KSP: Testing and Flying 29 Different Starship Prototypes! (I lost my mind)

I went through a LOT of test vehicles when developing my Starship recreation for a previous video, here is the painful prototyping process.
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• KSP: Recreating the Sp...
Music Attribution:
Winter The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, by John Harrison CC BY-SA cc license 3.0

[@MattLowne]

stasrhip

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What an amazing comment. Bravo the human race has peaked

[@kaanozturkler6277]

Yes

[@sottyify]

How did u make the engines look like that? The thrust out the back? Which mod?

[@rozlanypyn2049]

@@sottyify waterfall

[@tr4cerrounds]

Rapid unscheduled disassembly: the video

[@HeidenLam]

Or “How Not to Land an Orbital Starship”

[@WhitzWolf92]

Catastrophic Rapid Unplanned/Unscheduled Disassembly (not my joke, someone said it on the KSP subreddit a few years ago)

[@sethjansson5652]

@@HeidenLam I'm anticipating that video from SpaceX...

[@barnabaskral]

Matt Lowne is playing real life in ksp, Elon Musk is playing ksp in real life

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Im the z137 the like

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Matt musk Elon Lowne

[@svenskahugo3199]

chicken and the egg

[@dustinswatsons9150]

Looks like SpaceX implemented such a nice SAS algorithm

[@augustinplagne7543]

This is as funny as " How not to land an orbital rocket booster" . Elon should do a starship version

[@frogsecretaryofswamp452]

After the first crewed starship land

[@Mac33299]

How not to land an interplanetary class spaceship

[@LostSonOfPluto]

Matt is a consistent source of "oh boy 3am" moments for me. And I wouldn't have it any other way

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

'100m off the surface' Matt doesn't know the difference between sea-level and ground level confirmed?

[@therookiegamer2727]

timestamp?

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

@@therookiegamer2727 6:14

[@fribigy47]

Yes

[@Arthur-jx8bm]

"Nonetheless I was satisfied with the result of the SN6 and 7 and obviously all other previous star ships that came before them"... Didn't we just watch all those SN's die miserably apart from SN6 and 7 who also crashed spectacularly?

[@MattLowne]

😎

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:)

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69th like 🪱🪱🪱🪱

[@fribigy47]

Yes

[@goldgamercommenting2990]

@@MattLowne 0:01 you made me died laughing

[@synthicalmix]

Theorie: Matt's arm got hurt some time ago because he was in a starship explosion...

[@burnee_dragon]

**theory*

[@jasu5650]

mm gramor polis

[@scubaduckk]

yes grammor we love to use grammur

[@Flyguy4500]

@@scubaduckk yes gramer

[@pythontg3474]

@@scubaduckk we are gramers

[@manmen9600]

Matt, have you looked at FMRS? it encompasses your method of quicksaving and loading for landing boosters, but allows you to recover the boosters too, by adding the seperated booster back to the main save after landing.

[@ironagent45]

He pretty much always mentions it whenever he does a video like that. He says that he wants to keep the missions stock

[@hey_how_are_ya]

12:29 We can never forget that patreon“M”

[@nervun8097]

So that's what you and the bois where doing on VC

[@antonloof752]

Whenever i do vertical propulsion landings i set SAS to radial out and then you can make fine adjustments using wasd to cancel out any horisontal velocity

[@aaronstevens7021]

Use radial out when close to the ground and at low speeds to keep the vehicle upright!

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Don’t tell Matt: tell poor old Elon.

[@UnclePie-]

29? Musk is still on rookie numbers then 😁

[@UnclePie-]

@Aiden McCrillis I've lost count of how many SNs I've tried to fly...

[@RailsofForney]

Dude…wow. *DISGUSTED*

[@Wurtoz9643]

Guys we got there eventually.

[@LSF17]

A Matt Lowne video will NEVER get old!

[@LimeJuice0308]

Commentator: “you don’t pressure Matt” Also commentator: “you better do this Matt!”

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

Gotta love being an hour late cause your body decided that it wanted 9 hours of sleep and you're still tired when you wake up

[@ChevronQ]

This was awesome 😌 More like this please! I love behind the scenes stuff so much 😌

[@derfvcderfvc7317]

The physics in KSP is so good. Those prototypes flew, fell, crashed, and landed almost identical to the real life Starship prototypes.

[@n1elkyfan]

I really enjoyed this. Getting to see the behind the scenes and testing of the rocket gave me a nice planet coaster vibe. Still miss watching those.

[@supercubflyer8962]

That looks fun

[@TrayTerra]

Every bit of this, from the music to the tests and commentary 👏 love it.

