Laythe And Back With Only SRBs - KSP Reddit Challenge

My super hard mode submission to the recent reddit challenge where I visit Laythe and return using only solid fuel and no parachutes! / weekly_challenge_week_...
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Music used (in order):
- Jean Michel Jarre: Calypso - Part 1
- Kevin Macleod: Cold Funk (outro music)
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[@NikkyElso]

You timed out a Jool encounter that would let you go straight to Layth, calculated the exact delta-V requirement for each stage of the mission, landed at Laythe (on Land!) (Without Parachutes!) Timed your return so that you could go straight up and burn straight to Kerbin, and go directly into kerbin's atmosphere from beyond escape velocity, and landed WITHOUT a God damned parachute again... Fucking madness

[@gavinjenkins899]

Pretty damn impressive, but not 100% precisely calculated up front: he used those piles of escapotrons or whatever they're called to have small kicks as needed for adjustment. Probably only for differences in exact launch profile and stuff though. 90% precise!

[@MushVPeets]

He carried Separatrons for correction burns, so not quite THAT perfect... But yes, definitely impressive. :D

[@digitsstuff6521]

The no parachutes part really got me...

[@baptistebauer99]

People saying "not THAT perfect" I made my first Mun land yesterday and :v made 50 quickloads

[@JoshSideris]

He did another trick that gave him a lot more leeway. Some of his burns, like the one at 3:20, were staged with multiple SRBs that he fired at opposite angles. Mathematically, the angled thrusts cancelled each other out, leaving only an arbitrary reduced forward thrust with very high precision. The thing that got me scratching my head was his lack of a heat-shield when entering Kerbin at 5km/s. Not sure if I'm buying this. Edit: just tested this exact payload stage. Burned up on entry at just 4km/s, even with a heatshield.

[@casualbird7671]

My god, setting up the staging for all of those sepratrons must have been more of a hell than calculating the proper trajectories.

[@gigabic7487]

a literal hell consisting entirely of sepratrons

[@c0gsthen3rd83]

+Gigabic LOL

[@adamsrealm]

That's one solid video :P

[@LoganNicholsonAstronomer]

***** dangit i was gonna say that

[@Oiledwonk]

DA PUNZ!

[@skjerviking7393]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@skyzip4k171]

Is that a f***Ing pun?

[@thanos8641]

God dammit

[@Kilbot192]

Looks like you're flying the empire state building...

[@hellocba9897]

john papple and crashing it into an airplane? oh god why did i say this

[@Ahsieh2]

william troy Oliva Still too soon? Lol. I thought it was funny. Can't stay sad forever.

[@osimmac]

+Ahsieh2 idk you shouldn't joke about 3000 people burning in a bulding. it was turrible

[@Danish_raven]

+Mike Cammiso dude that was 15 years ago

[@osimmac]

Danish Raven death sucks m8

[@ShadowZone]

I applaud you, dear sir!

[@reenadalton2634]

hi shadow zone

[@michaelpapadopoulos6054]

sees title wow sees actual video *WHOA*

[@Tehn00bA]

MORE BOO... Nevermind. Thats just enough boosters. Most kerbal engineered ship ever!

[@dominikkodziejczak3041]

There never to many booster! !!!

[@LeskiStation]

The planning and execution here is just incredible and absolutely flawless, I don't care how many takes this was... amazing! I've only seen two of your videos so far, but holy crap you have earned my Sub, please keep 'em coming!!

[@Hazardish]

Will do :)

[@Hazardish]

Two more uploads will come first - both are actually pretty close to being done. Should be better than the other two parts of the series - it's got a lot in it :)

[@gigabic7487]

You make scott manley look like a noob

[@ant9944]

He went to DUNA and back on one orange tank

[@Rotem_S]

snakegamer this guy went to laythe and back on none.

[@MrOverfloater]

מה קורה חזכלענזכרכ And unlike Scott Manley's mission, his craft remained complete the entire mission.

[@TooManyMinecrafting]

snakegamer Do you realise how much harder it is to get to Laythe? Duna is the easiest planet of them all...

