Flying By Every Planet | KSP Outer Planets Mod

[@Jump_Immortal]

The way the music becomes all mystical when the probe soars past the gas gaints is amazing.

[@justlazlo3658]

plock and dres: *im a joke for you?*

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Haha, that's funny. But anyway, the reason I chose not to go to those bodies was because in the real world, large bodies are classified as dwarf planets if they're smaller than The Moon. By that logic, I felt that Dres and Plock weren't planets either, even though it isn't explicitly stated they aren't as far as I know, because they're based on Pluto and Ceres, and they're smaller than The Mun. I have been playing with The Minor Planets Expansion recently, which is a mod that adds kerbalized dwarf planets and asteroids into the OPM system. In the future, when I'm better at the game, I wouldn't mind remaking this mission with the plans to fly by every body in the enhanced Kerbolar system I would get with those two mods.

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 How about this challenge: fly by these 13 bodies in this order, flying by each body ONLY ONCE. Moho, Eve, Kerbin, Duna, Dres, Jool, Sarnus, Urlum, Neidon, Plock, Havous, Mracksis, Ervo, then return to Kerbin.

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

@@sapphoenixthefirebird5063 Sounds like quite the challenge, off the top of my head those first 3 would be incredibly difficult sense to get down to moho’s level takes a lot of energy, and to get back out with gravity assists you’re almost forced to use an Eve assist once to get down and another to get back up, not impossible with enough fuel though, another problem would be a inclinations, with the gas giants and large terrestrial planets it’s less of an issue because of their size, sense you can pretty easily change your inclination on the flyby, but for Duna, Moho, and the dwarf planets, it’s logistically impossible to change your inclination using the bodies’ gravity, so again you’re forced to use fuel. It would be a huge headache but very rewarding to pull off, maybe I’ll come back to it one day when I inevitability get back into KSP.

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 Another challenge mission I wanna see is a grand tour (starting off with blasting off from Kerbin to Duna) of each planet's moons and the planet itself to Holst's The Planets suite. The order is Mars (Duna), Venus (Eve), Mercury (Moho), Jupiter (Jool), Saturn (Sarnus), Uranus (Urlum), Neptune (Neidon), followed by Pluto (Plock) by Colin Matthews and Earth (Kerbin) by Hiroyuki Kayo.

[@bradlyjean9666]

​@@tibbittsaerospace201REMAKE PLEASE😭😭😭

[@Heliocentriciv]

This is so underrated, like seriously I can make a 700 part craft and have it only be a one way Jool trip, the fact this is closer to 50 parts blows my mind

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

Gravity assists are definitely the hardest thing to master in this game. The only thing I can really do is a Tylo gravity assist to capture at Jool, but that's basically a necessity 😂

[@LukasBecker-u1q]

@@CHRB-nn6qpthey are literally hella easy

[@hendrikpoggenpoel4508]

Wow. Just wow. The thought of those consecutive gravity assists just astonish me. Especially the ones they did with Voyager 1 and 2 back in the 70's I think. Just the fact that the planets had to be aligned like that. And the amount of math and physics that goes into that blows my mind. But really good video. I'm not confident enough to use gravity assits in KSP yet but I think you just convinced me to learn how to do gravity assists.

[@Blickothy]

It always amazes me the minimal about of change of velocity in an interplanetary orbit can allow you to reach every celestial body in the game, phenomenal.

[@TheWizardGamez]

end of mission: everyone on kerbin who helped make the probe have great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids

[@diegomurua4798]

Eh kerbals do live 400 years..

[@CapitalTeeth]

It's always surreal when the flyby is just close enough to the atmosphere that it kinda looks like it's falling right down onto the planet

[@StyggeOrd08]

fact that this mission lasted over half a MILLENIUM is impressive

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Sort of lol, took that long to exit the solar system entirely, I tried to do it in more reasonable times for the assists themselves

[@jacoblee8989]

I am a bit late but a couple of those gravity assists made it look like you are about to slam into the planet and you en up curving around it, Great video though

[@ooflespoofle3691]

Hats off to you, that was awesome!

[@KingZAstronaut]

This is really cool considering ive only attempted a gravity assist once didnt work out well but hey this is just an amazing video ive never seen this is really cool

[@SuperRAPIT]

You are REACH, but you have KSP planets. Good work!

