KSP: a SEA LAUNCHED Moon Rocket!

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

You say the boat was slow, but still it’s top speed was 126 km/h or 35 m/s. Do I need to say that’s extremely fast for a ship?

[@Itszz.christian]

that's the speed a top end speedboat would go, it was going 80 mph or 126 km/h like you said. pretty insane speeds for a ship carrying a whole rocket.

[@dieleg]

68 knots, a ship as heavy as that would most likely have a top speed of 16 knots if not probably lower

[@w0monty494]

EARLY LETS GO as an american pulling an all nighter was so worth it

[@beanzthetoaster7684]

Same

[@pedrobreyner7204]

Laughs in European

[@ab3ki84hayate]

Laughs in asian

[@jlogitoffical1212]

Laughs in carribean

[@cannaer8164]

Laughs in European also

[@radicalgale]

I think the reason the boat was turning left is the cockpit tower made out of lifting surfaces. I'm not sure why it would provide so much drag, though.

[@MattLowne]

Maybe, but again I'd tested it prior to filming and it didn't pull left. Who knows 🤷‍♂️

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Maybe add an Vector engine

[@randomkerbal]

Just lower the thrust on the opposite side engine.

[@eekee6034]

There's also its mass. I added a small spotlight about 30cm off-center within a bay on a 10-ton spaceplane, and the plane kept rolling to that side. However, that was repeatable and this isn't, so I don't know!

[@galactus9678]

Yeah

[@Mcsnipe425]

Love the opening, “noise complaints”, definitely not because it is mega cool and hard to do, NOOOOOOOO

[@emperorpalprotein319]

yeah lol def not because noise complaints, because if it was then he would be trying to make it worse with those water splashes

[@ALT0_768]

i would have liked but i didnt want to spoil the glorious 69.

[@FlukyMeteor]

10:14 remember when you rescued everyday astronaut’s Saturn v with an N1 2 years ago? That happened to him.

[@hehehe6959]

Such a shit joke

[@TARS117]

I thought it was going to be another sea dragon😂

[@wingid]

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[@wingid]

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[@EthanPricco]

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[@rahalaparvin7385]

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[@hisyam1664]

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[@cpanw]

“Lowne aerospace’s first sea launch rocket” Sea dragon: am I a joke to u?

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Didn't ha made an submarine ones?

[@JupiterVortex]

@K.M.S Tirpitz Do you know how to use Do English?*

[@astranarzoles3949]

Its just planned they didnt really launched it

[@astranarzoles3949]

I think,.

[@cpanw]

@@astranarzoles3949 lowne aerospace did though

[@evmcg]

This sounds like it’s going to be a good video already! Edit: I was not disappointed - I love that driving launchpad! I wonder how much thrust you’d need out of those jet engines to do that IRL...

[@tauraspace]

yooo evan haha

[@evmcg]

@@tauraspace hey Josh!

[@sackofwetmice428]

It’s Matt Lowne, what were you expecting?

[@evmcg]

@@sackofwetmice428 I mean, fair point - his videos are always incredible!

[@CptManny]

@@evmcg no his vids are garbage nah jk

[@user-fl7cu2bj5u]

Oh nice I recently finally got ksp on my pc and I've been loving re-learning ksp and messing with all the mods thank you Matt your videos are always incredibly entertaining and very creative all while you still have a job working in the NHS. Thank you Matt you absolute hero.

[@wizardish1264]

"Noise complaints" **PROCEEDS TO USE THREE GIGANTIC ENGINES**

[@Jr_42002]

5 in the morning! Perfect time to watch Matt Lowne!

[@lazilexi]

"noise complaints" Yeah right Matt, we all know you just want to get into Elon's good books

[@llawliet4249]

bro?

[@lazilexi]

@@llawliet4249 Bro?

[@jonahsgang8830]

Lol

[@llawliet4249]

@@lazilexi bro.

[@GreenGj-]

This dude didn't swap accounts...

[@jadennelson7886]

For all mankind hype is through the roof.

