KSP: Capturing a Magic Asteroid!

[@MattLowne]

Enjoy! Any suggestions for things you'd like to see in the space station let me know! Send me pics of modules you designed as well if you want on twitter (@Matt_Lowne)

[@mattwolfeius]

Make a video with a craft reaching Mach 5 Without heat shields and radiators! (i did this twice) there is a mod to switch the navball speed indicator from m/s to mach if you intend to do this, good luck!

[@MrJamesbondo07]

what if you make a sort of web of asteroids in the station

[@connorking8503]

MatthewTheFurry, Kerbal engineer has a Mach readout.

[@Emmet-sd8og]

matt could you make like a huge station in a ring around gilly or a small moon xD

[@User-di2od]

Ty for the new video.

[@haakonht]

Saved two kerbals, created an extinction level event. ...All in a day's work.

[@livovil]

Or u could just thanos them mfs

[@atc423]

But the asteroid was to small

[@jerrmy666]

The asteroid was only going 130m/s when it impacted. That is not an extinction level event. What makes an asteroid dangerous is hitting the earth with inter planetary speeds.

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Also, it was about as tall as a tree.

[@lordfelidae4505]

Erebus basically, we don’t want a de-orbiting asteroid belt chunk to decide we got a pretty planet and want to give it a lil kiss.

[@TheWarrior2387]

*Ship*: This is the asteroid capturer to base, we're pulling this thing in to LKO. Say, 350 meters sound good? *Base*: 350k? *Ship*: We're Kerbals. 350 meters.

[@droid88-b56]

Heh

[@annoyinglyfast5972]

No, that's not Kerbal yet, 70 meters is Kerbal

[@samstoddard4191]

still not it must trim trees

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

with a pe of 70.000m and a simulair ap

[@annoyinglyfast5972]

No the pe is 5.0000m

[@nathanwhitfield7834]

When he was explaining the difficulty of the mission I thought back to when I tried getting to Duna by set target and go full throttle to the target

[@DaMonstahh]

I thought i was the only one

[@Erowens98]

If you had infinite fuel, i wonder how long it would take to end up at duna that way

[@bttrickk787]

I tried the same thing when flying to the mun

[@ecyt2447]

I like your spirit

[@michaelkaminski1166]

Just keep adding boosters. You’ll get there eventually. I think…

[@ThatBoiOnLaythe]

Jeb will have a lot of interesting stories to tell his grandchildren. About emergencies, near-death encounters and even strandings, for example, *the one time he used an asteroid as both a heatshield AND a parachute.*

[@El_Negro2003]

Jebediah

[@madjedi2235]

Now that's how you land a freaking spacecraft

[@schnoig_]

madjedi22 one year for someone to reply to this.

[@f.b.iisnotgay6428]

Oof

[@Nuggeinsky4321]

@Silas Langwadt Thrysøe you didn't see shiz

[@priestgaminghd3956]

4 years!

[@bruhmomentum5064]

"Top left is a random video . . ." Good job KZbin randomizer algorithm, it's the same exact video that I just watched.

[@TtEL]

I've had been there too a long time ago actually, Green Harvest showed up

[@roylandmcsausage7460]

Do not taunt the Magic boulder.

[@rogerphelps9939]

MMMMMM I agree

[@henrijayy]

For it has The Kraken's support. The Kraken is the embodiement of pure luck and chaos.

[@Flava-flave]

I SHALL GIVE YOUUUUUUU, 201 LIKES 😆😆

[@guy2316]

Nasa: there's an asteroid heading to earth what do we do Nasa worker: I know a guy Matt lownes phone rings

[@joespeed1952]

Matt. You seriously need more attention. 70K is not enough. You have way more technological attention and better reasoning than I ever would playing KSP. I'd never be able to do what you do in a week and yet still have the energy to capture not one, but TWO asteroids! This video is amazing!

[@almondpotato9483]

Capture the Mun and bring it closer to Kerbin.

[@lamoona4269]

Is that possible is ksp?

[@gergelyfarkas1953]

@@lamoona4269 no

[@jmstudios457]

Gilly!

