KSP solar speed run - 103 000 m/s with stock parts only

[@danstheory4164]

After 11 000 years he's gonna have a big problem to deaccelerate the spacecraft as it approach the star system.

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

Lithobrake?

[@danstheory4164]

***** what

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

danish ACOG Using the spacecraft's built in crumple zones to dissipate kinetic energy. (Crashing)

[@danstheory4164]

That wouldn't be a good idea for a spacecraft travelling at 103 000 m/s, most of the weight is probably going to be the heavy heat shield.

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

danish ACOG Ah, but this is the Kerbal universe, where anything is possible in the name of *science*!

[@EncoreVGC]

Aspargus staged ion engines... Never thought i would hear such a thing...

[@SuperBuizelll]

I'd be surprised if it wasn't already done for a grand tour ship, but you never know, this could really be the first instance.

[@buttersquids]

TheGravityz3ro What has happened to this world?

[@MrPierdole123]

Not just asparagus. It's a hybrid of Onion and asparagus staging that I've seen there ._. NUTS

[@WayneInfinity0526]

Basically its cluster of ion engines

[@remerix4239]

4 ly away, 47 years of flight time to get to high speed escape velocity. Oh yeah... sorry Hersen, we kinda developed new spacecraft like, 20 years after you left... we've made friend and cut travel time down to like, a month...

[@barhamd]

+Merix1110 That's an actual topic of space travel. It's called Wait Calculation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Calculation

[@amberb9701]

+AA .Gaming Channel That's about how long it would take to get to the nearest star with a warp drive

[@dudester1016]

+AA .Gaming Channel that happened in a twilight zone episode...

[@noiapahincognito1973]

John F Kennedy.... Your not dead anymore

[@QUADEeee]

Hersen: But how did you go faster than light?

[@ObfuscatingUsername]

what is scary about this is the final 10 seconds or so. This demonstrates the humongous distances of space quite well. All that velocity, all that fuel, and it still takes 10,000 years to get anywhere! Let's hope we find some spice somewhere...

[@kliffnme9677]

+TheCriticChiken use said nightmare fuel to go faster profit

[@44R0Ndin]

+ObfuscatingUsername Those huge distances aren't insurmountable. Using a generation ship, it wouldn't matter how long the trip took, so long as it got there. Of course, it's possible to do the whole "just go faster" thing too, but it's not practical in KSP with only stock parts. IRL, we have theories for better rocket engines that would shorten the time to go 4ly down to something like 20 years or less. Examples, most powerful first: Beam-core antimatter rocket engine, Ramscoop augmented plasma core antimatter thermal engine, antimatter-catalyzed fusion rocket engine, fusion plasma rocket engine. Sure we don't have any working examples of these things, but we know that the basic phenomena behind them work. The sun is a fusion reactor, and we can produce tiny quantities of antimatter in particle accelerators. With fusion, the hard part is getting a reaction going at all due to the huge temperatures needed. With antimatter, storage is the hard part, antimatter reacts with ANY normal matter instantly converting both to pure energy (mostly high-energy gamma rays). For an idea of what would be possible if we got those kind of propulsion methods working, you can use the KSP Interstellar Extended mod.

[@klesk4never]

He managed to reach the velocity of "only" 0.034% light speed, and since his ship can't "brake" he has only the ability to fly by another star system in a couple of thousands of years. Yup... distances involved are overwhelming.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

That shouldn't be scary. The alternative would be SO MUCH WORSE. We'd be up to our necks in rogue planets, GRBs, supernovae, and stars crashing into us if celestial bodies were too much closer.

[@selensewar]

@@kliffnme9677 I'm writing that down. " Want to travel through space really quickly? Just use nightmare fuel."

[@router_BasedUser]

"The 12 hour long acceleration begins." *BUT FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT PARALLEL UNIVERSES.*

[@thejay8963]

*que Jake Chudnow music (AKA Vsauce music)*

[@Chris-lv1es]

*OR DO WE?*

[@Jupiter__001_]

File select music intensifies

[@jonahlouque9621]

Scuttlebug Jamboree has been temporarily closed

[@netric9084]

Hello fellow mindustry fan

[@MattLowne]

Nice rocket, but I think your tracking station needs some repairs! ;)

[@whynotguy123]

Hey Matt!

[@MattLowne]

+Jonny Roberts Hey Jonny!