[@starstorm5338]

I love the Sea Dragon esque rocket. That huge ship is a great and creative solution for moving huge stuff.

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Except problems with that size of engine. And cost. And noise. And Giant explosion if it blew up. And not being effective.

[@fractalelf7760]

Using a rocket to align a rocket for launch - so very Kerbal !

[@aryanshirke7294]

3:50 (insert deja vu meme)

[@raphaelantonrainer]

At my first mun Mission I landed pretty near a mun arch.

[@themadman5615]

I once found a Min arch without looking for it, at the time I didn't even know they existed so I was quite surprised

[@sabersight908]

when it sounds like your watching Space This Week but realize it is a KSP episode xD

[@memegod4433]

This guys videos have helped me through some very dark times. Matt, thank you.

[@spriteup382]

The Apollo missions should have been called Artemis missions as she is the godess of the moon

[@marcusrauch4223]

Apollo is the god of the moon as well. They were siblings I believe.

[@avizxrt]

There is a real artemis mission using SLS and orion capsules

[@lunaurum3515]

@@marcusrauch4223 Apollo is the god of the sun. Still siblings with Artemis, but their domains are unrelated

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Funfact: In mythology Artemis (NASA's program) killed Orion (NASA's capsule)

[@marcusrauch4223]

@@ImieNazwiskoOK sounds like a bad omen

[@Puma_Concolour]

After losing my heart to play after my save got fubar'd and my ps4 just could not handle launching my super-behemoth, you have reinspired me with this mobile launch platform tomfoolery! Thank you Matt!

[@eloncrust3482]

I can already tell that this is a Matt lowne video worth enjoying!

[@akshaygowrishankar7440]

You know a video's good when just by the title u get Sea Dragon vibes.

[@vibhavarisatwik8114]

Ikr

[@insanelyme938]

"I hope I got whatever message I was trying to get across... across" I needed the laugh. Never change, please, thank you.

[@lokeshkannan5602]

"local residence " sure do hope they add that to ksp2

[@EtsuMatsuya]

Also, stock boats would be nice too. Being able to do sea launches would be great.

[@TheWizardGamez]

@@EtsuMatsuya stock... why would they do that when they have one of the greatest mod communities ever

[@quantumx9729]

Why is the thrust reverser on one of the goliaths toggled?

[@ratemisia]

To counteract the turning of the boat in the one direction and to turn in the other

[@luchi1159]

Thanks for the idea Matt!

[@patricks_music]

Matt's CPU: What do I do Matt: You speed up KSP footage 500x. CPU: Oh, my, god.

[@takingtheshot9830]

Nice reference

[@OtherTheDave]

15:07 If you point normal/anti-normal during the final separation, you can pretty much avoid all risk of that.

[@extravirginoliveoil335]

I finally got this game and my first 5 attempts of a mun landing went as follows: 1. Not enough fuel, stuck in a mun orbit 2. Found out 50/ms is not a good landing speed 3. Tipped after landing, lost parachute 4. Forgot heat shield, burnt up in kerbins atmosphere 5. Forgot to actually do experiments And on the sixth I discovered quicksaving

[@Closer2Zero]

I’d really love to see you do a series where you actually play the game from the start and go do missions and collect science. That way I’d be able to be a lot more interested in what videos than “oh pretty ship fly to far away place and not crash. Neat”

[@imnotgoodatnameingthings9543]

Matt aerospace 1

[@imnotgoodatnameingthings9543]

Or something

[@imnotgoodatnameingthings9543]

Also blunderbirbs

[@zuvermieten]

The wobble when raising the rocket and especially the helping aerospike are among the most kerbal things I've ever seen...

[@ICKY427]

i like to think Jeb, on the way to the mun, would occasionally open the docking port hatch and say hi to the others.

[@taxer6278]

I like that headcannon

[@KiwiMapper]

So completely unnecessary but so completely awesome, KSP in a nutshell.

[@Dew397]

this guy Is amazing!

[@Arae_1]

Looks like it's gonna be a good video

[@GoSlash27]

You missed a golden opportunity at the end for a "Matt's hwiskey review" segment. Great job on the mission planning and execution.

