Kerbal Space Program - Satellite Inteceptor

[@williamdetempolivre]

1st Try - 150 Meters 2nd Try - 150 Meters 3rd Try - 40 Meters 4th Try - 100 Meters 5th Try - 90 Meters 6th Try - 70 Meters 7th Try - 70 Meters 8th Try - Confirm Hit, Target not destroyed 9th Try - 4 Meters 10th Try - Confirm Hit, Target not destroyed 11th Try - Confirm Hit, Target not destroyed 12th Try - Confirm Hit, Target destroyed (confirmed by Scott)

[@no3ironman11100]

williambindarnoni The 3rd try.. Always the 3rd...

[@Markus9705]

williambindarnoni Scott Manley's own way.

[@kostyapesterew1068]

Spoiler?

[@williamdetempolivre]

Well... let's say it's not...

[@ianjines4134]

William de Tempo Livre t

[@cemerson]

On forward-swept wings: The ASK-13 glider has this solely to stop the wing roots going through the person in the back seat! Keeps centre of lift/pressure in the right place. It also has lots of dihedral to provide extra stability as a result.

[@skoogy7]

I was watching these videos years ago, and now i started flying glider recently. Training in an ASK-13 and thought exactly the same while i was rewatching it. Cool to think i might have read this info many years ago! :D

[@MaxArceus]

Make 2 ISSes in the same orbit, but going opposite ways >:3

[@ThePizzabrothersGaming]

MaxArceus well then you go ahead and make the launcher for the inefficient launch direction

[@petersmythe6462]

ThePizzabrothers Gaming That isn't that tough. In Kerbal, the difference is about 350 m/s.

[@keco185]

Why can't KSP have a slow motion option

[@Sparrow420]

keco185 theres a mod for it.

[@coryman125]

Species: ALRE has some interesting evolution. It's basically natural selection and adaptive radiation, starting off with one little species and eventually many interesting and unique ones. It doesn't have much for messing around with them though, other than changing mutation rates and reviving extinct species. It also doesn't have a planet, just a little area of land.

[@CarterDDana]

Scott! Great video! My Grandfather actually worked on the Thor missiles during the 60s-70s, the Thor missiles aren't intercontinental but they can make it to space when launched upward. They would build them, load them up with nuclear warheads, and launch them at Russian spy satellites. So, for future reference, just use a nuke mod ;) Thank you for the awesome videos! Btw, this was all really top secret until I believe President Truman bragged about it on TV. It was also pretty unreliable in terms of funding, so some weeks he would have 10 workers, the next few weeks it would just be him. They would also be pretty unreliable rockets. Sometimes the rockets would come out of the silos and have no more vertical velocity but start drifting sideways. They had to have a technician there ready to blow it up if stuff like that happened. Then they would have to evacuate nearby cities due to the toxic cloud of rocket fuel (this was at Vandenberg). He ended up quitting after getting fired due to budget cuts then being rehired the next day. He wanted job security. XD Anyways. Sorry for the story, thought you may like it if you end up reading it. Thank you for the awesome content sir!

[@scottmanley]

***** LH2/LOX is only one type or rocket fuel - you should read this book about the history of rocket fuel web.gccaz.edu/~wkehowsk/ignition.pdf

[@CarterDDana]

Scott Manley you're the best

[@CarterDDana]

***** The only payload it mentions was thermonuclear warheads, that was the rockets sole purpose, to deliver nuclear warheads. We had no technical ability to program a rocket to slam into a spy sat in the early 60s. We took the area-of-effect route.

[@CarterDDana]

***** That's not how energy transfer works. If anything, the nuclear blast would have a greater radius in space because there is no atmosphere or houses or other objects or terrain to get in its way. Think of the sun, there is no oxygen between us and the sun yet you still get a sunburn.