[@whynotguy123]

Matt Lowne Came across a bit vague but, I love your content! Keep it up!

[@MattLowne]

+Jonny Roberts Haha thanks. I'm filming an Eve mission at the moment but my laptop is struggling to run such a large craft at the moment, my game keeps crashing :( May have to hold fire on that project until I upgrade to a proper PC!

[@whynotguy123]

Matt Lowne It could be that blood memory limit, not the computer. Can't wait for 64bit, the memory limits so high that you might as well just call it unlimited. Oh and I like your new intro, bless After Effects and timeline keying.

[@6Twisted]

That ion stage was beautiful. You don't see many ion designs.

[@bohij3030]

creatures with freakishly small heads? I heard rumours that they also have 5 fingers and weird pink skin

[@andoniarmentia1024]

sounds horrible

[@joshuapreza6463]

And they made weapons!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TechnicalFR3AK]

+SSPS I heard...they hurt EACH OTHER! It's probably just a rumor though, they can't be that dumb can they? I'm sure Hersen Kerman will be back in a few millenniums to tell us all about them! It's not like anything bad might happen to him once he gets there...

[@buttersquids]

+GenericSprite I've heard that they even intentionally kill millions of each other using huge exploding things that explode bigger than a whole space center full of rocket fuel! Surely my friend wasn't being honest though, right? Right?

[@arnekristofferbhler3905]

+SSPS and have a sent detector on there faces and freakishly small eyes

[@raintrain9921]

I wonder what the average time between something being introduced into the game (stock or mod) and that thing being used in asparagus staging. January 1st 2023: hey guys we added warp drives to ksp January 2nd 2023: *asparagus staged warp rocket to Andromeda in 8 seconds*

[@Tyhros]

you could warp drive asparagus if you have a large warp drive with large energy supply, carrying a smaller warp drive with smaller energy supply. You dump the bigger one once it runs out of power, and then you fire up the smaller one. This way you could double your warp range, and decrease your travel time also.

[@InitiateDee]

I mean who knows what KSP2 will have when you think about it

[@cabbit3008]

@@InitiateDee it will have orion drives 100%

[@imsonicnoob2112]

That aged well

[@raintrain9921]

@@imsonicnoob2112 my god I forgot about this comment

[@J7Handle]

Almost 0.05% of the speed of light! Amazing! Jesus...

[@bythetimeyoufinishedreadin9083]

You do realize its just a game right...

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

it's not just a game, it is a physics sandbox, it's literally rocket science.

[@bythetimeyoufinishedreadin9083]

Mikail Elchanovanich Um no...it's a game. Orbiter is a much more realistic physics sandbox....KSP is just for fun.

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

i never said it wasn't for fun, i never said it wasn't a game, i said it wasn't JUST a game, i've learned more from my 60 odd hours in KSP about astrophysics than i did in school for the whole time i was there. it's impressive to do things in this game due to the knowledge required, that's why it's amazing; it amounts to no real world achievement, but it's still a challenging task.

[@bythetimeyoufinishedreadin9083]