[@TheRealFrontierStudio]

Finally I have been expecting you matt

[@spacebeans4985]

Day one of asking for a career series

[@foodvideoshorts2683]

How long will you ask?

[@spacebeans4985]

@@foodvideoshorts2683 Till he does it

[@foodvideoshorts2683]

Let's go!!!

[@valentevescio7647]

YES 👍

[@qwert1184]

Sounds like a sea dragon with extra steps

[@jamesmanger4392]

Very cool to see a larger mission like this relocated away from the KSC. Terrific video!

[@Ikonic8]

This guy is a GENIUS

[@martiny6620]

I once found a Mun Arch unintentionally too, it was ages ago

[@raphaelantonrainer]

15:11 yes that's why you should decouple normal or anti normal before reentry

[@hyperboloidofonesheet1036]

15:08 And this is why you point normal or anti-normal before you ditch the service module. :)

[@reactorfour1682]

Every time Matt talks about back when scanning tech wasn’t in ksp I think “I started playing this game in 2015; how has it been 5 years already”

[@Stephen10188]

15:23 Matt: "... But of Course we still have 1 more thing left to do in this mission..." Me: "Whiskey Review Time!!!"

[@rebsredone450]

This style of moon landing option is called ‚lunar orbit rendezvous‘.

[@douglasparkinson4123]

got to enable same vessel intersec for both ports with advanced tweakables if you want two docking ports on one ship to dock.

[@infamousquest]

Now this is the awesome quality stuff

[@kahukura5154]

The water looks so good

[@skoldmo762]

how come you didnt do asymetrical thrust on the engines with the thrust reversers ? :)

[@rileyg6107]

Matt, i found a min arc on my first mun "landing" (there were many explosions)

[@ehrenmurdick]

I found a mun arch naturally! Way way back, when there was a launch tower and the ksc monolith hovered five meters off the ground. I was not spoiled for it either, so it was quite a surprise!

[@ArthurChristopherRose]

Matt: I called this LASLO. In my hehehehead. Me: WHEEEZE!

[@austinleverseidge6525]

Whenever I land on the mun I can always see a mun arch I thought it was a normal thing until i watched Matt lown

[@ragtagragnor2943]

just got back from the eye doctor and saw that matt uploaded yay

[@InventorZahran]

Coincidentally, Matt is also an eye doctor.

[@theambergryphon4266]

this is so scuffed ahahahaaha I love it

[@tippyc2]

I recently found a Mun arch naturally also. Was testing a SRB-only Mun rocket, so i had exactly zero dV to explore it.

[@cupofspiders5830]

was v cool! awesome exciting video as always :)

[@sajjadalikhan]

The boat turns to the left probably because the center of mass is slightly to the left of the boats centerline since there is only one control tower/island, which is left of center. If have two control towers on either side to maintain symmetry it would be fine, or move around some fuel to get balanced

[@gamereditor59ner22]

Amazing launch!!!!

[@mxp5657]

Now do that, but recover the first stage! Land on a sea platform or just splashdown I guess.

[@matthewt5404]

I love how there is always some sort of complaint by kerbals

[@columbidaehato515]

The Mün lander and command module look like a baby apollo

[@sneed2600]

Matt I’ve been studying your timelapses and can now confidently say I am reaching your skill level

[@kerbinkerman4401]

Nice, visual mods are working now! It doesn't look like a complete cartoon anymore! Jeb comes alive, "Humans are just stupid, you can't quick save OR reload. How do you even get to space..." Elon Musk responds, "We are rich little green space plant" Val "Well at least I have a planet named after me" Musk "should I try that??" Next new planet found, Matt Lowne Planet

[@personno.9482]

The water looks amazing

[@sven518-7]

Have a lovely day everyone

[@Arae_1]

You should totally make a falcon 9 replica that launches from the sea and lands on land, instead of the other way around (yes I'm aware of RTLS launches but that isn't what I'm talking about)

[@chewico3d133]

This is what means a rocket sea level

[@astronomical4763]

Awesome video!