[@CarterDDana]

***** I don't understand how citing evidence is a bad thing, that's something that should become automatic once you enter a debate. I am giving you proof to what I am saying and you're ignoring it. And a "shotgun" is probably the dumbest thing you can do, space is massive, good chance it'll miss, if you get those shotgun pellets stuck in an orbit, no telling what a thousand of those things would do over the course of 50 years. There's a reason they don't test stuff like that. And I'm sorry you couldn't understand what I was trying to convey with the sunburn, I thought you would be able to make the connection but I was wrong. Lastly, if a nuclear bomb destroys you in space, why would it not destroy a satellite, especially a satellite not protected by the anti-emp coating that you talked about even though they didn't know the effects of a massive electromagnetic pulse at that time. That technology couldn't have come about at that time. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings but it just seems unacceptable to tolerate someone who ignores facts even though they are a click away.

[@leerman22]

If you have mechjeb then just use the maneuver node planner and set the tolerance to 0.001m/s.

[@PTNLemay]

Your crazy game idea sounds a bit like a variation on Spore. I think everyone can agree that was a game with a lot of potential that was not fully... tapped. So yeah, hopefully one day another studio will try their hand at it.

[@mustachemonster124]

Why not build the interceptor with extra tiny pieces that decouple that way it increases the probability you will hit the satellite? Sort of like a hole bunch of buckshot when you hit it, but buckshot that hits at orbital velocity. That way when you're less than 100 m off you still have a decent chance of hitting the satellite?

[@amperzand9162]

Yeah, in practice you should probably carry the equivalent of a flak warhead or claymore, use a small explosive charge to throw a large quantity of metal ball bearings or something around, you only need one or two small hits at those velocities to total a satellite.

[@recapolythor]

OMG i am going to have nightmares of Kessler syndrome, thanks Mr. Manley for the video!:D

[@unnamedchannel845]

Hi, Scott, I`d love to see more videos about Realism Overhaul.

[@General12th]

Why not just launch the buster straight up and have the satellite smash into it at orbital speed? The timing would have to be *perfect*, obviously, but our rocket scientists are pretty good at rocket science. The buster wouldn't need more than three or four km/s of deltaV to climb up to the satellite's altitude, meaning it could use only a single stage. Give it some reaction control and a cheap computer to correct for aerodynamic problems and you've got yourself a pretty simple surface-to-space missile. If it misses, it should aim for somewhere unpopulated. Re-entry heating will *not* destroy the missile as it returns to the surface.

[@andytroo]

***** just use a bucket of sand :p

[@General12th]

Andrew Hill Indeed. Collisions at those speeds release way more energy than most chemical reactions. So there would be no need to carry a warhead; the rocket frame itself will do all the necessary damage.

[@petersmythe6462]

***** Well, furthermore, you need not be a rocket-scientist. Just go up 20 seconds early and then adjust. surely, when your payload is tiny and the payoff is so significant from a millitary perspective, you can spare the 200 m/s of DV.

[@stinkyfungus]

+Jordan Shank no joke, the exo atmospheric kill vehicle on the SM3 missile that USS Lake Erie shwacked that satellite with carried no explosive warhead. it was purely a kinetic energy setup.

[@99GamingXx]

255.4 meters. @ 5:15

[@krustysock8611]

"Five O Said ""Freeze !"" But I gone none, Canna tell them that I really never had a gun" Classic tune. I'm Impressed Scott.

[@scottmanley]

Krusty Sock Have you seen my record collection?

[@richfiles]

I did this with Bill once... He never had time to be dissatisfied with the results of his rescue. Thank God for quick saves! :P

[@birdmun]

Re: evolution game. You might look at Evolva. It comes from 2000. Still watching your clip. The game you suggest sounds a bit like populous only different. Maybe you should talk to Peter Molyneux. :D

[@mcdonaldsnapkin6823]

I love how you play all these space games and people are asking you to play these space games, but i actually found you when you were doing the papers please series. Best series you've done by far! I would love if you could go back and do another playthrough

[@Moesel83]

Kerbal Alarm Clock has the option to set closest point alarms. It shows you the encounter distance down to a few meters. You could try that readout to manage your intercept.

[@TheMathMog93]

That cloud mod looks great at re-entering! Not so much the redish dawn. Would be cool to see an impact with bigger objects as you mentioned! Any chance that you will take a look at Rimworld again? Been quite a while since you played it, and it is making great progress!