Mikail Elchanovanich *Things you learn in ksp are*... 1. Difference between Apoapsis and Periapsis 2. How velocity affects those two things 3. Basic forces of aerodynamics 4. Basic understanding of Newton's laws of motion Everything else is pure gameplay. It's really just a game. *Things you learn in School about astrophysics are*.... • Basic Astronomical Motions - Earth’s Orbital Motion • Mathematical Applications: Angular Measure • Astronomical Timekeeping • The Measurement of Distance • Mathematical Applications: Measuring Distances with Geometry • The Laws of Planetary Motion Evening • Newton’s Laws & Newtonian Mechanics • Mathematical Applications: Orbits • Information from the Skies • Waves in What? • The Electromagnetic Spectrum • Thermal Radiation • Mathematical Applications: Wein’s Law and Stefan’s Law • The Doppler Effect • Mathematical Applications: Measuring Velocities with the Doppler Effect • Spectral Lines • Atoms and Radiation • Mathematical Applications: The Hydrogen Atom • The Formation of Spectral Lines • Lab Exercise: Observation of Spectra from Spectrometer and Gas Discharge Tube • Molecules • Spectral Line Analysis • Review Problems • Physical Properties of the Sun • The Solar Interior • The Sun’s Atmosphere • Solar Magnetism • The Active Sun • The Heart of the Sun • Mathematical Applications: Fundamental Forces • Mathematical Applications: Energy Generation in Proton-Proton Chain • Lab Exercise: Making Solar Observations with a Sun Spotter • Discovery Readings & Discussion: SOHO: Eavesdropping on the Sun and Solar Terrestrial Relations • Review Problems • The Solar Neighborhood • Luminosity and Apparent Brightness • Stellar Temperatures • Mathematical Applications: The Magnitude •Scale • The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram • Computer Simulated Lab Exercise: The Classification of Stellar Spectra (Project CLEA) Evening • Extending the Cosmic Distance Scale •Mathematical Applications the Main Sequence (cont.) • Stellar Masses • Mathematical Applications: Measuring Stellar Masses in Binary Stars • Mass and Other Stellar Properties • Review for Quiz #1 Afternoon • Quiz #1 - Chapters 1 - 4, 16 - 17 • Interstellar Matter • Emission Nebulae • Dark Dust Clouds Evening • 21-Centimeter Radiation • Interstellar Molecules • Discovery Readings & Discussion: Ultraviolet Astronomy and the “Local Bubble” • Review Problems Chapter 19: • Star-Forming Regions • The Formation of Starts Like the Sun Afternoon • Stars of Other Masses • Shock Waves and Star Formation • Star • Observations of Brown Dwarfs; Eta Carinae • Leaving the Main Sequence • Evolution of a Sun-like Star • Mathematical Applications: The CNO Cycle • The Death of a Low-Mass Star • Observing Stellar Evolution in Star Clusters • Stellar Evolution in Binary Systems Evening • Discovery Readings & Discussion: Learning Astronomy; History and Mass Loss from Giant Stars • Review Problems • Life and Death for White Dwarfs • The End of High-Mass Stars • Supernovae • The Formation of the Elements • The Cycle of Stellar Evolution • Computer Simulated Lab Exercise: Dying Stars and the Birth of the Elements (Project CLEA) Evening • Discovery Readings & Discussion: Supernova 1987A; The Crab Nebula in Motion • Review Problems Supernovae, and the Formation of the • Neutron Stars • Pulsars • Holes: Morning Strange States of Matter Neutron-Star Binaries • Black Holes • Einstein’s Theory of Relativity • Mathematical Applications: Special Relativity • Space Travel Near Black Holes Evening • Observational Evidence for Black Holes • Discovery Readings & Discussion: Gravity Waves: A New Window on the Universe • Mathematical Applications: Tests of General Relativity • Review Problems • Our Parent Galaxy • Measuring the Milky Way • Galactic Structure • The Formation of the Milky Way • Galactic Spiral Arms • The Mass of the Milky Way • The Galactic Center • Review for Quiz #2 Chapter 24: • Hubble’s Galaxy Classification • The Distribution of Galaxies in Space • Hubble’s Law • Active Galactic Nuclei Mathematical Applications • Computer Simulated Lab Exercise: The Hubble Redshift Distance Relation (Project CLEA) Evening • Review Problems Chapter 25: • Dark Matter in the Universe • Galaxy Collisions • Galaxy Formation and Evolution Afternoon • Black Holes in Galaxies • The Universe on Large Scales Evening • Discovery Readings & Discussion: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey • The Universe on the Largest Scales • The Expanding Universe • The Fate of the Cosmos Afternoon • The Geometry of Space • Mathematical Applications: Curved Space • Will the Universe Expand Forever? • Dark Energy and Cosmology Evening • The Cosmic Microwave Background • Discovery Readings & Discussion: A Stunning View of Deep Space; Einstein and the Cosmological Constant • Review Problems • Back to the Big Bang • The Evolution of the Universe • Mathematical Applications: More on Fundamental Forces • The Formation of Nuclei and Atoms • The Inflationary Universe • The Formation of the Structure of the Universe • Cosmic Structure and the Microwave Background • Review for Post-Assessment Evening • Cosmic Evolution • Intelligent Life in the Galaxy • Mathematical Applications: The Drake Equation • The Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence ------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever taken an astrophysics Course in School? This was from a high school astrophysics syllabus....

[@hologrampizza5432]

All that from a rocket only the size of the Saturn V!

[@FrankyBabes]

+Hologrampizza On a planet about 1/10 the size of Earth, remember!