[@andystevens7557]

I feel like this would have been a perfect application for a hydrofoil.

[@jasiahmascarenas9387]

may the algorithm gods bless your kind heart

[@knickohr01]

10:13 That happened to me once. I guess i was the first one.

[@c45stech4]

My life in a nutshell: Matt uploads a video: I click

[@eekee6034]

The rocket looks very much like my first successful rockets! :) The top stage is more sophisticated but, ahem, that's just payload. ;)

[@SilkieRoo]

I found a Mun arch on my first fly by of the Mun, lol. I think a couple of them are on the equatorial orbit, so you end up seeing them on typical approaches if you're paying attention. It was during a stream. I didn't even know what the hell it was, so I was quite surprised.

[@gametechish]

Oml watching and playing ksp makes me wanna finish my degree so damn badddddd. Lemme work on rockets alreadyyyyyy

[@zack_the_proot]

You have inspired me to make a sea dragon thank you a lot for your inspiration

[@hyperflammable]

First mun landing ever on my descent I saw a mun arch and just looked at it in awe

[@runem5429]

I love that you actually have to launch the launchpad..

[@judet2992]

Mission plan: Apollo-style mission, but you bring the lander back with you to low kerbin orbit. Then you send up another mission to dock with it, ad a heat shield and some chutes so you get that sweet sweet “vessel recovered from surface of mun” science.

[@manfredvonkarma4752]

I have a challenge for you Matt, do a direct ascent mission to duna, except, do not use maneuver nodes

[@Emlif]

I actually once found a natural mun arch just by landing. First and only time ive seen one too!

[@dumbpilot7733]

I found a Mun arch naturally before, there's one right off the equator somewhere.

[@antidisestablishmentariani569]

Yay! New episode!

[@jackalovski1]

15:06 the Boeing Starline method of re-entry

[@michalbochenski4329]

next vid: Let's send a AIR LAUNCHED moon rocket!

[@TheMinniOfDia]

and what's next? polar to polar launch? hmmmmmm

[@timoheinz2879]

Let's actually do an Eve mission using only SRB's and parachutes

[@OrionAerospaceKSP]

The spark engine seems much more powerful for it's size than the terrier for some reason.

[@eekee6034]

The engines with good vacuum efficiency tend to be rather heavy for their power. I don't know why exactly, but perhaps it's the proportionately bigger bell. 1 Terrier has the same power as 3 Sparks, weighs 28% more, and has 8% better fuel efficiency in vacuum. I'm not quite sure how to balance those details, but I guess the Terrier is a better choice if the ship is a bit on the heavy side anyway.

[@OrionAerospaceKSP]

@@eekee6034 Never expected anyone to reply. Thanks for the interesting details!

[@eekee6034]

@@OrionAerospaceKSP You're welcome :)

[@BronzeCactusorBronzeCaktus]

I found the mun arch that's to the north of one of the craters, I think it's a southern one, on my own, but I've since then sent many missions there on purpose. Regardless of that, awesome launch platform!

[@dimondimon8518]

Matt You are the best!

[@yayeet344]

This rocket is soo awesome

[@fiendishrabbit8259]

I think you can make a much better "rocket raiser" using multiple attached telescopic pistons that are then linked to the rocket launch rail (and the platform) with unpowered joints. You might still need assist pushers for the raise (like propellers, or more pistons or rockets) but it wouldn't be nearly as wobbly.

[@vojtechjancura682]

Actually, i landed nearby mun arch on my first mun landing!

[@r.i.pwindowsxp6876]

Fun fact: you can use the eva science experiment thing without being landed, and it gives loads of science

[@moltenlavaguy9334]

15:11 I’ve killed my kerbals by accidentally doing this WAY too many times.

[@TJBot]

New series idea: Kolonize Kerbol (establish small bases on all terrestrial bodies, and go farther if you want)

[@DRUNKalpaca]

I found a mun arch organically while just watching one of my mun satellites orbit. I immediately marked down the spot and got together some Kerbin’s to go see it up close! It was awesome!