[@SuperSMT]

This video is a perfect example of just how fast satellites go!! If anyone ever asks why gravity turns are necessary, show them this!

[@RyushoYosei]

I know mechjeb does have a "Closest approach to target" Feature to it, that probably could of helped, as using it I have gotten mechjeb to match velocities within around 20 or so meters of the target. Oh nevermind you find it.

[@LeonardoDaVinci01]

The pink clouds look fun!

[@63Hayden]

Maybe you could step thing up a bit by installing RSS, launching two satellites in opposite equatorial orbits, and have them collide at 14km/s.

[@scottmanley]

Bill Kerman The big problem is that as the speeds get higher the objects just step through each other, that's why I was thrusting away from it to reduce encounter speed. at 30fps the objects were moving 50m per frame.

[@gigabic7487]

Try .05x speed using cheat engine if you want to do that

[@63Hayden]

Scott Manley I see, thanks for the explanation. Perhaps when KSP is ported over to the new Unity 5 engine, we'll see more accurate representation of hypervelocity impacts.

[@63Hayden]

Gigabic Yes, good idea - Scott did that in the video above at some point.

[@YskiTheBanshee]

Gigabic There are mods out there that can slow down time. This should do the trick: forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/85926

[@olekkuvppl]

For someone that asked about MMU for deorbit. MMU has 21m do dv and Soyuz has to burn 112-130m of dv to deorbit after separation so 6-7 MMU would be necessary but remember that in Gravity they transferred from Hubble to ISS with 2x mass using 1 MMU and that was 3km+ dv maneuver that would make this magical MMU nearly capable of going from iss to the moon :P

[@Ahsieh2]

Scott, you mentioned a game with genetic aspects. It reminded me of Evolva from the year 2000. It might not be quite what you had in mind, but it's what I thought of when I heard you mention genetics/ bounty hunting/ killing creatures. It's not on steam, but I'm sure you could find it somewhere.

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

Scott, maybe you already know it, but based on your description you should totally try Maxis SimLife. It's a genetic simulator (kind of), but it's really old (1992 vintage) and clunky unfortunately. It would be great to have a modern version of it!

[@scottmanley]

Antonio Barba Yep I know about this game, but it doesn't put you in the middle of it killing everything (and getting killed).

[@ravingidiot]

Scott Manley, I'm not sure that a game exists in the manner you speak of yet, but I like what you're hinting at. Spore almost comes to mind, except that its evolutionary simulation strangely has elements of creationism (e.g., being able to change your body plan when you "evolve"). Your idea sounds incredibly fun, however, and I don't imagine it would be terribly difficult to write a basic simulation along this vein, as evolutionary algorithms are incredibly straightforward. Turning it into a fun game might be a bit of a challenge, but I like the way you think, sir.

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

I hope some game dev is taking notes reading through the comments :) I used to be a game programmer, but I abandoned that field a few years ago to never come back (that's the plan, anyway).

[@lolman2425]

Scott Manley Your description really kinda matched the game Spore from 2008 or so

[@ravingidiot]

Antonio Barba, I actually have been doing doing game dev lately, and I thought about implementing a prototype Ludam Dare style for Scott; I've got my own major hobby game project I'm working on, though, and my career has me extremely busy, so I thought it was better to put such an idea on the back burner for now. I do want to come back to it, however (with appropriate credit to Scott for the idea), as I already have an idea of how I would implement this idea.

[@petersmythe6462]

The scary thing is that this is possible with a truly minuscule launch vehicle. Especially if it can be launched from a balloon or the top of a tall mountain, a single-stage human-portable SRB may provide sufficient velocity for an object massing in at under a kg to expend its remaining fuel hovering to match the target position. Even if the target could dodge, it would be devastating. Particularly bad is that even a 1 kg cubesat-style vehicle could pulverize a satellite or seriously damage a space station, seeing as anything in orbit deals 7 times its weight in TNT of damage, and this would be a direct impact. Consider that an AIM-9X air-to-air missile has a payload of under 10 kg, and that some variants have been tried, with positive results, with a directional charge of barely over 4 kg. A direct-hit kinetic would be considerably more destructive than a blast wave, even an annularly confined one, and unprotected spacecraft are probably more fragile than aircraft (although unlike aircraft, they can't be "shot down" per se, and are not subject to aerodynamic stresses).