[@FrankyBabes]

+Ariyan Ahmed Yes but it's still easier to escape Kerbin than to escape Earth. The rockets needed with Real Solar System are much much larger

[@irisho5027]

+Ariyan Ahmed In KSP you only need 2 km/s to orbit kerbin. On earth or in the real solar system mod, you need 7 km/s.

[@irisho5027]

***** Orbiting Kerbin at 17 km/s is impossible. Once you reach that speed you are on an escape trajectory. The 2km/s and 7km/s figure I mentioned is at LKO (Low kerbin orbit) and LEO (Low earth orbit) respectively.

[@irisho5027]

+Ariyan Ahmed huh that doesn't make sense. So you managed to have a craft orbit kerbin with only 200 m/s worth of delta-v?

[@connormackay7098]

This was hilarious. I love how Hensen was sitting in his little one-Kerbal capsule for 45 years while he waited to complete that long orbit around the sun to get close.

[@Malfunct1onM1ke]

Goodbye Hersen, you wont be remembered :)

[@Musicrafter12]

Hersen Kerman, the name of the poor Kerbal traveling at 103 km/s

[@naoyeee]

@@sethk.3084 THE GUY WHO WAS TRAVELLING IN THE POD

[@WyattXD]

escaping the suns gravity while overheating reminded me of that scene in Interstellar where the endurance was trying to use the black hole's momentum to get to the last planet...

[@Electroblud]

That's 1/30 of 1% lightspeed! Daymn!...

[@joshuapreza6463]

How about the kerbal light speed

[@oliverturner1649]

+FUNKYBULL SHRIMP There is no kerbal lightspeed. (unless you're on a low-end rig i guess.. then the game just crashes)

[@chrisb7870]

This game/project and many others leave me wondering if NASA has a hand in the funding of this game for 'crowd funded research'

[@aubrey_d]

+Chris Bandfield NASA has collaborated with them, they're the reason some big parts are in the game and why you can do asteroid redirect missions

[@a.j.4076]

Elon Musk is also known to have supported Squad and KSP... :D

[@dhaneshsharma4487]

Giant soyuz

[@Gofrete1]

salyut!!!

[@jeffvader811]

Gofrete1 Really it was a giant R7 booster.

[@Gofrete1]

Jeff Vader you don't understand in russian language "slayut" it's " hello" x)

[@jeffvader811]

Oh right, I was confused because Salyut was the name of the Soviet space stations.

[@Gofrete1]

no problem dude i know what you talking about

[@Phasguy]

"No video speed up" but game speed up

[@deleteduser1603]

Would you want to wait 1000 years?

[@skarmoryfly]

"Strange creatures with very small heads only 4 light years away" Just in case you don't get that, Humans live 4 light years away from Proxima Centaury... So he's basically saying they're going to see us humans from Proxima Centaury... I might be wrong

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

Simply breathtaking. How did you do the staging during the Ion burn? I.e. did you just set a reminder for when the next staging should happen or did you use a mod to do it automatically?

[@turbopumped6490]

No reminders no mods, I had to pay attention all the time - since all ion engines draws fuel from all xenon tanks (fuel pipes dont work) I had to block fuel in all tanks exept the active aspargus stage, and when that was ejected unblock the next stage. Also had to constantly angle the solar panels - to much sun exposure and they would produce negative current, too little meant less thrust . However with 4 x time acceleration the burn was "only" 3 hours.

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

+Turbo Pumped I don't think I would have the patience to do that... Probably just be lazy and let mechjeb take care of it :P

[@Breakthroughsoftware]

+Turbo Pumped Ion engines were made to draw fuel in staging order several patches ago. If that has been broken you should submit a bug report.

[@FiNiTe_weeb]

+Turbo Pumped Wait, you can now overload solars?

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

+FiNiTe I have no idea if KSP models this, but in real life solar panels get less efficient as they heat up.

[@innosam123]

How to get more delta-V on this cheaply- 1. More efficient engines (like an SSME, or aerospikes. 2. Larger Ion Stage 3. Unmanned Craft 4. Making the overall rocket smaller, and/or expanding the "payload" of the NTR and ION stages, so that the NTR and ION stages do all of the in-space burns, rather than the chemical engines starting them, as in this video....