[@scaprod558]

BoobyTrapGaming Not. I Can't Get To It But I Can Get To Jool.

[@OberonGames1]

That's a lot of desing and testing! I'm amazed how much effort you put in these videos! :D

[@Hazardish]

+Gulya - Nintendo Just wait until you see my next reddit challenge entry :P

[@OberonGames1]

I'm excited :DD

[@gracorossanigo4853]

Gulya - Nintendo ok but he use a cheat, the g force find kill de herbal!

[@ProbablyGreeen]

I admire your ladder placement on this ship

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

What is your computer made from, and which race of aliens gave it to you?

[@nosredep7873]

i7 5820k QC 3.3GHz, GTX 970 16GB SLI/PCI3 1TBHDD, mine runs as smooth as his and I got it for $1500.

[@shady4091]

+Keneith Okleitskov (Leedleweed) Funny that NONE of those specs matter with KSP... Regardless of what you have, it only runs on one core, at 32bit so it will not use more than 2.5GB ram. It also utilizes CPU way more than GPU.

[@nosredep7873]

+shady4091 No sht, those obviously aren't optimal, they're overboard, but I have other games as well, dingus, and I like to play on ultra high settings

[@EliteGeeks]

+shady4091 Bullshit...

[@DallasHerrmann]

+shady4091 Individual core CPU clock speed is what really matters when it comes to KSP. There are ways to get 64 bit.

[@TrikeSquadron]

wow. amazing how you used the sepratrons to fine tune your trajectories. I expected you to use chutes at least. amazing.

[@MegaManX777]

dregerclock Who needs stinkin' chutes

[@MegaManX777]

dregerclock Who needs stinkin' chutes

[@Ryan123220]

Very nice! You never fail to amaze me Hazard-ish!

[@Nickgowans]

I would have done it with liquid fuel, recorded my exact DV usage during each burn, and then made a rocket from SRBs which have exactly the same DV on each burn as the liquid fuel version, then you only have to replicate the flight and accommodate for tiny variations thanks to human error etc. But that still takes a hella lot of precision. Well done :)

[@SClerckx]

..........................................................................[ERROR: MIND BLOWN]..............................................................

[@eternalreminisce]

I gotta say man, I've seen a few youtubers making some sick crafts, but abuse certain physics in the game to do so, or clip parts together to make their stuff work, or modify parts a little...but I can tell that this is genuine. You're the true master, Hazard-ish.

[@jackdets7450]

Wow, great KSP empire state building replica! I think it's to scale, too- wait it's a rocket

[@nastypumpkincatgirl3732]

This is taking the phrase "MOAR BOOSTERS" and making fine art out of it. Job well done.

[@victorholmes5225]

“Good afternoon this is your captain speaking. We’d like you to sit back, relax, and pray to your personal god that this hunk of junk flies”

[@mudkickertv]

you sir... you definitely earn your views, amazing. btw tekto video is now one of my favourites, i cant wait for 1.0 to try gravity assists (too hyped to play 0.9)

[@SubitusNex]

Woah, the precision with SRBs.... just.. mindbogling. I like how you use separatrons for smaller controlled bursts to control your deltaV. Very cool rocket. (and so inefficient :P)

[@Xenro66]

I wonder how many attempts this took you. xD

[@Hazardish]

Haha, you probably don't want to know ;P

[@Xenro66]

Hazard-ish I'm guessing it's at least >30 attempts. Did you use quicksaves at all?

[@exylic]

Hazard-ish Now do this in a shuttle. Without using wasd. Or sepatrons.

[@nathanjames4242]

And without looking at your computer. and while skydiving.

[@wietsevandewalle5098]

Jordan O'C Sorry but I wonder that + how many precise calculation it took.

[@guilhermemach]

I simply dropped my jaw. Seriously. I can't do anything but subscribe. Keep up the quality KSP content! :)

[@KittyTheCat_]

i guess jeb died in the testing...

[@josephhenderson2538]

I don't even think Scott Manley could do that. I'm Impressed.

