Can You Use Only One Engine to Get to Moho in Kerbal Space Program?

[@ReidCaptain]

I have another vote for you guys: “Spark” engines only, or attempting to break the air speed record?

[@axolotl707]

Breaking the air record cause your Always in Space so staying in the atmosphere might be interesting

[@tTRITUS]

i would say airspeed because i think that spark engines would just be a less interesting "only 0.625m parts" mission

[@wayacrazy.]

Spark engines only

[@indigo4710]

Air speed definitely!

[@Neardrop]

Air record

[@aaphule]

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*

[@rebel6301]

honestly mad props to him for using the *exact same engine* for two rockets

[@rebel6301]

i struggle to get to the mun without cheats and this guy manages to get to moho with *one engine*

[@nether_bat]

Watch one thud to Dres by stratzenblitz75

[@AbsoluteHuman]

@@nether_bat that was a crazy grind!

[@nether_bat]

@@AbsoluteHuman I genuinely don’t know what you mean

[@SlicedHackedAndGrinded]

736 years and 95 days in a near empty and lonely void and Val is absolutely THRILLED the entire way

[@doctorhealsgood5456]

Val is just built different

[@kremink]

just to be stranded in a small cramped capsule with a parashute obstructing it

[@antonandersson5899]

Not even being able to EVA on moho while waiting for rescue makes her even more impressive

[@CapybaraDevourer]

@@doctorhealsgood5456 val is the female jebediah

[@Pyxis10]

Thrilled, hone conpletley and utterly mad, same difference.

[@tomaszpruffer5014]

every experienced KSP player : *watches in terror and amazement*

[@skyler948]

..for 736 years

[@furriesinouterspaceUnited]

And SP2

[@gaping_moose]

The amount of anxiety is just barely outweighed by the entertainment

[@gamingforfun1295]

Never heard anyone call the R.A.P.I.E.R. the CR-7

[@Jack-dd3kn]

@@skyler948 I didn't even notice the mission timer wow

[@RIPM201]

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

[@threecheslch7990]

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.

[@c.jwhite]

imagine being val here, stuck in that ship for 736 YEARS

[@coffemug630]

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

[@LeoDePanoMan]

Could you maybe try to make a rocker with every fuel tank and make it work with engines?

[@coolgun9547]

good concept, but kinda boring

[@邵奕虹]

that will be too easy for him

[@thehobbist5544]

How about he has to use every fuel tank in the game while ALSO using every single engine

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

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.

[@Jack-dd3kn]

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.

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

probably, if you were a better player than I. I'm currently working on the spaceplane method, and having pretty good luck!

[@Pribumi1]

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

[@Speedwars]

I sure hope so

[@someguywithatophat7599]

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

[@snottytoe6957]

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.

[@Dominion69420]

I'd say 10 at most (capsule, twin boar, 4 decouples and 4 fuel tanks, 2 tanks at a time)

[@snottytoe6957]

@@Dominion69420 WIth gravity assists and the perfect ascent, im pretty sure just the twin boar is enough.

[@Dominion69420]

@@snottytoe6957 I mean with a good amount yea I was just saying for a more direct style

[@johnmielke5840]

@@snottytoe6957 a 3 part design can go particularly far if I remember correctly

[@spooderman4008]

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.

[@JonesCrimson]

You casually explaining as pure chaos engulfs the launchpad with wonky cranes and cars to grab loads from your other cars.

[@johnadler6987]

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

[@Eis_]

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.

[@comrade_Cappybara]

I was about half way through the video when I realized "oh, Valentina isn't making it back home."

[@kadenbonnot8853]

Flying into the sun, but the engine/engines are on the top of the rocket

[@babusseus1105]

“Oh my” is what I think every time you make an “adjustment haha. But that’s the kerbal way: if it works, it works!

[@glassramen]

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.

[@haassteambraker9959]

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.

[@gamingforfun1295]

I'd reccomend the kerbal engineer mod because it gives you info for delta-v and periapsis and apoapsis when the game bugs out

[@Rudytuesdayspodcast]

your videos are cool, subscribing

[@cdexswzaqcde1]

wow you literally go through hell to give us this great content video. congrats.

[@celamelamin3961]

this is, and I can't stress this enough, the most insane way of doing this. NASA needs this man

[@Joeseanag24]

Reid would probably double the entire NASA budget lol

[@person___9]

yeah he can help their space junk problem by “just adding more engines” that will lower their “aypoapsis”

[@First-Last_name]

Flat earthed feeling 10 seconds in ......

[@gawain0]

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)).

[@Pyxis10]

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.

[@kyteluna]

casual 736 years of flight

[@chernobylkid3273]

Thank you for these videos, they have gotten me through though times.

[@NemNess1125]

What about one where you’re not allowed to retry anything? One planet, one try.

[@Commentingstick]

7:13 "local rocket engineer saves a rocket engine from becoming a space debree"

[@ledvapour6937]

I'm completely lost and have no clue what you're trying to do at this point, but I'm here for it.

[@dkaloger5720]

This is the most cowboy move I have ever seen in KSP

[@releca52]

You should make a really good boat in kerbal space program

[@abhilashasinha5186]

1:48 THE VECTOR

[@abhilashasinha5186]

is the most powerful

[@alertlucasalexander9994]

no it isnt, you can check

[@youhangaroundforaliving]

​@@abhilashasinha5186 mammoth is 4000kn,vector is 1000kn

[@Betta7776]

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!