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

0:59 throw* before anybody beats me to it 😎 Edit: You also may notice on the of the Eve flybys the solar pannels fold back in even though these solar pannels are not capable of that, the reason being the recording of that particular flyby got corrupted and I had to load the quick save and re-record it, in doing so the craft must have reset and folded up the solar pannels for whatever reason, only noticed afterward, ksp is weird like that lol Its also worth mentioning the mission did now take 500 years to complete that was the probe exiting the solar system. I wanted to do it in a semi reasonable amount of time without needing to wait lifetimes in parking orbits so the longest time the craft was dormant was waiting for the second jupiter assist for about 50 years. I would estimate from launch to final flyby took no more than 75 years.

[@sparkelstr2418]

I just got recommended your video, is it possible to learn this skill?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

@@sparkelstr2418 of corse it is, I could go into a million ways on how to do it bust the best thing is really to just grab a mk 1 command module and a nuclear engine and just play around with encounters, you’ll get a feel for it eventually to pull off more crazy shit

[@sparkelstr2418]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 I know how to get encounters and go interplanetary, i mean how do you line up encounters in such a way

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

@@sparkelstr2418that’s the thing, it’s hard to explain, there’s plenty of tutorials out there but I’ve found it’s best to get just an encounter like normal and try to figure out how to get it to send you into different orbits, once you understand how to send yourself higher or lower you can try to chain it up with other encounters, it just takes practice to get a feel for it really

[@sparkelstr2418]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 I understand, ill try

[@chrismickle918]

and dres no wait dres and plock

[@sparkelstr2418]

Dres? Is that a new planet?

[@aarondanielcastro1698]

Orbital mechanics should be seen as an e-sport

[@raspyextreme]

Wallah

[@attenia]

xD yeah lets make a contest in ksp - who can flyby all planets in the shortest amount of time !

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

Best ksp video ever

[@negsos]

we need another remake with dwarf objects included... this is a masterpiece (also a big fan first time watched that video was like 3 years ago ig i continuously watched it cuz its amazing that's why i want a new one)

[@Tearcane]

Needs more views, underated

[@Countryballsandstuff999]

Certified Voyager Moment Jool to Neidon

[@vojtechjancura682]

Amazing video! And the planets look glorious! Could you tell me on which version are you playing?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Thanks so much! The first half of the video was recorded on 1.8.1, but I later switched to 1.9.1 because I was dealing with a glitch, but that didn’t effect the visual mods other than the fact that shadows are casted by the rings of Sarnus and Urlum in 1.9.1. The visual mods I used can be found in the description.

[@vojtechjancura682]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 thanks!

[@RealEmerald]

I FINALLY got this mod to work. Do you want to know why it wasn’t working before? I was missing 1 SINGLE FLIE that was very important for Kopernicus to work properly... A SINGLE GODDAMN FILE!!! ITS WAS JUST ONE, count em, ONE FILE! But it’s working now so, woohoo?

[@kingdededethegod5313]

Very good video. So far with OPM I've just sent rovers to all the bodies. The manouevre node maker is really finicky with such high distances and precision (especially plock). The views make up for it, especially sarnus. How long did this video take you to make?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

KingDededeTheGod Thank you! It took me about two weeks, but that was because I kept running into glitches where advanced controls would lock up so I couldn’t create maneuver nodes, even though I should have the connection to be able to do so. I’d say my total time working on the video is about 3 or 4 hours on the mission and 2 hours editing the video.

[@kspnerd2474]

I’m impressed I think I am going to get the OPM mod again!

[@TheEpicDragonCat]

If the voyager probe. Also flew by Mercury, and also took several 100 years!!

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

I hope you liked the video :) something I’d like to put out there now that you mention it is a majority of the mission time was spent flying past Neidon and out of the system because the speed was a measly 2500 or so m/s, the small scale of the system makes it difficult to reach the astronomical speeds of real life craft that have taken similar trajectories. From the launch to the final flyby I would estimate to be 75 years or so, still a staggering time but nowhere near the 500 it took the craft to completely exit the system.

[@TinyFoxTom]

Error 404: Dres not found.

[@kimavids1126]

voyager 1 in 3 mins basically

[@sadfrog1192]

This is really impressive dude, but i wonder if theres a way to do a grand tour in a shorter timespan, or even just a mission like one of the voyagers, visiting the outer planets in a relatively similar timespan to voyager.

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

there for sure is, 500 years is a huge exaggeration because that's how long it took to leave the heliosphere, the only part I could optimize more just based off intuition and not a ton of math is going from Jupiter to Jupiter, that parking orbit lasted about 50 years, as I needed to wait for the outer planets to get in a sort of golden ratio-like position, if I launched initially later on I wouldn't have to wait for that to happen but I wanted to account for the inner portion taking a lot longer so I gave myself wiggle room

[@skytwoplayz9649]

Poor Dres... he was forgotten again.