[@jddj5064]

Was that a powered landing on SRBs??? You cant do that to my heart. D=

[@botcheez6885]

then you see me strugle to get to the mun ;-;

[@sashabraus9422]

Bot Cheez much harder in career mode, but don't give up

[@eb3yr]

Alpha 1 mun on career is easy AF, i did it when i hadnt even unlocked manouver nodes or patched conics, yolo'd it.

[@dominikkodziejczak3041]

@@eb3yr same

[@CromemcoZ2]

You couldn't hear me, but I was applauding.

[@playerguy2]

Those landings must've been ungodly finicky! You continue to amaze me.

[@SkyboundGaming]

Some of those burns were so precise. I'm impressed. Well done!!

[@youpickedthewronghousefool7869]

Holy moly that was frckn flawless :D

[@Redeyez2424]

This is absolutely incredible you are something else man

[@mattjames092]

This is sensational. I literally watched the whole thing with my mouth open in amazement! Fantastic!

[@JohnnyCocas00]

Wow... I can't really say anything other than WOW. I haven't even reached Laythe and you did it only with SRBs and 0 parachutes! Jesus...

[@lucacapperucci8711]

JUST AN AMAZING FEAT and the music behind makes it so much better XD

[@hollowmonarch9802]

The gravity turn must have been a nightmare

[@sharpfang]

While I adore the skill and find the execution of maneuvers with SRBs to be totally impressive, my favorite part is around 0:20, when whole fountains of small SRBs spray all around.

[@Francois424]

Wow Hazard-ish, you're becoming quite good at KSP. Congratulations !

[@JoseMPerez-mo2gq]

This is even better than Matt's mission to mun with only SRBs

[@epiclaser2936]

Behold, the master of SRBs!

[@DormantHeart453]

How...the...Fuck. I'm only just able to get out to another planet and beginning to work on getting home too. You are a god. All hail the mighty Hazard-ish

[@Greater98er]

As a follow up perphaps a Joolian Grand tour just because. I do reckon you would need to do multiple launches and docking with srbs... Also you have earned a subscriber!

[@arbisy1604]

"We have officaily landed" *mature mexincan music starts playing

[@profoundthoughts]

This is NASA level mission planning.

[@TrebleSketch]

This is one of the most amazing KSP videos that I'd ever seen, great job :D

[@asmodesu]

SRB landing without parachutes? You sir, are a god among kerbals

[@rd461]

sadly,for me Laythe is really buggy,what i mean by that is that the kerbal sinks in to the ground all the way to his knees,then he kepps falling and when i try to sprint he just explodes. but nice vid btw i cant even imagine the amount of takes it took..its...flawless

[@ThomasKwa]

Interesting choice of symmetry on that transfer stage and lander.

[@michaelderflinger5002]

Hazard-ish Wow. I didnt expect the powered landing on laythe.

[@HolidayTheLeek]

and I THOUGHT getting to orbit with SRBS was good. I salute you sir!

[@LunarTomori]

Holy... Of course i can make it to laythe but not with SRBs... Im impressed. Subscribed and liked this video :)

[@johnrickard8512]

That has to be the most kerbal spacecraft I have ever seen :P.

[@genericfakename8197]

It's like an N-1 made out of dynamite, I love it.

[@Hazardish]

Haha, that's what I was going for! :)

[@genericfakename8197]

Hazard-ish Oh my god I got a reply from Hazard-ish! A deity among mortals has acknowledged my existence. Life is good.

[@InForTheLonghaul]

That's like Jeb's starship. :D

[@scaprod558]

... That Is A *GREAT* Achievement!

[@LGSyrus]

Awesome! Just awesome!

[@boringsoren]

This is the first time i see a solid booster burning in space

[@Shurnir]

he work is worthy of praise.

[@DualDesertEagle]

Can only imagine this needs to be planned EXTREMELY well...

[@ravenclawtom]

mad skills bro. good job!