[@clicky101]

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. :)

[@bigprojects2560]

Best pick I got off epic so far

[@derAlphabet]

Well, recovering that engine shocked me 😅 Amazing

[@jacobkrout1627]

for some reason, i ws thinking that you were going to do this challenge with one launch as well.

[@CPTNjames]

3:37 how have you not been attacked by the kraken when this is “good enough” in your eyes

[@odd_man_317]

the amount of times this man says "youcan see here" is a little aggravating

[@doodsepik]

I’m watching this at my school

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

This had to be one of the most beautifully ridiculous thing I've ever seen, especially with the cranes.

[@xander2853]

“852 m/s is the most expensive burn I’ll have to make” *laughs in experienced player*

[@zachm9202]

I can imagine the Kerbin flipping off the Moho mountain as it flew by

[@kamrankamal9429]

Forget rockets and planes anymore. This video has inspired me to make hoverboats

[@FleaMcP]

I love your boat and car designs, please upload them.

[@_thresh_]

One engine, 2 rockets, 736 years and that’s all it takes to land on moho!

[@mitt_3]

Dude ur vids deserve more attention!

[@craigstenning1975]

That was CRAZY ON HOW U GOT THE SINGLE ENGINE FROM SPACE TO A NEW ROCKE5

[@1mariomaniac]

Just a short 7 century scenic flight to Moho!

[@monkeyontheboat837]

Land on Minmus (and try to come back) with the smallest engine

[@FleaMcP]

This isn't SSTO, this is SSTMo

[@ReidCaptain]

Lol

[@coolgun9547]

*"basically just: kerbal space program but in debt"*

[@zodiakgames]

Going the extra mile to bring the engine back to the station… respec

[@nbrugger2]

Make a plane that can fly in space!

[@theholypeanut8193]

That's called an SSTO.

[@michanowak3001]

That miniature makes me feel of space laser from Bond movie.

[@ndh1238]

I can’t even get to space this dude uses 1 engine for 2 rockets

[@p0isoned.0]

Only a 9km mun assist? Imagine not getting within 20m of the mountains for your gravity assist

[@judet2992]

Who da fuq calls the RAPIER the CR-7?

[@jandePoreNaire]

Well, mammoth engine are four engines, not one...

[@TlalocTemporal]

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!

[@1mariomaniac]

@@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)

[@Ale_ssandro]

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.

[@JackalRacingNetwork]

EJ_SA did this on a daily, even built launchpads

[@mariasirona1622]

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.

[@PoorlyWindow549]

Next Challange: Ounly with RSC

[@lincolnv9261]

I can’t be the only one who was outwardly confused by him referring to the Rapier, as the CR-7.

[@acompletelynormalhuman6392]

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

[@thehobbist5544]

I am convinced that this dude is just NileRed playing ksp

[@person___9]

nilered is smart though

[@Kaiserinwalton1871]

@@person___9💀

[@dannypipewrench533]

Kerbal Ground Services and Aircraft Handling

[@Live-Paradox]

Yo the end, great meme, happens to me all the time

[@beez1717]

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.

[@Jimmy-xx2co]

Have fun doing that while im safe on the ground.

[@GlaceonStudios]

Honestly, the trajectory that you used was somewhat like BepiColombo or Messenger.

[@Totally_Bonkers]

local man invents ssto but to the extreme

[@manicopossum]

go to the hardest planet to get to and colonize it with three rockets or 1 space shuttle

[@he8535]

You are reposting my childhood

[@quoniam426]

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

[@guywholikescats]

next challenge: kerbal space program irl

[@ReidCaptain]

Ez

[@ArwinaThePlanet]

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

[@chilidog2469]

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

[@arandomstragnger2807]

I think yup should try to make a rocket that can go to moho with the largest engines only

[@schrimblo]

if you dont get scatterer im going to sob

[@robsterlobster7345]

A suggestion would be to use onion or asparagus staging to greatly increase delta v

[@1mariomaniac]

Normally I'd agree, but I don't think that'd really help here on account of the singular engine.

[@IMTHESVJ]

This dudes brain is crazy

[@bearsgeography8330]

RESCUE VAL. PLEASEEEEE

[@MrNathanbrand1987]

Only took 736 years without a return 🤣

[@xrystiandreicerda2268]

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)

[@xWatexx]

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.

[@judelong4089]

Why the heck did the mission take 400 years you made valentena sit in there for that long bruh you a monster

[@theholypeanut8193]

Meanwhile Danny2464 spaghettihies them and other horrific things.

[@user-insaynebokoyt]

Please, for the love of the kraken, call the CR-7 a rapier PLEASE

[@Something-7-v9w]

He really meant ONE engine...

[@falcon_exe3582]

Can you go to Eloo with EVERY pices in the game ?!

[@Jazkal-V420]

Wouldn't this one engine rocket be an SSTO?

[@AhoyYoutube]

This is the video he was making

[@michalsniadala1667]

nice can't wait for da next one

[@Spiz103]

I'm worried I'm missing something - but would asparagus staging of radially attached fuel tanks not be the obvious choice?

[@TheAbyssalStorm]

I was half expecting you to use a Kraken engine. You know, that little glitch with the grabbers(?), I’m sure that counts. Then again, you probably did that before, and I’m not aware of it 😅.

[@hoswgert6873]

Got an idea for ksp vid: can you get to mun without any techs?