[@wtffinger]

man this is like a blast from the not-so-far past: gravity, windows 10, no man's sky and the apple watch :D

[@bobsaggat]

not sure if it s possible within the confines of the game but it would be neat to see a complete station/satellite knocked out of orbit and reenter from a ground launched impact

[@iknowtheansa]

I think it would be really cool is you recreated the scene from gravity where all the debris is flying past. But view it in IVA in a cupola module that has a view of most of the structure. And the debris flying past it.

[@legodragonxp]

MMUs were found to be dangerous after a safety review follow the Challenger disaster and were grounded.

[@PatrioticTroll]

"my folks said freeze, and they got numb. Can I tell them that I never really had a gun?........those were the jams.

[@WNxJohnDoe]

I think all you were missing there is a fragmenting warhead. Maybe 0 force decouples attached to cubic struts dispersed by a slight rotation?

[@g_nn018]

It flew over 212 meters above you

[@timothymclean]

So...what you're saying is, if terrorists got ahold of a decent computer programmer and some military- or space-program-quality rockets, they could destroy the ISS. To any astronauts: Sweet dreams!

[@gigabic7487]

Well, i don't think that they would do it. It would be easier to do another 9/11 than it would be to take down the ISS

[@63Hayden]

Timothy McLean If the ISS were to randomly start firing it's maneuvering thrusters, the astronauts would take manual control of the spacecraft to prevent anything like that from happening.

[@63Hayden]

Timothy McLean If the ISS were to randomly start firing it's maneuvering thrusters, the astronauts would take manual control of the spacecraft to prevent anything like that from happening.

[@Markus9705]

Timothy McLean Yeah, they could. But that would mean a full scale war.

[@timothymclean]

Gigabic To paraphrase Kennedy, they would shoot down the ISS not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Bill Kerman True enough. Would require some forewarning, though. Markus Going by the aftermath of 9/11, possibly more than one, though not likely aimed directly at the perpetrators.

[@rtyuioP9000]

Maybe if you add parts with a high impact tolerance on a lot of decouplers and decouple at the last moment to make a cloud of debris in front of the station.

[@_jelle]

You have a year time to upgrade to win 10, so it's probably a good idea to at least wait until the first update.

[@RMJ1984]

That game he talks about. Sounds really awesome. Planetary Evolution game! :D Spore combined with the real zerg that evolves after each and every kill

[@yaksher]

Scott Manley is Danny confirmed, Scott Manley's upload rate goes down while Danny is uploading Also hints at extra projects and cool videos when Danny has said the same thing.

[@PandoraSystem]

Does Scott Manley seem like the type to play GTAV or Assassin's Creed?

[@AlexRolandHuszar]

wouldn't it have been easier to send up a few sharks with frickin' laser beams and the satellite down that way?

[@SuperCuriousFox]

Anyone else still waiting for "Hullo!" and "Fly safe!"?

[@qfra19956]

+ Scott Manley How about you update the Reusable Space Program?

[@cyan39miku]

So in the movie Gravity, the ISS would't get decimated, but only a wing would just get smashed off?

[@TheLesau]

We need a bigger boat

[@usernamejb69]

hey Scott I have an idea that may or may not be possible but i'd like to see what you think about it it would be to make a space station that reaches all the way around the plant kerbin on a equatorial orbit I say it might not be possible given the 2.5 km physics distance but I know you have used at least in the past a mod that lets you extend the load distance I don't know how far to but id love to see you have a go at that in a video/ video series as I'm sure it would take weeks/months to do if it is possible but I'm equally sure that with you trying to complete the challenge in the way only you know how

[@ryncomaekawa]

Actually HoneyFox's RendezMe changed version is pretty good for anti-satellite missiles.

