Building an Epic Space Station with Reusable Rockets! - KSP 1.2.2

[@MarkThrimm]

We needed a new cargo terminal for the SSTO Space Program, so I thought this one might do. Station dry mass: 1000 tons, when full with cargo: 12500 tons. It needs parts from Umbra Space Industries mods. I hope you'll like it, you're great guys I love you!

[@f1viewer319]

Mark Thrimm you are really the best gamer in ksp! We love you!

[@michelledilullo2762]

Mark Thrimm when ur payload is bigger the the rocket pushing it 😄 love the vid btw

[@rusinol2137]

it was taller rocked had 8 engines and 8 tanks

[@jxmint4458]

Mark Thrimm you deserve way more subs , amazing

[@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120]

can you tell me what music is playing, I know it's from jonhames bornholf just don't know which.

[@Sashagamer614]

you know real shit is up when the launchpad blows up at launch

[@igors.oliveira5809]

"Not even NASA computers can run the take off in 60fps" Lmao

[@Shuroii]

Honestly it's game optimization which is at fault here

[@Skullbrothers]

@@Shuroii not really. No modern simulation runs perfectly in a modern computer.

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@Skullbrothers KSP is litterally put together with duck tape. It's terrible un optimised.

[@evelynscharf7828]

I don't know if you've noticed, but your rockets are slightly un-aerodynamic...

[@achillesa5894]

IIIDoctor_EIII with enough rockets, everything is aerodynamic

[@marcofava]

IIIDoctor_EIII the kerbal solution is More Boosters

[@alexandrearrive6199]

Think about it, how do you space? Simple. Boosters, struts, and moar boosters.

[@zj6074]

Achilleas Angelopoulos correction: With enough rockets, aerodynamics cease to matter.

[@dragonfyre8802]

But only slightly

[@coalescence4479]

I keep coming back to this as one of the best videos you've created. Amazing work, Mark!

[@MarkThrimm]

Thank you, I appreciate that. Stay spacey!

[@alexandrearrive6199]

I... I have no words. This is simply amazing. You've earned my absolute respect here Mr. Thrimm.

[@thesilentecho2528]

I agree.

[@christyprice1798]

Wait a second why arn't you go to space in the space station or do you only stay on earth?

[@hh-ck6ko]

It probably costs more than my whole space program.

[@machintrucGaming]

He is only using recoverable space craft. Only fuel and station cost. And maybe the fairing cost too

[@bartacomuskidd775]

Shouldnt your space program cost half as much?

[@dallangenesis3370]

Jea right ... freegin money keeps kerbals going and brake em (out) one time >.

[@GigawingsVideo]

Your space program is to send dragons flying close to heaven and throw people to outer space expecting the best?

[@bartacomuskidd775]

Only half a man would ignore a short joke Tyrion...

[@MarcusHouse]

Now that thing is a freaking monster Mark. Superb stuff as always my friend! At 2:57 that liftoff must have shaken the bowels of Satan himself.

[@jam_herobrine1642]

You mean shook the Kraken right? well i think you did TAKE THAT KRAKEN THATS FOR ALL MY ROCKETS YOU MESSED UP and all the kerbals you killed eh have 'em i never cared about them anyway

[@LinksSpaceProgram]

Jam_Herobrine Kraken=Satan

[@technicallydifficulties7094]

@@LinksSpaceProgram the Kraken is Satan and God simultaneously, he rips apart space stations but blessed us with the Kraken drive.

[@floo1465]

Jam_Herobrine You at least care about Jeb, Bob, Bill, and Val, right? I only care about them. I even sent a randomly generated Kerbal into out of Kerbin’s SOI with no way of returning. Well, she could probably get back into Kerbin orbit, but she has no parachute. I don’t care about the random ones.

[@DayMow1]

guys like you must be hired at the NASA dude, I can barely leave the atmosphere without any failures, good job...

[@avivfrai4858]

Oh god, you built Trevithick Dock! That looks just like one of the Elite: Dangerous Outposts.

[@MarkThrimm]

Then I guess I did a good job because I was totally trying to recreate its looks. I even had a working hangar at some point, but even with tweakscale it turned out to be too part heavy and I had to scrap it.

[@goistoist]

I thought it looked familiar. :)

[@kittyhawk2352]

I knew it looked familiar, nice catch o7

[@thetab0179]

Aviv Frai o7 Commander!