[@thenoobypro790]

Dres dosnt exist

[@KingdomOfSaulo]

What's Dres? OOOH RIGHT the new planet they added on KSP 2. This is KSP 1, Dres doesn't exist here.

[@Joshs4stro]

forgot dres lol

[@tou-fpv2952]

Very cool video, but I have a cuestion, I'm still starting in ksp and I wan to install the outer planets mod, but how do you know what is the able forming from the sun, kerbin and sarnus in which you can get to the planet

[@tou-fpv2952]

Sorry I meant angle

[@tou-fpv2952]

And I think that viewers will like if you did build tutorials in which you build ships capables of doing the voyages that you do, like going to sarnus, neidon, urlum...

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Tou - FPV The transfer window for sarnus in my experience should be roughly 90 degrees, but it isn’t a big deal if that isn’t completely accurate. Sarnus has a very large sphere of influence, so with a bit of tweaking you’re bound to get an encounter, it really helps of you set Sarnus as a target and watch the closest approach nodes. I’ve thought about trying a tutorial series, and I wouldn’t mind doing one if enough people request it, but I’m not confident in my ability to explain things, so I’d rather get a friend who is new to the game to play first and try to explain it to them to see what works and what doesn’t.

[@tou-fpv2952]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 thanks, today I made my first sarnus mission, I sent a rover to slate and it was a total success, thanks for your help, but I have another cuestion: do you use a mod that provides parts to build rockets that can get so far away en the kerbol system, if you do use some part mods pleas tell me which, thanks

[@tou-fpv2952]

@@tibbittsaerospace201i think what you said about a tutorial is a good idea

[@skytwoplayz9649]

Honestly This is better than the original song. I dont like the video on the OG song. This was AMAZING.

[@negsos]

hey also may i recreate the video with the same song? but the difference is that no any graphics mod or avp or eve just stock textures?

[@negsos]

will give you credits ofc

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

I mean yeah I didn’t copyright the idea lol, you don’t need to give me credit do what you want to do

[@Evan-gg1tk]

I want to do something similar to this mission. Can you explain how to line up gravity assists like this. I already know the basics of gravity assists but I don't know how to plan them.

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Sure, I’ll try my best but it's difficult to explain text so bare with me. From Moho to Jool it didn't really require much planning at all. Because of how close the planets are it was really easy to just either wait an orbit, or make my gravity assist send me higher or lower, in order to make my orbital period faster or slower, to arrive at a planet at the right time. The tricky part was past Jool, obviously it's kind of boring to slowly make my way past the planets, I wanted to fling myself really fast, passing the planets in quick succession. The way I went about that was after the first Jool assist, I saved. I then time warped to see when the planets would line up (basically when all the gas giants were in a mostly straight line, it happened about 50 years after the first Jool assist in my case) and I slightly burned to change how long my orbital period is, and through trial and error I eventually got myself to be in the same sport Jool was when the planets line up. From there it was basically just pulling back a bow and aiming, large bodies like Jool can generate a ton of speed and you can easily reach Kerbol's escape velocity, so all you need to do is slightly alter where you're being sent so you'll cross another planet's path, when you get closer to that planet alter where it's going to fling you to get to the next planet and so on. Hope that makes sense, if you have any other questions feel free to ask.

[@Evan-gg1tk]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 Thank you for the help. You explained this very well!

[@appadat9289]

Amaizing Video.

[@staticsfs6823]

So underrated

[@robquinn9999]

Awesome stuff.

[@Dying2play12]

Welp, that was worth a subscribe and like... Damn. Wish it was slower, closer fly by's

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

I’ll keep slower in mind for if I ever get back into making videos but closer is a little more difficult as it’s controlled and dictates where the probe goes 😭

[@protactinium733]

Nice, could you maybe use RTGs and science units for more realistic probe? Because Kerbol/Sun's light was too weak to power solar panels at jool and beyond solar system.

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

There actually are RTGs on the craft under the dish, but in this case they were redundant as the craft can hold enough power to preform every necessary maneuver on its own beyond jool. The reason I didn't put science units on was because there isn't really a point, the video was to demonstrate how I went about preforming these orbital maneuvers, not to make the craft realistic or recreate a real world probe, so the science parts are obsolete. I'm glad you enjoyed the video but I likely will not be adding science parts to my probes in the future unless the video is taken in career or science mode or I just feel like it.