[@Malfunct1onM1ke]

Hey Scott, have you seen the MAPHEUS-5 footage? The Yoyo-despin amazed me the most.

[@sharpshooter740]

ICBM defense? Next logical step if you ask me. It's especially interesting considering the fact that the concept is often passed off as unfeasible.

[@rrolo1]

Mr Manley, maybe you could retry the Rods of the Gods mod and trash the Space center using the Cheat engine? You must remember that you were unable to crash the buildings because your impactor was passing too fast through the buildings for the game to register a collision ...

[@Markus9705]

You might want to take a look at _Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution_, www.speciesgame.com/. It features variation, mutation and natural selection as described by Mendelian genetics and Darwinian Evolutionary Theory. The _Time Control_ mod would have been useful in this situation. This because CE does not actually decrease the time step interval but rather slow everything down. Simplified, it created a hook which will then start a very high priority thread in the game which will increase time counters.

[@Maikkeru]

Hey Scott, love your videos. Can you make a video explaining in detail how you got a job programming without a C.S. degree. I was in Physics, transferred into Economics, and I what to round out my abilities in programming. Python is the only major one I have down at the moment. C++ and C is something that I am adding into my toolkit now. What should I do to get to your level?

[@IzackN]

Huh. I was actually daydreaming about an interactive thing simulating ecosystems and evolution and suchlike. It would absorb so much of my time if it existed.

[@greybeard29]

You should do this with a shuttle or something, re-enact the scene from Gravity

[@DieuDeMort]

This is why we didn't shoot down Sputnik during the Cold War

[@ThalassTKynn]

Perhaps have a bunch of debris on a stage that you release right before 2km? Space shotgun!

[@SuperfluousJ]

You totally needed both NavHud and Enhanced Navball.

[@DowzerWTP72]

I have to say, I have learnt so much from watching your videos. Not just about KSP, but of astrodynamics, history and a whole load of other things too. But one question I have is... What in the world is an MMU? I've run searches and have been returned with universities!! And I'm sure that's not what you meant?!!!

[@legoclone0965]

It's murica's EVA suit.

[@scottmanley]

DowzerWTP72 MMU is the jetpack they developed for the space shuttle - Manned Maneuvering Unit. It gave the astronaut about 25m/s of dV to fly with.

[@jvles899]

Why are those clouds so beautiful?

[@iCeCoLDN1NJa]

Scott, I'm assuming people have already asked you this before, but what's your view on the up and coming game No man's Sky? Are you looking forward to it? Because I sure as hell am!

[@soejrd24978]

Scott, you almost have 100 million views!

[@arslin]

Interested what you think about this EM drive.

[@scottmanley]

mark miller That would be a good subject for a science video.

[@wagonfixin]

I have a question if you want to go to faraway planets like Moho or Eeloo to launch the ship up in like 3 parts assemble it then go on a trip in your favorite rocketship

[@ThalassTKynn]

Proper genetics in a game would be great. I tried it in The Sims, but of couse it was just random trait selection.

[@GeorgeLCostanza]

Just wondering if you're planning anything like the post-Interstellar RSS play through any time soon. I know you're focused on the tutorial series, but I got a hankering for some Sean Kerman

[@findingxeno3285]

Damn, looks like I can't go to sleep for another 26 min

[@yaksher]

Finding_Xeno same

[@christater5540]

Finding_Xeno Oh believe me, if I am really tired I put one of these vis on and it knocks me out.

[@gitargr8]

Scott wants a genocide feature in future games. Cool.

[@randomnamegbji]

I would like a spore like game but with more realistic evolution and possibly mass extinction events that you will have to deal with.

[@NoFakerLP]

How about an antiparallel orbit? 2.2km/s + 2.2km/s = 4.4km/s :D

[@NoFakerLP]

***** Maybe in slowmotion?

[@greybeard29]

Scott's dream game is kinda dark :D

[@OldMrSarvy]

there is a nice game from EA caled Spore and you start off with a cell and evolve into a complex civilization capable of space travel and encounter other alien civilizations

[@coolbeans3322]

+AndrySarvy It was a great concept and a decent game. I wish EA had done more with it :/

[@SecularMentat]

Seems like you'd want to explode your satellite before you reach the target so you're 'spread out' to give a better chance of collision. (I have a feeling you did this later in the video...I'm only at 7 minutes in)

[@SimonClarkstone]

21:00 Kesslertastic!