[@lordfelidae4505]

I want to see a mod that lets you fuck with planetary orbits now. That would be fucking amazing.

[@FerroFrog]

@@lordfelidae4505 Indeed

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

Scott Manley: don’t mess with the magic boulder Matt Lowne: *MESSES WITH THE MAGIC ASTEROID*

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

make these two orbit together, then connect them with a bridge (made of crew cabins). then make it a space station!!!

[@hh-ck6ko]

Like a giant space dumbbell

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

would be awesome

[@TrayTerra]

Welp, I know what I’m doing after work now.

[@lauragodridge8966]

HECK YES

[@FourSkinGym]

I propose a challenge to matt. objective is to go to another planet with oceans and make a floating base in the planet using inflatable heat shields as buoyancy.

[@MattLowne]

Tried it but it's super ugly :/

[@FourSkinGym]

Matt Lowne ino what you mean. I tried once but messed up the landing so it fell over and couldnt get it back up but I think I'm goanna try it again soon.

[@henrijayy]

oof

[@Chocice75]

But everything floats in KSP...

[@zacharyhandy9606]

No

[@annieoplis7458]

Love your videos.They inspired me to go back to KSP.Thanks Matt.

[@electrontubeold9640]

Same

[@kruleworld]

10:46 "anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" - Einstein.

[@poncie4444]

True

[@mrbork7218]

Space rock heat shield... Clever.

[@ghostjaeger4326]

It has the aerodynamic properties of a barn (An extremely large barn lol)

[@MrAndybell10]

10/10 successful landing

[@TexasRoast]

I love that little plane icon! I just imagined what it would be like if you actually were on an airplane, fell asleep, and then woke up and saw you were in space and there was a magic green asteroid out your window! XD

[@MarcusHouse]

Maaatte... That is a nice ship! Looks like it would be pretty stable. Pitty the NERV's don't vector at all. Always makes pushing the damn asteroids more frustrating than it should. Love the green magic asteroid. The one I found was pink a few months back.

[@ok-wl1mn]

Marcus House First liker

[@mesoth5848]

That's why you spam reaction wheels...

[@prograde_x]

i wonder what happened to the pink one............. BTW you guys should have different asteroid colours with the theme color of each channels

[@kael8567]

i think it is actually called "The Magic Boulder" or was that the easter egg that was floating around Ike?

[@nickarry]

yeah! i made a class e ship with 6 stupidly large reaction wheels for ultimate torque. works well considering.

[@HJGBAMA]

He protec He attac But most importantly He brings asteroids bacc

[@zuspicious4968]

Haha, loved 'forgot about dre' in the first 5 minutes or so.

[@lacorbeau]

i thought i was hearing things til infound this comment xD i was tripped out at hearing that song on this channel

[@zuspicious4968]

@@lacorbeau yeah me too, really caught me off guard for a hot minute lol

[@Bassoonify]

I love the map layover with the transparency over watching your craft launch. Nice touch!

[@HANSE658]

Matt you daring devil, you are pretty good at this game :-)

[@axelord4ever]

Space rocks are fun to play with. Last time I tried a challenge, it was to put a rock on top of the VAB without the use of engines (nothing that could count as direct dV inside the atmosphere). Thanks to the strange set of rules, I either had to eyeball it perfectly with parachute all the way from orbit or find another way. What I did instead was put the rock down a few kilometers out (aim was wack but decided not to revert), tow it home with a giant rover, and then raise it to the top of the VAB using a KAS-infused crane system.

[@lanerasnake6265]

Oh my gosh... I was stalking his patron and I went through the rewards and he has a 1,000,000 a month BFF status... just wow, but seriously, I love matt

[@zawseh5969]

LanellaGames 1 000 000 what ?

[@lordfelidae4505]

Zawseh $

[@brandonR.E]

Love this guy... man spitting bars while ascending

[@thedog1636]

bro this was 5 years ago the atmopheric drag from the orbit probably deorbited the station Rip old magic asteroid

[@hypercell1016]

Yo need to put the asteroid in a polar orbit of Ike! Thumbs up if you get why.