[@zacharykoplin6543]

When you are coming in to land, click Radial Out instead of Stability Assist. It’ll keep it upright and you’ll still be able to control it

[@DeltaSucks]

This is a visual representation of me trying to do homework when my dad is screaming what's 4x7

[@TheTokuin]

pro-tip, switch stability assist/retrograde for radial out when you are below 100 m/s. That way, if you kill your velocity too early, you won't translate as much and it will be easier to recover. You can also kill translation with rcs in docking mode while pointed radial out.

[@bertnilsson6441]

This was one of the better videos you have made imo, if you ever create a rocket like this again i’d love to see the same type of video again.

[@pixelfencer]

5:04 “SN:17 hit the ground to hard”

[@harshitsrivastava3042]

Ah yes, the best youtuber is ready to lose his mind

[@Glub009]

I tried making a starship recreation, but yours look so much insanely better.

[@Avewyowo]

"The brave victe-I mean brave pilots are on board" Sus

[@michaelafton4253]

Matt, I LOVE your videos. There is something I was wondering. Can you maybe try building a death star? (Not to scale of course, that's ludicrous.) I'm not demanding that, not at all. I was just wondering. And o truly do love your videos!

[@mrchew5326]

I loved the change of format for this video. I thought it was really well done

[@tomvandijk9706]

Lowne aerospace is doing well under the control of this Mattlad

[@Viraaj_Gamer1KSP_]

I came back to this video to see that your SN25 made a 99% Orbital Flight Test só maybe Starship 25 and Booster 9 will work as well!

[@SydamorHD]

So you finally reached the milestone of 420k subs, congrats! ^^

[@nootonian4149]

Yay a nice video to watch while eating dinner

[@ZeeroGamingTV]

had to laugh so hard when i saw the title thank you! Also i love four seasons, perfect background music.

[@matyastorok8624]

Well, it was a ton of fun to watch it live.

[@johnburr9463]

Radial out as you approach the ground is a much safer way to land pointing straight up. Even helps when you accidentally start going up again.

[@Shortcircuit220]

It was a fun video. Would watch again

[@thatoneorion4khd]

Make a giant space station with only sstos,space shuttles and starships

[@sabersight908]

i love that the Prototype faze is its own video xD that explains a lot

[@markos.5539]

This is waay more fun than i thought 😅

[@estrogenizedbird9161]

I love hearing you rag on space x

[@TaurusSpace]

oh this is gonna be fun to watch :D

[@regentwaynekerr]

I'm convinced one day that Matt will make a space station the size of the mun

[@robertvogt2855]

Please keep speed running the space race. It is my favorite series!

[@linkink8423]

the way he said -our crew survived '' -but sn10's crew didn't'' -you couldn't argue that they didn't had a crew"'

[@gonuhi]

Ayyyyy I join matt discord server I got a notification 1 second before youtube join matts discord server😁😁

[@fractalelf7760]

You should have an Elon Kerman test pilot :)

[@paulwalsh2344]

Typical awesome Matt LowneX video !

[@unwoundsteak17]

"hopefully the real SN16 will do better than my SN16 equivalent" well at least the real one is in one piece

[@lorisperfetto6021]

It's starship time i guess

[@rbxless]

The brave victims- I mean, brave p-pilots!

[@tund7035]

Everyone gangsta until Matt does 29 starships

[@bautistamercader4737]

Make a video creating a giant doace station with starship with skylab size modules, given that they have a perfect weight for the starship and it's volum fits perfectly

[@folcr3104]

Love the 9th symphony at the beginning

[@aurelio3532]

ajahah so many booms! have you ever considered using the joints mod that makes them stronger?

[@pv40privatevtol12]

9:43 explosion 💥 again

[@randomrobloxuploads3153]

Log: SN01 - SN05: Immediate explosion SN06 - SN07: Launch was successful but touched down a little bit hard when landing SN08: Refused to get off the launch pad SN09 - SN11: Launch was successful but inappropriate vertical landing SN12: Successful vertical takeoff and landing SN13: Inappropriate vertical landing SN14: Touched down a little bit hard when landing SN15: Did a flip SN16 - SN17: Touched down a little bit too hard SN18: Incorrect approach, tilted and exploded SN19: Lost velocity and landed a bit too hard SN20 - SN21: Inappropriate vertical landing SN22: Successful vertical takeoff and landing with suspense provided by the audience SN23 - SN24: Touched down a little bit hard (this time with crew) SN25 (Mounted on Superheavy): Lost velocity multiple times and crew had to eject SN26: Touched down a little bit too hard and had crashed onto the headquarters SN27: Touched down a little bit too hard SN28: Looked fine at first but then toppled because of the bouncy landing legs' recoil SN29: First successful hopped attempt with crew please take note I don't play KSP and I'm just casually commenting on this video :)

[@pjludda4323]

Poor Jeb...He must be wondering what horrible thing he's done in a prior life to constantly going through the hell of dying, repeatedly, for an indiscriminate amount of time... :'(

[@Shortkidnextdoor]

Arson, Accidental manslaughter, tax evasion, Rapid unscheduled disassembly

[@cat-nl4sv]

funny how this got recommended to me TODAY.

