KSP: Sea Dragon HEAVY, Building a Dyna-Soar, and Circumnavigating Kerbin!

[@jennymckenzie5304]

What to do with Sea Dragon Heavy? Launch a MASSIVE space station full of tiny spaceplanes that go to a launchsite each.

[@ivolol]

Especially if KSP 2 allows for simultaneous physics simulations of distant crafts

[@aivarsgraudins8423]

@@ivolol hope not

[@w花b]

​@@ivolol if you multiply the recommend specs by 4 then maybe

[@icaleinns6233]

Oh hell yeah! I was about to suggest the same thing! MIRDS launcher (Multiple Independently targetable Re-entry Dyna-Soars) would be the perfect mission for all those failed attempts, and salvage the whole thing. And Matt, stop trying to do a gravity turn with that massive thing so low in the atmosphere. It's gonna burn up every time. Just do the most inefficient launch you can. Go straight up to 50 - 60 km then turn and continue to burn.

[@Ze_Techno]

@@ivolol And Vessel switching while in the atmosphere darn it!

[@kadeadams2308]

That bleep of a swear at the moment of takeoff was amazing!

[@Zoso14892]

Prime Matt for sure!

[@IamINERT]

That was perfect

[@brianwhite9339]

@@IamINERT He should make an interstellar airliner for his Life on Lyathe show!!

[@YICHEN-k8h]

Now you can PWOOOSH!!!

[@thecyanadon]

Glad to see KSP, last mission idea, get every single thing you ever launched back to kerbin and recover it.

[@noahdeboer1360]

Good idea!

[@Matsudaishere]

But the space stations and bases might be a problem

[@thecyanadon]

@@Matsudaishere Ehhhhhhhhh... Matt can do it.

[@Matsudaishere]

@@thecyanadon fair

[@lordstewpot975]

Getting all the stuff from expedition eve back would be *fun*

[@e.hellbrand9707]

"Please dont suck", Just out right freaking dies.

[@gggg-fr5qp]

Not a perfect human being? Thank you Matt for sharing another adventure

[@MattLowne]

lol thanks, fixed haha

[@tetronaut88]

@@MattLowne at least we have this comment to remind us that nobody is perfect...

[@adriansmith3825]

@Matt Lowne please make a ksp 1 tribute for the years of great content and fucking about with mechanics

[@gggg-fr5qp]

@@MattLowne Nice one

[@rowangreen1101]

You could make the sea dragon heavy and then put a bunch of landers in instead of space planes

[@dunodisko2217]

Two little bits of info: 1. The DynaSoar likely didn’t work due to center of lift/center of mass issues. Just like planes, the center of lift needs to be behind the center of mass (quite literally like a giant dart). Having all the wing bits up top might easily be balanced by large fins on the first stage, but will quickly overpower anything else once the first stage detaches. 2. When trying to build fairings in symmetry, just hold ALT while you left click to duplicate the part after you build the first one.

[@cate01a]

looked more to me like the dynasoar had the center of thrust offset from center of mass since iirc at like alt 50000 where aerodynamics shouldnt matter much, it still flipped

[@proxy3386]

The problem is that Fairings can’t be duplicated with the Alt Key. A way to ‘duplicate’ fairings is to have 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 (Etcetera) symmetry octagonal struts, and to then place the fairing part on said octagonal strut and remove THAT from symmetry instead of trying to eyeball it. Or you can go the Craft-File-Editing Route, which is a whole thing on its own.

[@MattLowne]

1 - Yep, I know, but I was restricted here because I was literally recreating the aesthetics of a real vehicle, so I couldn't fix the problems by changing the wing design. 2 - This does not work for fairings. It will only duplicate the base.

[@eekee6034]

@@MattLowne I sometimes do get fairings to follow symmetry. It's always in the SPH, so maybe they respect mirror symmetry?

[@dwaynepeters4520]

@@MattLowne 1. So why did the real vehicle not have these problems?

[@Bigg_Russ]

Me: "wow, the sea dragon sure is one massive rocket" Matt: "but wait, it gets BIGGER"

[@sloppyjoe9204]

Matt: builds an uncontrollable rocket Also Matt: MOAR BOOSTERS

[@thespacepeacock]

Use the Sea Dragon Heavy to run KSP2, it might have *just* enough power to run the minimal requirements

[@SuprSBG]

lol

[@cinemasurge1851]

I’ve been upgrading my computer since I was a child to run Ksp and now it is paying off immensely for running ksp2 😂

[@MotoCat91]

7:15 was the best chapter/title card I've seen in quite a long time, well played

[@yannismc4113]

this whole episode felt very different in an amazing way

[@fruitnoodle_]

ah yes the matt lowne triple special

[@efrandom5472]

Love the editing! It adds so much character to the video

[@yoshialmighty8324]

RE: the Dyna-Soar - You were probably having an issue of your center of lift shifting in front of the center of gravity when you separated stages which is why the craft kept nose-flipping immediately upon separation. More tail fins on the second stage booster probably would have helped, although it probably would have looked a little strange haha

[@raymondmendez9832]

I like that you fail all your videos that I’ve watched you’ve had nothing but short of perfect missions so to see that you can sometimes fail missions makes you more relatable than ever I like this fail attempts type of videos

[@Carnasa]

Dyna-Soar with RAF livery is peak British energy... And I love it.