[@traniel123456789]

+Ian Brandon Anderson Hes doing no mods. Mods are kindof stupid for pushing limits like he does.

[@innosam123]

He could still use Aerospikes for more efficiency. The other 2 can still be done w/o mods.

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

+Ian Brandon Anderson Where would aerospikes have been better? On the first stage they would have driven the part count up for very little benefit. On all subsequent stages they would have been worse.

[@innosam123]

+N727 But the extra ISP makes up for it.

[@shusch3629]

Just get 20 cubic km of griffon century engines from kW rocketry

[@madcatlover7554]

I had you beat, 50 million m/s thanks to a glitch with the grabbyclaw

[@justinc2633]

i did that today lol, i was suppose to retrieve something for someone and the game had a seizure and flung me away it incredible speeds

[@gioworno]

*laughs in 192 septillion m/s*

[@emknight84]

This little maneuver just cost us 50 years.

[@joshuametcalf3061]

That fairing separation would have looked majestic with the new 1.1 clamshell fairings.

[@Maxisokol]

"ONLY 11000 years to go" Ending the video on a high note. :D Amazing job, well done mate! :)

[@dmitrilebedev8635]

Yeah, apoapse of an eccentric orbit is a great place for most of maneuvers, discovered that too. Very impressive, well done!

[@imsonicnoob2112]

That’s what hersen gets for stealing bob’s lunch

[@ShoreVietam]

My fastest ever screenshot is 88,888.9 m/s with a tiny sattelite that still had like ~310 liquid fuel and a LV/N and after separation an ion engine with 1400 xenon in it. But I used it to break and lower the orbit around the sun instead of accellerating further. Well, I think you cannot get to ~5,500 km above Kerbol any more without melting. :P

[@doodlefox9837]

Very nice! the most impressive thing about this is your patience in my oppinion! :) I'm pretty good at building things that would work if only my patience would be on par with the build quality.

[@michaelmaley6744]

To get to the Sun faster you can use Jool to perform a gravitational assist braking maneuver so that you basically fall into the Sun after passing in front of Jool. This maneuver can be pretty fuel efficient too.

[@biletv9565]

Goodbye, Hersen Kerman! see you 11000 years later here!

[@tequestaorangejuice6673]

The gravity assist and rocket are both pretty realistic. But even if nasa did find evidence of life, they wouldn't send a manned mission. They would send an unmanned probe to the system. And they wouldn't wait thousands of years. They would try to develop technology that would make the probe get there in a couple of decades or less. Then after that, they would do a multiple hundred person space mission that would take several decades to a few centuries. They would never send 1 person crew to represent humanity. No human has ever gone to space alone since the 1960s.

[@mikedonovan9033]

... I did

[@SMGJohn]

+Acre ! There is talks about sending very small crafts to Alpha Centuri using lasers to push it to 25% of the speed of light. So it would reach within a century.

[@lancefried3577]

The most feasible way of achieving this with current technology is thousands of nano probes with solar sails each propelled by kW lasers on Earth. They'd reach something like 20-30% the speed of light where even a stray hydrogen atom could decimate the craft, hence the need for a swarm.

[@FutureAIDev2015]

Kinda looks like an INSANE version of the R7 Semyorka

[@keithherndier]

Yep,

[@adrian3482]

Watching complex rockets decouple is the most satisfying thing in the game.

[@stepver2273]

imagine if he made a ship that went faster than light

[@calaphos]

That Launcher looks so great!!

[@turbopumped6490]

Glad you liked it :) Getting the look i wanted and still make it work well as a launcher was surprisingly difficult . It was a nightmare to get rid of the wobbling .

[@oberonpanopticon]

At last, the origin of “And besides, it worked in kerbal space program”

[@lememz]

0,0005% of the speed of light

[@zeljkonenadov6168]

I think it's 0.05% the speed of light

[@BLACK-STALKER]

Overcome the speed of 300 000 kilometers per second without cheats!

[@tsgaerospace]

this is the first time i have seen asparagus staged ion stages

[@azmanabdula]

@Turbo Pumped I have to say, its Asparagus staging... Cool videos, subbed!

[@skylinevspec000]

Awesome videos. I also love the music. Im reading tractor sales brocures while watching your video and its like ive never done something so epic!

[@tristunalekzander5608]

By the time he gets there they will have already invented long distance teleportation and regularly commute between Kerbin.