[@terrencegoens1582]

I use my rudder pedals for my flight Sims to control my rear flaps and use the pitch commands to control the nose cone fins. I've been bale to glide it and begin to fly hopefully will start my own ksp channel soon 😂

[@franciscomaio4612]

Did you noticed he said the Jorge Lukas' meme frase : its like poetry it rimes?

[@zindleethan2061]

Idea for next video is doing the Artimis mission including the lgss and the sls even tho they aren't real yet

[@braylonwilliams2300]

SLS is real already

[@olsted67]

Indeed. Matt has surly lost his mind.

[@wikjo3985]

i was there! on discord when you streamed this.

[@fengli3539]

I’m thinking about adding more landing gears to the ship which I think might give it a greater chance lol (imagine what people would’ve said if they saw the whole spaceship coming down to blow them up 10:48 lol) there must be a dozen craters left after the spaceship crashing and a few deaths not counting the astronauts because there might be a few people in the building while pieces of metal hit them in the face from the rocket i’m not telling you what happens if you add too much landing gears

[@fengli3539]

If you add too much land gears you’ll fly back into space by bouncing and fall back to earth not on the landing gear then explode

[@Notaname21]

Ah, I love rapid unscheduled disassemblies

[@406]

The brave victe-I mean brave pilots are on board" - Good save.

[@aurelio3532]

you should try using the radial up for descent after you havve killed all of the horizontal velocity

[@StevieMoto]

As realistic as ksp is in a way... It shows you how difficult space irl is. So props to space x for even being able to land the real starship within a couple of attempts!!!

[@alifio2183]

Use real star system and feel the true pain of sending rockets to the moon... or to orbit at all..

[@baddspacesquad]

383 also matt you need to do pre flight tests like static fire cryo proof test ambient pressure tests you also need alot more prototypes and i mean alot more you also need test tanks a tank farm construction site making parts and rings and engines separately like at another location and then bring them like with a car or truck and then stack the parts if you can in game hopefully and have aborts and more but nonetheless you did good

[@superfelix5068]

You should try using radial out. It really helps with the landings.

[@Freeflyer91]

When you're at very low speed in the hover, use radial out instead of just stability or retrograde. Saves a lot of RUD ;)

[@alonsodsoto4466]

10:50 Osama: I have an idea!

[@zulu1]

5:50 me who was in the discord vc during testing: "did it though?"

[@lynxspatial]

I love the vivaldi winter!

[@bigdogben]

Why is this my favorite video.

[@akhtarisatria]

one of the reasons why radial out button is important when landing something vertically

[@StarlordMatteo120]

I love how he said around the world tens of people watching him 7:37

[@rastaboy_gamesnstuff7778]

Sub 1 min arrival! Wooot hello from the stubborn USA

[@chrisw2301]

I was in the discord call near the end explaining the disasters of the 5 wheeled rover due to lack of symetry

[@rejeanhorn6304]

Matt you should install RSS RO RP1. It would be great to see you just relearn the game again.

[@ThePhantomRocket]

ayy mat if you click the water symbol it changes to your height above terrain instead of sea level

[@pythondemonstrationen9869]

NASA be like: well, it was not quite as successful as it‘s predecessor... BUT nonetheless we were satisfied and ready to send it up with crew onboard...

[@masterquacc]

Now you just gotta do this in ksp2

[@grim13reapper]

The ship needs more power so it can slow down more efficiently at landing

[@zachjackson4129]

i just realized that matt has 420k subs, noice

[@b04faustinoyurialexies.77]

RUD #1-#29=Spectacular

[@blompertz7]

Men if it is that hard to make this working in ksp then i can't imagine how hard it can be to make it work in real life

[@annamariegretzmier3316]

Ngl I enjoyed this video more than the actual video lol

[@xenowreborn]

"You could argue that's because they didn't HAVE a crew, but that's really...a pretty poor excuse in my view"

[@bs_blackscout]

Yes, more

[@butchmreyes2525]

Good for you 😁

[@fearguscasbolt2157]

The choice of music 👌

[@CreatorBrix]

The superheavy crash’s look so realistic

[@yveson830etorma7]

"The Brave Victims- I Mean Brave Pilots Are In There"💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Vessekx]

29 different prototypes. Less than 13 minutes. Wow. That’s some short flights!

[@ThePhantomRocket]

The ocean is pretty flat 9:00 Also, Matt, Do you use the stock waterfall configs?