[@SuprSBG]

WAIT MY GOSH ITS CARNASA FROM FOR ALL KERBALKIND

[@thehobbist5544]

Its quite magnificent, isn't it?

[@Kirk00077]

Use the Sea Dragon Heavy to launch a miniature Saturn V so that the whole rocket can land on the Mun in one piece

[@mirage7682]

For the Sea Dragon Heavy, in KSP 2 once interstellar engines are out, make it a single launch to another system with a colony.

[@eekee6034]

Yes!

[@legotrainfan1256]

Hello Matt, this video has entertained me tonight for 19 minutes and 41 seconds and I appreciate it and have a good time!

[@nico_qwer1732]

It was uploaded 6 minutes ago

[@Plantoffel]

And what’s with the one last second?

[@ivolol]

*13 minutes and 45 seconds

[@legotrainfan1256]

You guys don't understand I was watching still after I posted the comment but it was really good where I was so I like decided to comment before I forgot. Sorry for the confusion!

[@lunaarn6572]

as someone who has just watched a lot of your videos from 3+ years ago, I love seeing all the improvements in the editing and the voiceovers! keep it up matt

[@Ricksdetrix]

are the unlockable launch sites part of one of the DLCs? I have 1000 hours in ksp, mostly on kerbin and I've never heard of sites you can actually launch from

[@ashersmasher3659]

No, It's a part of stock KSP. You have to click an option in the difficulty menu to unlock them, though. Once you've done that you can fly to them to get them fully unlocked.

[@GENeric08]

In this video Matt forgets that he can just apply more and more SAS wheels

[@ChevronQ]

this was such a wonderful video 😂 love the editing, love the pacing, love the commentary and all around I like this sort of video where you show some failed projects every once in a while. ❤️

[@fast-toast]

For the sea dragon perhaps you could launch an entire Interplanetary transfer space station into orbit around kerbin. From there you could go to jool and maby do a jool five

[@blobifi]

i love the idea and look of the sea dragon

[@cdz9400]

What a surprise! I have been horribly sick for the past 7 days so this is exactly what I need to finnaly bring me back to good health. Thank you Matt!

[@joewoodhouse1862]

In ksp2 you could use the super heavy to launch major parts of an orbital shipyard/colony, if I remember correctly you can build vehicles in orbit and this would be an ideal rocket to set up the infrastructure

[@rayceeya8659]

I've done DynaSoar builds before, you need really really big wings at the bottom of your stack. Some of the concept art from the original Air Force program actually shows this too.

[@kaptain1477]

Matt a tip for cruising a Planes on time warp. You should right click the elevators and that way while you are flying you can adjust the angle which means you can make the plane acsend and decend with small adjustments will warping to keep the craft level also send fuel to the center of the craft to stabilize the plane making it stay level without having to stop warping.

[@aliteralpothole9205]

Go to Moho, Eve, Gilly, Mün, Minmus, Ike, and Duna with the sea dragon heavy

[@Gary_The_Cat123]

I love how the engines of cargo plane bleep you out (Btw I think it looks pretty good).

[@Sfsandroblox0093]

Someone give this guy an award for most kerbals killed in one video :)

[@Bzorlan]

I think Danny still probably holds that one

[@A83cl211]

That was a great video, loved it! I tried to make a Dream Chaser replica a while ago and had the same trouble with the rocket flipping every time. In the end I launched it with a fairing. It’s a shame because the plane flew like a charm and the reentry was a ton of fun.

[@SamTheApe]

This is some of my favorite editing you've done yet, keep it up!

[@generallypaper139]

Matt this is one of your best videos commentary wise from what I’ve watched, keep up the good work

[@jakebanks888]

Just going to put this here, we all can’t wait for ksp 2 to come out to have more KSP content from you Matt

[@DFPercush]

I like the high altitude supersonic rapier engine plane approach for getting around Kerbin. Just get up to speed and then sip fuel going 800-900 m/s, you'll be there in no time. I hope KSP 2 gives us an option to launch from the water, maybe even other vessels. Since they have a base building aspect to the game, maybe you can build a launch pad anywhere.