[@Silentdude__]

'Docking request denied'

[@markdavis160]

Looks like the NASA concept art of a space station with two or three space shuttles docked and an enormous cargo bay from the 1980's. Looks amazing.

[@RandomPerson-jo7cw]

6:58 "Click Left mouse button to set focus on this part"

[@gmt1]

You're improving your amazing cinematic editing with every video you release.

[@fedor4655]

If you look closely you can see it is fake, it is recorded in a game called kerbal space program. smh unsubscribed

[@XsimD]

can't believe Mark would do this. Unsubscribe

[@LordGingerBerry]

Fedor didn't notice a thing untill you pointed it out

[@pandjitandyolegowo3588]

this is disappointing

[@funkymunky7935]

The earth is flat! Wake up sheeple!

[@khamaellol6260]

Fedor I can't tell if your being sarcastic or not

[@leewonnell1192]

This was like a pretty big Space Station. So we got to remember we got to start building our ships in space. We got to have a Star Wars Galactic War. Space Station million people on board we have to just keep building. Something is 10 miles long. Maybe even three times that.

[@YelrocVideos]

Your combination of camera angles and music made the video feel epic. It's the kind of editing I expect from movies. So, professionally done. My only suggestion would be to add credits at the end of the video instead of in the video description.

[@kevinzheng7373]

But like what credits? I'm pretty sure he did everything by himself.

[@bf00262]

This freaking amazing... I go to play after a long stint off and I'm like "YES! I GOT INTO TO SPACE!" Then watch this video...Where are my crayons?

[@Overlord2328B]

The marines ate them.

[@bf00262]

@@Overlord2328B Ha! I've got colored pencils!

[@ruhgamed2216]

@@Overlord2328B lol

[@OscarSommerbo]

The thing that hit me during this video was how incredibly impractical SSTOs would be in real life, at least for vertical take offs.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Oscar Sommerbo Anithing with large wings would be impractical in real life

[@hamzaraza3178]

Better than space shuttles even though space shuttles are cooler

[@MassLox]

My station feels so inadequate after watching this

[@inf1nity_yt]

Same

[@multipletechnologies]

With something this EPIC you can't say "oh, here are the puny control towers".... Nope, those were CONTROL SPIRES!!!! Great job!

[@musicilike69]

Nice..I'd have saved on the part count by stripping out a lot of the RCS and using a tugboat in orbit to dock all the station parts. Thumbs up for blowing up the pad on launch too..Always nice when your monstrosity obliterates the pad on lift off. :)

[@glorgifyn464]

I'm liking the fact you use the heat shields as drag rather than heat shielding.

[@DarkDestinybyC]

Beautiful ! But the station is powered by nuclear power only? hmm... I think you could add some backup solar panels . But overall it's awesome !

[@leontodon4059]

She's a real beauty. Long may she reign! Well done :)

[@LBOUNCER101]

I know this video is getting very old now but I can tell you to rewatch it for inspiration for my own KSP series this video is epic

[@DezDillendger]

Красавчик... такое замутил... сколько я страдал чтобы просто на орбиту выйти, а тут такое...

[@jacobberger5233]

That is a beautiful piece of work, that is a proper space port.

[@ViktorFerenczi]

Beautiful! Really good job! Only thing I missed are the escape pods on the side of the station. (Small return capsules with just enough propulsion to enter Kerbin's atmosphere.)

[@TheJamie109]

I've made a fair share of massive rockets like the one you used. I giggle every time I launch one because it is like 10x louder than a normal rocket with 1 mammoth and boosters.

[@chrishoesel]

So much struts! Such wow! Awesome work.

[@lucas13flu]

Beautiful shots here and there. And amazing craft!

[@TeaxYT]

Fantastic video the quality is absolutely top notch. Keep up the good work!

[@bartjr2527]

You never cease to amaze me with what you can launch! I'm lucky if I can get a satellite into orbit.

[@yoshi6236]

6:58 I thought it was a secret text you put in there. I paused it and it said "Click Left mouse button to set focus on this part". Lol

[@hamdoginc1]

Great job!!! The music you used is absolutely perfect.

[@omamba5105]

Nice space station. Even better selection of music!

[@komitadjie]

*The* most Kerbal of launch vehicles. xD Well done!