[@mesoth5848]

_Do not taunt the Magic Boulder._

[@hypercell1016]

Or Scott Manley will put you on an escape trajectory of the Sun using only a Thud engine.

[@spinn4ntier487]

hypercell101 you only need about 1000 m/s^2

[@hypercell1016]

Pfft, piece of cake for Scott. He could do ANYTHING in KSP.

[@tylosenpai6920]

Scott need mechjeb to land in mountains to do dockless eve and back, but matt can get to eve without ui (or is it) and dont care about the height of terrain he landed on, even sea level

[@bavhroulsnow2078]

Catching and stabilizing asteroids, and the subsequent stations attached to them, end up making handy interplanetary gas stations.

[@toothpickprovider2614]

"I never make mistakes" (Me, who forgets to pack the ground science): ಠ︵ಠ

[@traegoins6903]

Me who gets all the way to duna before realizeing that jebadiah cant repack chutes "..."

[@irishroyalty9277]

Yes! I love these kinds of videos! I really like seeing talented KSP players doing challenging things because they can. You, sir, are a true gift to this world. Keep doing awesome stuff, I'll watch it. PS: I really like the commentary videos over the white text videos, I'd love to see more of those from you. The sound of your voice makes this much more enjoyable :) #NotCreepy #JustStatingTheFacts

[@yshouldicar3]

I haven't been subbed to you for long. (only started watching your vids about a week ago) but I'm looking forward to your next video.

[@yshouldicar3]

Aww thanks for the ❤ Matt!

[@zawseh5969]

yshouldicar3 #matt is trolling

[@pickleGenerator]

You can see the relative inclination with the target by using the "rendezvous" tab in the Kerbal Engineer, it is very useful.

[@thetaai8262]

That's no asteroid! That's a kraken egg!

[@jmstudios457]

no wait OH SHIT

[@davidhunter6706]

Who are you in the wise way of science

[@Exevium]

Cool vid! 2 things tho: I think the reason why 1 claw stayed attached after the 'landing' is because once a claw has attached, it all becomes one ship and the other claws no longer collide with the asteroid. And, it would've been cool to have little 'parachute bots', little drone cores with mono-propellant, RCS thrusters, a claw on one end and a parachute on the other. Would've made for pretty cool cargo, and a softer landing.

[@RustyRunner]

i wouldn't mind you going normal speed as you enter kerbins atmosphere with intense music and keeping us at the edge of our chairs wondering if kerbins end up surviving xD its alll exciting

[@mpendulojwara]

"The kraken smiled upon us" 🤣 awesome video, still very good even years later 👍

[@improbable_scout]

Pretty impressive considering it's all stock parts! There's me, can't get into orbit sometimes...

[@1000-THR]

SOMETIMES i go boom but i click abort and survive

[@anonnymouse3058]

Almost one million. Wish you best of luck Matt.

[@l00narcy]

When we think it's the magic boulder :(

[@cloverdove]

A few versions ago, Magic Boulders spawn in as random rare asteroids. They come in a variety of colours, But you need to find 'em. I remember when i was with The Engadine, and i was pushing random rocks around with Whack-A-Kerbal when i found a special rock. A magic one.

[@eekee6034]

I once put a comet in Kerbin orbit. It looks awesome! Weird, sometimes scary, but awesome! :D I forget what the orbit height is, but its period is 4 or 5 hours; slow enough to take good photos, fast enough to keep things fresh. It's in a polar orbit for much the same reasons. I radically underestimated the length of the tail, so it streams all the way past Kerbin and out of its SOI. (At certain times of the year, I suppose it'll stream through Kerbin. That'll look interesting. It technically goes through the atmosphere as it is.) Anyway, I used a cheat; KAL overclocking, but I've launched a proper ship to capture another comet in my main save. Or rather, I launched 2 ships because I forgot the thermal systems the first time -- it'll mine the comet. One thing I made sure to do is make a dummy maneuver node, enter the intercept velocity into the numeric field for prograde/retrograde, and note down how long the burn will take. With the first ship, I somehow managed to intuitively estimate a good transfer window. There's a skill I didn't know I had! lol Unfortunately, the second ship will take 8 years to rendevouz, but perhaps I'll launch another when I think there might be another good transfer window. The comet's inclination doesn't help. Edit: I forgot how EPIC the ending of this video is! :D I last watched it back in the summer when I wasn't signed in to KZbin. One to save, I think. In case you're wondering, the above description is meant as a suggestion, even a bit of a rough guide. :)