[@Ludspo]

THIS HAS ONLY 200 VIEWS!

[@TheBobmaker]

WHAT?! ONLY 200 VIEWS?!

[@nathangallup6411]

How did you plan out the assists and overall trajectory?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Most of it was just trial and error, it's pretty easy to bounce around the inner system in a relatively short amount of time with not much planning at all because of how close the planets are. The outer system was a bit more tricky though. About 50 years after the first Jool assist the gas giants were lined up so that I could just assist off of each of them and accelerate, which let me ignore efficient transfer windows. I used the first Jool assist to position myself so I would be roughly near Jool when the planets were in the right spots, after that I just sort of did small burns and time warped to see where that put me. For example when the time is right I could be at the lowest point in my orbit, and I would miss Jool, so I would do small adjustments and hope that over a longer period of time I would drift into the right spot by making my orbital period longer or shorter. Once I was able to encounter Jool it was pretty easy to get to the rest of the planets because I was traveling so quickly that my orbital paths were almost just straight lines.

[@shamboozles4209]

Wow that's amazing! Just wondering, what mod adds the aurora borealis to dune?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

I believe that would be astronomers visual enhancements

[@AlphaSpaceKSP]

I love music

[@richmountain1128]

You also forgot Dres. But seriously, who visits Dres anyways?

[@PlanetVenuz]

Would you look at that, My favourite song

[@muhammadarham9204]

You got a sub I got you to 99 subs

[@kerbals1620]

Good video song IS completly for IT byť you forgot obout 'Plock' plock is forgoten ;( like Pluto

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Forgot Dres as well then :( it was intentional though, I treated it as a minor planet just because it would have been WAYYYYY more difficult to pull off those voyager style consecutive flybys at the end

[@temitelko4413]

good video I do also Ksp videos like this

[@boy11_3]

You miss plock why

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Plock is a dwarf planet

[@kylietravers3466]

Can You Do All Flybys Of Any Planet In Our Solar System and The OPM 1- Mercury 2- Venus 3- Earth 4- Mars 5- Sarnus 6- Jupiter 7- Saturn 8- Urlum 9- Uranus 10- Neptune 11- Pluto 12 Neidon 13 Plock

[@henryviii2091]

Amazing! I have a question though, how do you get the transfer windows for interplanetary travel? I looked up the internet but couldn't find anything.

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Normal transfer windows are just sort of things I remember from my head, look up “KSP transfer windows chart” on google and go to images, some valuable information is bound to come up. Weirder ones, like transferring from Jool to Sarnus is mostly just trial and error, and Eve to Moho I just got lucky, didn’t even mean to line it up that easily. I also responded to a few other people on how I did the Voyager style assists if that’s what your interested in. If you want me to get more specific I can, what exactly are you having troubles with?

[@henryviii2091]

@@tibbittsaerospace201 Oh I'm sorry, my head was all over the place and I forgot to delete the comment, because at first for some reason I thought this was Real Solar System 😂😂. But then I realised it was not, I must have mistaken the videos or something, because I watched this video and one with RSS. I was interested in getting the transfer windows for the real planets, cause doing all this assist stuff is way beyond my capabilities even in stock ksp 😂it's really impressive how you can pull these missions off.

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

@@henryviii2091 oh, haha, no worries

[@chrismickle918]

You forgot dres BRUUUUUUUUUUUUH

[@John_Gillman]

what did you use to calculate the trajectory for this?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Just went off feel for the gas giants, when you do it enough you can time warp and kind of see where everything is going to be and plan accordingly

[@Jump_Immortal]

you literally crashed into eve on the first flyby. *Mission failed, we'll get em next time.*

[@thecatgod280]

So voyager but more?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Yeah basically

[@alexk4058]

Where is Plock? No dwarf planets?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

No, no dwarf planets :(

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Why no Dres or Plock flyby?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Dwarf planets

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

​@@tibbittsaerospace201 That's dwarfplanetphobic!!! (Joke)

[@Dhaefbjytr46h7]

Jool-Jupiter Sarnus-Saturn Urlum-Uranus Neidon-Neptune ...?

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Yes, those are KSP and OPM equivalents of our gas giants.

[@purusarth]

O then 1 there 10 again 0 ___? Thanks

[@tibbittsaerospace201]

Sorry, could you reiterate? I’m not sure what you’re asking.