[@volvo245]

That would be a weird way to make first contact, sending astronaut/kerbonaut popsicles back and forth for eons.

[@WhovianMinecrafter]

I know I'm late, but I never thought I'd see asparagus staging for xenon

[@moth4256]

i know im late, but me too

[@Me88321]

Asparagus staging ion engines, that's a new one.

[@ryanm.191]

It's ok, if you hungry, just raid the snacks drawer.

[@jakethespaceman9896]

That's right. Do feel bad, nasa.

[@pauliefox2077]

so kerbol is what the kerbals named their home system's star of proxima centori A?

[@cyrk75]

guess so .

[@crowing7]

“Kerbol” is a fan-made portmanteau of “Kerbal” and “Sol” - the Latin name for the real-life Sun. Before version 0.11, which introduced an object for KSP's parent star and an orbital Map view where it was explicitly named, it was an unnamed directional light source at infinite distance. Fans on the KSP forums invented and popularized the name. According to the wiki

[@MrNight-dg1ug]

+crowing LOL

[@jasonciola1783]

You should put a link in the description that allows us to download the files for these awesome beasts you make

[@RepublicofMarsGaming]

2 years later, the FTL Drive is invented

[@marshalrando6767]

Brilliant thinking sir.👏👏👏 I'm impressed!

[@Reyeoux]

Theoretically an Antimatter Rocket could reach speeds of up to 100000 km/s, enough to reach Alpha Centauri in a couple of years. Alpha Centauri is one of the places in the universe where life may be possible. You can store Antimatter in a theoretical Penning Trap which uses EM fields to contain the Antimatter. You don't need to spend trillions on making Antimatter either, as it is generated naturally in deep space via high speed collisions between cosmic rays and stuff. Several tonnes of the stuff drifts into the Solar System annually and gathers around planets such as Jupiter with their strong Magnetic Fields, and it forms rings. We have the technology to make Antimatter rockets possible and go even faster than in this video, as soon as Nasa pulls their heads out their arses and does something more useful than the occasional probe

[@josephpentony4804]

Penning Trap doesn’t work for large quantities of antimatter needed for interstellar travel.

[@Reyeoux]

Oh wow this comment still exists

[@jeffwayne3054]

I want to like every single video in your channel!

[@SpaceCat36]

Meanwhile, Danny is launching kerbals at 58674732661781.7m/s (~195718C) using a centrifuge built from stock parts

[@alexsiemers7898]

Just remember that he used infinite fuel, while this actually consumed fuel over time!

[@OneRedKraken]

Awesome, I think you're more than ready to go for RSS and RO. You need just about 9k DV to launch in LEO. :)

[@OneRedKraken]

***** I'd go a step further and just say RSS > Stock. :D

[@justinc2633]

ive reached speeds which absolutely dwarf this, 1. get an advanced grabbing unit 2. set pivot freely and spin in circles 3. time warp then go back to regular time The game will have a seizure and u will fly out of the solar system at 100x this speed

[@stevenkravitz6377]

Waisted a several hundred m/s^2 of delta-V by transferring directly to Jool. It is much more efficient to gravity assist off of Eve and then do two gravity assists off Kerbin to get the Jool transfer.

[@Crimsonedge1]

I didn't even need to look at the yellow timer to know that lagged to sh*t during launch. :D

[@shusch3629]

The intelligent life was later dubbed by future kerbals"The Human"...

[@HyouMix]

No way Human Can Be That Longer Lives In A Rocket Ship

[@calebjosef6248]

Jesus Christ i can't imagine a person alive who can read the text fast enough before it changes

[@natsirt9809]

so 103,000 m/s is just over 1/30 the speed of light. This craft would take about 120 years to reach the nearest star to our solar system.

[@alexwimmer5198]

I managed to get to 104km/s with like 15 followed up single-tank stages of xenon for final acceleration and heavy abuse of jool gravity assists, wondering if with the more efficient sundive strategy it would be faster (I did mine in the outer solar system because aiming at a target is easier that way)

[@HeisenbergTAC]

Once i wanted to land my SSTO, but it got destroyed and the cockpit bugged out of the planet. Then i moved with the max speed far away from the sun. The number of the speed was so high that i couldnt see it all. Like few quadtrillion m/s. I made some screenshots and clips lol

[@MrMario4president]

Squad should add a procedural generation engine to KSP to make other systems visitable.