[@donaldneill4419]

The only thing missing from this glorious montage of failure was "Yakkety Sax". Well done, Matt!

[@Darltatrace]

Yes! The sea dragon video finally released!

[@yogimojo4685]

great vid despite all the difficulties (kind of reassuring actually...) maybe in KSP 2 you'll be able to build your own alternative launch sites, Sea Dragon Heavy, Sea Dragon Heavy, hmmm, how about a really big can of beans for one of your colonies? (I mean reeally big!)

[@kaptain1477]

11:21 have the upper crafts wings perpindicular to the ground that way it doesn't generate lift causing the craft to flip

[@justtheflagguy727]

For the sea dragon heavy you should make a single launch eve base

[@stefansundstrom7448]

You should make a kerbalspaceprogram 2 video with it, when you launch a surface base to the secuond solar systen. Great video. Make a video where you rate evry planet or something like that :)

[@Falcon-_-]

The dragon of the sea

[@talkinglock]

12:30 "I started to think perhaps my problem was lack of boosters!" Matt, theres always more boosters. If your rocket cant achieve the speed of like in less the a nanosecond of leaving the pad, it needs more boosters.

[@Middy_37]

I love this video :D Constantly made me laugh - thank you for making my day :)

[@matthewstorr7544]

This was probably one of the more entertaining videos I've seen from Matt. I guess I had this weird assumption that everything went right for him on the first go. This video looks a lot more like my game play. I laughed out loud at, "this is stupid, this has way too many boosters... I'm in!". Bahahah!

[@RocketBurn11]

This is my new favorite Matt Lowne video.

[@odkwba2875]

Pleasently surprised by the amazing quality of this video!

[@ВикторФирсов-е9ф]

16:10 You did a fairingly good job)

[@jmdibonaventuro]

37 minutes ago for a Matt Lowne video? Last time it was this early Matt was an SSTO KZbinr. Jokes aside, great video and I can’t wait to see what you‘lol do in KSP 2.

[@simonshemetilo4606]

Can't wait for the next space this week and for more ksp2 updates before the early access on Friday.

[@Liastnir]

That was a pretty nifty idea, using the fairings as "engine cones"

[@doodlegarbage6769]

Very first thought when I saw your issues with the Dyna-Soar was to instead sandwich the Dyno-Saur plane between rocket parts, leaving it near the base. Not exactly historical, but it made the rocket fly amazing.

[@iwyrilja]

KSP2 IS GETTIN CLOSE, ONE WEEK

[@SEB9630_pl]

For hiding piston its best to hide it in cargo bay and move docking port to desired place hovwever it usually ends up with pistin sticking out a bit and port flying soo we have to make comprmisses

[@hegartfamily543]

matt i dont how i can make this good video im flying around me NOW THATS WHAT I CALL A GOOD VIDEO i love your videos

[@danielghull]

Matt, for the Sea Dragon Heavy I suggest that you launch ... a dragon (or at least a plane that looks like one) 🐉

[@coolsunday6339]

Hi Matt Nice video, it's good to know you struggle too sometimes. Could you please explain how at 14:04 you get that row of connection points? You did it in other videos, I can't work it out and it would be really useful. Thanks in advance.

[@MattLowne]

Right click the fairing and there's a toggle for interstage nodes 👍

[@redbeard3574]

One thing that came to my mind for the Sea Dragon is the "rods from god" station that the US military considered building. Though, I'm not sure if the tungsten rods it would've been equipped with could even be modeled in Vanilla KSP.

[@LetsTakeWalk]

Only a week till KSP2 and am excited what you are going to do with it.

[@AndrewCollins7]

What a wonderfully Kerbal video. Idea #1 worked great, but too slow, so let's come up with a bunch of different ideas, and none of them work. And I loved every minute of it! For the sea dragon heavy, it might have better flight manners if you tried launching it at 50% thrust. Also, you should use it to capture and land an asteroid on Kerbin.

[@Aritani]

Watching you mess with those wings makes me excited for KSP 2 .

[@insertgenericuserhere]

Good job Matt you posted at like 11:30 Pm and I'm still awake

[@homefront1999]

If you wanted, I think it could be cool doing a touch down on all planets before KSP 2 EA gets released. I also think it could be a cool ide if you did a challenge, on how fast you get to Eeloo, land, and return to Kerbin. I think this could be interesting.

[@SP4CEBAR]

you could add significant RCS thrusters to your dinosaur to keep it controllable

[@31337techno]

Ok the 2:45 idea was super creative and fresh!

[@inpatol3204]

2:43 I died

[@JollyJumper26]

''you can just go and ....'' xD i just love you bro.

[@Will-ok5vp]

Just an idea to help along the SDR design Those little SRB's connecting the boosters to the tank, maybe use them as separation boosters instead of firing them on the ground?

