 2 series and I'd like to request that if you do a third series, that it contain to the maximum extend possible, space probes. With this, you could have probe control points with pilots in them, but they can't be used to gather science themselves such as on landers, to plant flags, surface samples, etc. Those must be gathered by the probes when the tech tree supports that type of mission. Of course, I'd also suggest limiting yourself to one biome per planet/moon just as in the second series. I understand initially in the game that it is impossible to do probe only missions as the tech tree doesn't support such early missions. I thought it would force more creativity with communications networks while advancing the tech tree along in science mode. I appreciate your consideration! -Your fan, Bart!
Aww yeah new Lown Aerospace. I love the SpaceX style progress bar at the bottom.
Love your video dude keep up the great work
Matt: "Its very difficult to hit the surface of Minmus too hard."
Me: "Hah. Hold my beer."
awesome video as always
It's easier to get to minmus than to the mun. great video Matt as always.
5 days ago I didn't have a clue about rockets or space flight. Yesterday I landed my first craft on the Mun (and returned it to Kerbin).
2020 has been saved.
I got a highly tilted orbit, so I decided it call it quits and get back down. I got a bit of science there. Nice tutorial though!
This is really helpfull Matt, and I love the pace of this one!
Excellent Vid! I did this after the IG tutorial. Took me about 5 hours with some shady adjustments near minimus and a couple failed return trips. But I learned a lot 👍
Cannot wait for this new play though, I have recently started playing again and cannot find any up to date videos on inter planetary missions that explain everything. This will be exactly what I need!
I may not know how to build rockets but this man saves me every single time
Instructions unclear I’m in mun orbit (not kidding)
really enjoyed the way he explains everything but so difficult to follow jumping into and out of options and tabs at super fast speed. Enjoyed but will have to come back once I get some experience playing the game. see you soon!
Love the launch!!!
22:57 You're kind of mixing up 1940's film newsreels with 1960's tape newscasts, but that makes the joke even funnier
I just got to Minus, and these are my steps. Step 1 get to Minus orbit, step 2 collected a whole lot of science, step 3 put my ship on a reentry trajectory for Kerbin, step 4 impact atmosphere at many kilometers per second. Wait hold on, impact atmosphere at many kilometers per second?
I think you guys can tell what happened.
dude i unlocked the entire tech tree like you did and still had over 2000 science left
Your an absolute Beast at this mate..