[@alexsiemers7898]

Who knew an ion thrust could be so dramatic!

[@pyrusrex2882]

That was ridiculous. I've been playing for 2 years and just fuckin' figured out that you can click all those neat SAS symbols to the left of the navball. Facepalm

[@xander2853]

Theoretically you might be able to get better full to dry mass ratios by bringing ore tanks and converting to xenon as you use it. the ratio for xenon tanks is 4 but the ratio for ore tanks is 8.5

[@UncleHoChiMemes]

if its is a Earthling , surely already dead in the speed of 103 000 m/s

[@griptape1781]

And i felt accomplished to get a space lada to orbit...

[@michaelstankowski4389]

remember to have enough dV to brake at the new solar system

[@joaotoscani2605]

0,34% of the light speed

[@milky_wayan]

Isn't this the method proposed for the NIAC "Innovative Interstellar Explorer"?

[@MalcolmCooks]

should have called the ion stage mario because it builds speed for 12 hours

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

All I want to know is how you prevented your fairings from exploding on the launchpad.

[@raycullender9783]

WOW, do you have a craft file available, if so can you please upload it to somewhere we can access it, you've made something amazing here, not just for speed but I didn't recognise half the parts you used! you are either very talented or I have less than 5 hours in kerbal, good luck for future projects!(I doubt you'll need it)

[@gracekingdom949]

In real life. Your rocket is now molten.

[@Evalend_]

The nav ball at the end😂

[@Roov4]

Awesome! Could be even more efficient if all the nosecones you had on your boosters would had bin filled with fuel too.

[@joshuapreza6463]

More fuel is more heavy

[@alexvel9907]

103 000 m/s is Only ~0.03436% of Light Speed 299 792 458 m/s. this is the fastest speed I've seen in KSP

[@ph08nyx]

Это видео в очередной раз доказывает что для нас даже в теории звезды не достижимы.

[@TheNavalAviator]

That's how it's done, theoretically...

[@Spiz103]

This makes me wish there was another star system in KSP, even if it just a distant binary at a few hundred AU.

[@catgoesgaming]

few HUNDRED? do you mean a few (hundred) lightyears?

[@Spiz103]

@@catgoesgaming no, because we wouldn't get to do anything with it at that distance, a distant binary at a few hundred AU is a much more reasonable target for missions

[@herb._.]

This is why we love you

[@tadkins3204]

well gotta go set my calendar for that day

[@TheOmegagoldfish]

Had they glitched through Jool, they would have exceeded lightspeed.

[@landonthielen7973]

Omegagoldfish 1469716993169c's! gotta love danny

[@dutchygaming8632]

some say he is still out there

[@KleszczuPK]

awesome! I hope he took enough games to last 11 000 years :)

[@traniel123456789]

+Grzesiek B. he will only need ksp 1.0. There is no more content to be desired. Other than v 1.1 of course.

[@tonylester8383]

It hit the distant planet at over 100k m/s destroying its atmosphere and everyone on planet. The now devastated race is building a ship now to destroy Kerbin in response. Going to do my own and see what happens. Does their solar system have a limit.

[@hubbletrubble7875]

This shows how huge space is

[@etherealharmony1978]

One time in a game (all stock) I tried landing on even but my ship glitched and launched me at over 300 trillion meters per second out of the solar system. I ended up going so far that in less than 4 seconds my game showed nothing but space and when I opened the map it was blank. Then my game crashed...

[@TheKaos90]

Damn, how many real time hours did the ion stage last ? damn, that's crazy

[@jacob.rausch]

ive gotten sonething going 267k meters per second that im pretty sure is due to a bug in decoupling a lower stage

[@noodlywisdom]

A way to get it going even faster would be to d a maneuver to Jool the the Sun. Then Jools Gr-a-vty would fling you even faster!

[@cyrk75]

at 103 km/s a close jool flyby would be close to pointless

[@tacticalbacon7386]

2:13 add in Stay by Hans Zimmer.

[@krosisen]

Its like star trek iv: the voyage home

[@thefederalrepublicoferusea3900]

You mean Star Trek: voyager

[@pinruihuang8463]

dear kerbals, its us

[@SMD234WG]

Nice job, Kerbals.

[@therealdefoma]

the rocket looks like a soyuz^2