[@thischannelhasnocontent8629]

1:33 If Scott was Scorpion's voice actor.

[@ToastinEPIC]

What visual mods are you using? The clouds look really nice.

[@ThePizzabrothersGaming]

for at least a bit better way to find out the target's position use distant object enhancement!

[@Xxwolffangwarrior1xX]

Delete clouds folder in ATM Fixes the red thingy

[@DoctyrEvil]

Doe anyone else find themselves yelling "YES! ADD SEPARATION AT CLOSEST APPROACH YOU BIG DUMMY!" at the screen?

[@ComandanteJ]

Funky cluds are funky!

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

could you make an interplanetary series maybe against enterelysium and others?

[@MrRzepa158]

Another stream too early for Rzepa to get up... Rzepa stays late watching Scott and then can't get up early enough, yay... Anyway are there any chances of you making video about Freespace 2? Is there a point in geting it for a newbie like Rzepa?

[@dweenieplays2858]

if(obj_enemies

[@neutralspace-ishguy]

should have put a lot of bdarmory warhead on the probe

[@rask004]

Scott Manley could you use mechjeb A.S.S. to aim at " - target " and use side pointing rcs to maneuver? What does mechjeb have for rendezvous or to-target telemetry? Or is another mod useful?

[@starkat70]

are u trying to recreate the debris field in the Movie Gravity :P u said something with an ISS model :P

[@FilliamPL]

8:56 You just described the Korean War :D

[@Techfly11]

You should tinker with Biogenesis, it does a decent job with genetics, and if you want you can kill the ugly ones and feed the pretty ones and get some rather nice screenshots.

[@michiplays00]

It flew 193.5 meters above you

[@jabs1903]

What beer were you drinking in this livesteam? it looks like a Punk IPA by Brewdog

[@christater5540]

So Scott do you plan on making any complete Let's Plays of other games that aren't KSP, Star Citizen, or Elite? I really enjoyed your Xenonauts playthrough and I think you would enjoy other games like, say, Gunpoint, a bit far from your norm, but has witty comedy and a fun central gameplay aspect (Contains strong language.) Or Plague Inc., a game about annihilating the human race with a variety of pathogens!

[@DustyWall]

Scott Manley @7:30 you need NavHud.

[@websterbray9766]

Are you going to do a series when Xcom 2 comes out?

[@JJRicks]

So, is it 20km = 10,000 m? I thought it was 20km = 20,000m.

[@HHAugummi]

Please make more videos doing the stuff you do in your Lifestreams. Just - thats what I want to see. You building and trying stuff.

[@Naren93]

I made a Ballistic missile yesterday, maybe you can try and intercept that ?

[@iaago1520]

you cant deorbit with a mmu cause thd delta v in a regular mmu is only 30 or 40 feet per second

[@Falcon_Chapter]

Scott are you awear that the cloaca are pink is that sunrise/set or editing

[@azmanabdula]

Speaking of games, how about a game (now hear me out) Where you are a cannibal (Did i mention this isnt for children) Trying to survive in a city without being detected, but once you are detected, things become hard very quickly.... After a while the corpses would start to build up... The stench... all these variabilities... Sounds dark, but we have games like Hatred, why not?! Its all in good fun....ie its not real!

[@muf]

those are some pretty graphics. what mods are you using for them?

[@jackglossop4859]

Hella

[@chester117yt]

Hey Scott what's the mod that can add the action and key set window in your upper left window?

[@JohnDoe-zn4bg]

Why are the clouds pink?

[@asianizante]

Nathan Antaran Maybe because of the light.

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

2 many mods

[@Bram06]

***** 1 many broken mods

[@mattyk722]

Nathan Antaran Pride Week?

[@TinchoX]

Interesting T Gang Oh I see what you did there.