[@kituh600]

damn guys ! Happy Christmas .......impressive design

[@almarman423]

Wowee! Savage build . Wish my ksp on console could handle this many parts so smooth. I get about 1 frame a second with 300 parts on the screen smh. Truly impressive build !!!!

[@James-qd3mw]

Al Marman That's your consoles fault

[@James-qd3mw]

Al Marman Besides, his PC probably costs >$1500

[@jacksondavey4438]

There should be a fairing mod just for these rockets...

[@screengames5307]

There is. It's called TweakScale

[@benjaminghysen4457]

ScreenGames can't rescale the fairings as far as i know

[@inf1nity_yt]

@@screengames5307 I wish. I had tweakscale installed at one point and they don’t resize fairings

[@awsw2159]

that was absolutely beautiful, good job man keep doing videos like this it's amazing

[@jeremylevine6052]

EPIC!!! Just like all your vids (really need those KSP Forum emoticons)!!!

[@hungnhat2602]

I like him when he launch the rocket,nice camera change mark!!

[@RandomnessCreates]

Oh hi mark

[@Aj61406]

This channel is nostalgic!

[@keksentdecker]

unbelievable!!! that is one of a kind space station that you have there :D

[@alanrobbie4851]

Happy your Krakken is asleep. Mine wakes up to stations a third this size!

[@Thargrid]

Very nice. Every time I try to build something that size I get Krakened faster than you can say "God F***ing Dammit!"

[@Eventzocker]

Oh my.... you sir are a ksp god! Amazing video, very well done! The end was a little too abrupt though, i enjoyed the music.

[@MatterBeamTSF]

Quite incredible. It must have taken hours of work and dozens of frames.

[@TheLaserlord]

If only my PC could handle more than 100 parts without chuging

[@brumby92]

its not you my dude. the game is a bit shit like that. I recently built a pretty sweet replica of Serenity but with its shuttles and rover it was 350 parts and was getting 20 FPS.

[@thatpersonyouknow3747]

TheLaserlord the games optimization is kinda crap it lets you build things the game can't handle...

[@colinp8115]

Background music is fantastic!!

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

Your next task: Smash one of those massive artificial gravity rings into it!

[@AflacMan13]

So thiiiis is how a Roraqual is built. :-P

[@williamwolfs4819]

Does part welder still work? I imagine that could knock a hundred or so parts of this, right? Fantastic station, btw. Absolutely top rate.

[@stevebenz9741]

No, I don't think he needed that. But I bet he used the Konstruction mod & Konstruction docking ports an then used KIS and some kerbals on EVA to disassemble the RCS thrusters once the station was built.

[@Crimson-Iden]

Just by looking at this I can see how similar this is to the outposts in Elite Dangerous, if thats what you were going for, great to see fellow Commanders all around! o7

[@willhaney96]

i love how he uses the heat shield as a parashoot of a sort

[@fergus247]

Did you see Nertea released a new mod? Its HUGE rockets. Cant wait for a video.

[@thetsarofall8666]

thats actually not a half bad idea(the vehicle you used to transport the parts). it could work irl if it had a sort of chamber to store the parts in that would make it more aerodynamic.

[@sharkman9k]

Thank you for your service

[@igors.oliveira5809]

Woow Impossible to dislike this video!! its fascinating to see...

[@tazepsmg]

wow what the actual hell is this :O very impressive work man!!

[@CupolaDaze]

So what's with the inflatable heat shields? you open them but then enter the atmosphere with them on the other end.

[@RiceWindu]

Andy Cox drag

[@agtshaw]

They work better as high-speed drogue chutes

[@shingojira6612]

Finaly someone who is observant

[@romist6465]

They don’t have abalator on them, they work by using aerodynamics to not murder the rocket.

[@d.thieud.1056]

Could you maybe like place a regular sized space station next to it? That way we'd see just how huge it really is

[@MarkThrimm]

16:43 here you have a Kerbal deploying inflatables :)

[@jaakumitsukai8682]

This is awesome, the only thing I feel that is missing is a solar panel array

[@maritagarcia5592]

amazing also, neat SSTO can not wait until your next video.

[@DJDashks]

I have to know. How many times did the Kraken attack the station?

[@bartacomuskidd775]

The Jiggles? Ever get those?