[@willtheconqueror6030]

You certainly need a vacation so that you can 'Laythe back' from your hard work. I Duna see how good you are. I really Ike your skills!

[@tollyjones1344]

*Lands on laythe* *plants flag* "Ok I'm done here"

[@Chemi4001]

This video make me learn something _You can get into low kerbin orbit using just SRBs_ *Start strapping shitload of SRBs into rocket to make it fly to Minmus*

[@ik2254]

U know u can just take ur mun rocket design and fly to minmus and back and there will be even some fuel left?

[@Chemi4001]

Why not? In my KSP career gameplay, I went to Minmus before going to Mun and I personally find that landing on the Mun is harder than on Minmus.

[@keronplug14]

Holy shit this is the first time i haven't seen a kerbal land with a launch tower.

[@Harold_the_Foul]

This is insanity.... You are awesome hahaha

[@tankbuddy9666]

That.. was cool!

[@Pravisamour]

Dude seriously, are you a wizard?

[@sswelm]

This is pretty impressive

[@CaptRageALot]

This is amazing bro

[@namachef]

Holy shit, literally was listening to calypso this morning, man Jean-Michel Jarre is amazing. Try fourth rendez-vous for one of the videos music sometime.

[@dr.dibble1868]

This video shows you how badly the RT-10 Hammer underperforms in a vacuum.

[@crxstalline_]

2:09 it’s the Boost’o’copter

[@shrike6243]

The dV and maneuver math is strong with this one . . .

[@kaelandin]

Mmmm.... Tasty asparagus rockets...

[@RedsBoneStuff]

You should make a really light craft that lands on Tylo and returns; you can land using lithobraking (only use your engines to avoid smashing hard into the ground, but just barely touch the ground with some long structural parts to slow yourself down. Though you will still need some real engines for taking off.)

[@RedsBoneStuff]

Well, I just found out that in your "one tank to Tylo and back" you pretty much did just what I had in mind! XD

[@Hazardish]

Haha, great minds think alike :)

[@Yonkage]

The music makes it seem like you're just going on a little Tropical Vacation to Laythe, maybe for a long weekend or so.

[@Hazardish]

Yes! Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking about when I chose that music! Laythe has always seemed like a holiday moon with its beaches and lovely vistas. :)

[@asasnat342]

you are a genius at KSP

[@andrasfogarasi5014]

Needs more boosters.

[@Gergenhimer]

We all know the real accomplishment here is the ladder placement.

[@nemowicz]

wow...just...wow... you are genius

[@0shortland0]

My mind was literarily blown

[@c0gsthen3rd83]

AMAZING!!!!

[@falconsspark2991]

when i have to rethink my life because i have launched over 1,500,000 kebin dollars worth of rockets to try and land a mining craft on pol and failed miserably yet you just go to laythe with shit you get at the begining of the game

[@bucket1442]

Could do this with my eyes closed. i would be dreaming of doing it.

[@memolano100]

This is insane!

[@delta9827]

That’s one solid rocket

[@nicolascraftermc7725]

Liquid rockets and parachutes? Pfft, who needs that shit?

[@theohornsby51]

This makes the mum one look like a piece of cake

[@adventuresofvossman2549]

the best part was the hillbilly ladder configuration

[@Boomchacle]

Pure awesomeness.

[@michaelt3172]

Holy shit. Must've had to do a lot of math in order to pull this off. Nice job

[@tyorca5854]

I-...I---I'm I'm I'm speechless.

[@ln5321]

Oh yeah? Well one time I made it to orbit and didn't burn up on re-entry until I was down to 37 Km!

[@drake3764]

congrats man i can barely get to duna without running out of delta v working on getting to jool currently

[@jmstudios457]

so you built a skyscraper to visit some distant moon.... Elon approves

[@fess724]

insane, you are really insane

[@rafixxd208tutorialesdrones7]

Congratulations when it land on kerbin was 5 years of mission Matt lowne does it on 37 years!

[@xenowreborn]

I Don't believe it. Incredible

[@ballad9598]

Sees the rocket Me: Damn boi he thicc