[@theimperfectgod7140]

This video is all over the place in a beautiful fashion. sweet chaos!!! 👍🗿

[@radicxl6802]

Mathew, can we get a KSP2 livestream next week when it comes out??

[@MattLowne]

[@xmimagma4630]

Editing on this one was great!

[@radicxl6802]

Very fun editting this week

[@Riv_Dyl97]

So nice to see you pay homage to KSP, before you move on to 2, by using the tried and true method of more struts and more boosters to (try) and fix everything :)

[@kingawsume]

You are correct in calling it an AWACS-type plane, however the more "correct" term would be AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning & Control, pronounced AY-Wack), as the US Air Force's Airborne Warning & Control System refers specifically to the E-3 Sentry in American service. They provide aerial reconnaissance and target identification for planes that would rather not have their radars turned on, and usually serve as an aerial command post as well.

[@lugiakane470]

i did the dyna-soar it worked for me i entered a north pole incline up to 90km decoupled the plane and had enough fuel for polar orbit and a bit of practice i have the craft file if you wish to have it

[@lugiakane470]

ill upload a youtube video for you shortly

[@ThatCatByTheStreet-ln2yc5we7d]

6 days until KSP 2!!! I have been waiting 4 ever!!!

[@eliparker4114]

The sea dragon should be used for a grand tour, but one that uses brute force. There’s a vessel that detaches and goes to moho. A separate vessel that detaches and goes to Eve/gilly. A third one that goes to Duna and it’s moon. A fourth vessel detaches and goes to Dres, etc. each of these sub-missions has one kerbal in a fairly minimalist pod, but by launching them all together it’s so heavy that you need the sea dragon to do the job.

[@Wubbotic]

In KSP2, you should use the dragon heavy as a Duna or Ike mission.

[@bad424]

Also when u do a spaceplane on top of a rocket disable it's Elevons and u rly need to pay attention to the aerodynamics for each stage cuz u add all ur wings for the first stage but none for the middles one

[@Tr0lliPop]

2:42 LMFAO THE CENSORSHIP

[@Mcflycoolvideos]

I’ve never laughed so hard at a ksp video, great job matt 😂

[@cameroncook6643]

MATT! Huge tip use subassemblies to duplicate fairing such as custom engine bells.

[@thegoldendumdum2466]

Attach wings to a small asteriod and try to fly it in kerbins atmosphere.

[@aronhy2842]

originally Coming to this Channel because of the sea dragon video this was amazing thanks for that

[@IsabelA-is7ec]

For the Sea Dragon Heavy, you should carry a large Eeloo single launch space station.

[@GoSlash27]

When launching aerodynamically unstable rockets it's important to keep the T/W ratio low and stage above 30 km altitude.

[@dannypipewrench533]

9:27 I mean, the Titan IIIC was just a Titan IIIA with SRBs, and the Titan IIIA was just a Titan II with Transtage as a third stage.

[@valecasini]

6:28 I'm not gonna ask what are those glitches 🤣 16:00 why? You could have added that central component into a sub assembly and then attach them to the decoupler! (that's how I have done the engines of my real size Energia) Next video idea: "Sea Dragon launch other rockets into orbit" (like StarShip or heavy launch vehicles)

[@dylanwatts9344]

The heaviest parts want to be on prograde side. Lifting surfaces want to be on the retrograde side. Meaning big heavy boosters with a space plane on top will never fly. Hence why the shuttle is balanced on the launch vehicle.

[@TheWestNomad]

I have a challenge, make a space station or surface base with a fully reusable rocket, boosters, main rocket, and payload, all using the same rocket from before, without going back to the VAB.

[@AlexDiesTrying]

0:37 And Nelson goes: "HA HA"

[@josephhenderson2538]

Sea Dragon Heavy payload idea: a fully self-sustaining colony. Once those get implemented in KSP 2.

[@spritefun9362]

Regarding the failed Titan DynaSoar, I also have this issue when trying to fly any spaceplane on top of a launcher, even when disabling control surfaces and adding huge wings, I think its a problem with KSP itself. Anyway the fix, which is a bit of a kick in the balls, is to enclose the spaceplane in a fairing...

[@synneke]

A difficult challenge: Make a colony where you can walk inside of (so with an interior) and is fully functional

[@TerrainiumKSP]

sea dragon heavy payload idea: medium sized surface base to one of the brown cracks on eeloo

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

Now that Matt’s back to playing KSP 1, it’s time to see… SEA DRAGON SUPERHEAVY

[@iBele.]

Yeah, finally a new ksp video!

[@emmata98]

15:12 maybe do the mission where you get a saturn 5 from the mun back to kerbin?