[@richtigmann1]

@@bartacomuskidd775 I always get those

[@generalgrievous2782]

You won't truly believe the kraken is real until you've flown a ssto plane to orbit at x4 speed going 400m/s. I have seen things...

[@terralegend7297]

Ragnarok looks legendary!

[@Watson_25]

Я ракету до луны то толковую не могу построить, а тут целая станция, ещё и какая. Ты крутой, чел!

[@shadelz3305]

You know you are building something Big when the docking pads ALONE are more than a 100 tons.

[@oxocraft]

It's fantastic

[@Kai-bm3ue]

This is just so much more than epic

[@n4psters986]

this is epic as fuck i just cant imagine how much effort was put into this

[@schattenhai7652]

Epic. I wish we would have on of these things in orbit. ^w^

[@Dr.Cosmar]

Me: inspired to build something massive in KSP by KZbinrs like this. Also me: realizes they must be using hax because whatever I build would blow up before leaving the atmosphere.

[@MrStrictlyPro]

That was incredible man! Love to see more!

[@Haze1434]

Puts Heat Shields on top of every rocket. Lands rocket backwards, negating any effect of Heat Shields. Heat Shields: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@logandarklighter]

WOW. Those launches are amazing! Particularly the "Off center" one. How the heck did you balance that truss with the round tanks for launch? Is the big "U" shaped structure for docking ships like the Flame Leviathan securely with multiple docking ports? Or multiple smaller ships (like the "Bug") for transfer of cargo modules to and from the larger ships?

[@MarkThrimm]

It is for docking large ships like Kharon and Flame Leviathan, but I don't think they will dock with multiple docking ports. I just wanted to have more than one large docking port on the station, so you could technically dock three smaller ships there or one extra huge.

[@jarediannudalo6074]

this is bonkers😳🤯 amazing man

[@indicus9075]

Those rockets are less aerodynamic than a mountain

[@YoungStudent444]

I'm from Brazil but I love your channel

[@FunguyGriffin]

This inspires me to build bigger things with mks/oks

[@prakharsrivastava3568]

Kraken really had mercy on you.

[@uCruz_]

I saw that on the thumbnail and I almost screamed

[@johnjohnson1191]

Your computer is God. GabeN does not approve, no one can have a better PC than him!

[@Ioarseri]

Wow your framerate must have been real bad looking at the station :D

[@MarkThrimm]

It's not! The station has only 326 parts and is actually useful!

[@Ioarseri]

It looks like it has a lot more! Maybe it's my potato PC that causes me too much lag :)

[@JonathanLeitschuh]

How on earth did you keep the part count that low?

[@SeedlingNL]

Big parts :D

[@jokesonyou7667]

Jonathan Leitschuh tweakscale

[@kaz6617]

The Rocket-Equivalent of Stratolaunch XD

[@Winner8501]

This must be the most Kerbal thing I have ever seen.

[@pappashango100]

beautiful video

[@justiceoswald820]

You have earned your like and sub that was awesome to watch but I hate you because now I'm getting the game and letting it consume my life keep up the awesome work mate

[@rusinol2137]

LEGEND how in the world Kraken did not used his magical power of shaking space and did nit destroyed it

[@Maddinhpws]

I wonder how accurate is that whole thing in terms of friction if applied to the real world? The reusable construct looks like it should break apart when reentering the atmosphere.

[@MarkThrimm]

It definitely should. Unfortunately KSP does not allow multiple parents for any given part (meaning that you can't make a closed frame) so the only way to get around that is by using struts of different kind. It adds sturdiness to your creations but takes away realistic looks quite often.

[@PLUTONIUM1228]

most epic music ever

[@SLIMJIMNIM]

Can't wait for KSP 2 >>

[@RBsRealm]

Nice use of mechjeb.

[@lucabanks6581]

Geez what has jeb been up to lately

[@acanadianderg4035]

It's epic level is over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nsd_nebulousdia1366]

every time i see this kind of videos about ksp makes me want to play more ksp but upon playing it i soon want to quit because i cant do such thing lol

[@starman4346]

this might make space stations viable in ksp lol

[@thesaturdaytechchannelwith553]

It would be amazing if you could walk around and see the internals of the space station

[@Airixsas]

I dont want to even imagine the cost of all these things and the framerate while flying and docking