[@mellowcello1826]

Hi Matt! You are the best KSP KZbinr ever!!!

[@mrpielover615]

I think that title actually belongs to Scott Manley, but you do you.

[@mellowcello1826]

It is a hard decision between the two

[@sinterso2.036]

What about Stratzenblitz?

[@channdler]

I love how you couldn't survive reentry normally so you just took an asteroid making it a meteor and using that as a shield. Absolutly great video keep it up!

[@HappyBacon777ttv]

Me: Struggling to make a spacecraft that can go to the mun and back. This Mad Lad: Captures an asteroid, puts it into kerbin orbit, land the craft back at kerbin by using another asteroid as a makeshift heatshield and landing surface. wtf lol

[@KSPAtlas]

I have a mun and back capable rocket but during reeentry the science junior goes boom

[@astronomybrainiac]

Matt, next challenge: build a comet. Dock multiple large asteroids together and set in in a highly elliptical orbit around Kerbol (periapsis within Eve/Moho orbit, apoapsis beyond Eeloo). Bonus challenge: send a separate vessel to go rendezvous with your new comet.

[@captainzac24]

Could you land an asteroid at the KSC plz

[@QUADEeee]

Christian Humer More like crash the asteroid into the VAB! :D

[@TheAechBomb]

@@QUADEeee what happens if you park it in the rubble and repair the VAB? Kraken attack?

[@Numbr1RatedSalesman1997]

16:40 "The Kraken smiled upon us today, for we survived and no Kerbals died that day." - Matt Lowne, the poet

[@redacted8983]

I bet that green "magic" asteroid is Tiberium

[@thimothey66]

Hehe

[@leandergihr9598]

Welcome back commander.

[@AlifNurfakhri]

"I never ever made any mistake" is a very bold statement. I trust you nonetheless

[@lennonmclean]

Perfectly executed lithobraking maneuver 👏

[@SamFarley098]

Forgot about Dre!

[@elementalsigil]

Great video. I couldn't believe they survived. Games like this always tease our creativity and make humans push them to the limits.

[@t.o.r7725]

The kerbals have been trapped in space for 1 month and 22 days.

[@lilylyons8885]

This channel is perfect for new people to KSP.

[@hevgamer6087]

make a floating base on EVE

[@elementalsheep2672]

pEW pEW What about those submarines that people launch to Eve? They seem to float...

[@WombleProductions]

Matt also made a floating base in Laythe.

[@bobbrown8455]

Matt: I never ever make mistakes Me: I knew it Matt's not a human

[@rafaelgutierrez7845]

Magical!

[@MrKokuen]

I captured a comet into LKO when one came close enough to Kerbin. Biggest mistake ever, since it fogged up everything nearby, and since comets are rare I didn't want to take the easy way out and simply drop it down to Kerbin so I went through the effort of sending it to orbit the Sun instead. That was expensive, considering I was playing in career mode.

[@ClemensAlive]

"Gravity" could learn from that video...take that Sandra Bullock!

[@renzo00]

happy birthday my dude

[@ClemensAlive]

@@renzo00thank you :) but how do you know?

[@bobbyflen248]

Sandra Bullock?

[@anix3665]

Matt: i dont make mistakes! Also matt: Forgets to quicksave

[@KyleLi]

Doesnt NASA want to start work on navigating an asteroid into earth orbit by 2021?

[@Rex2p0_]

Free fuel?

[@microwave2420]

No

[@microwave2420]

By 2021 they are going to mars

[@ausore9832]

MaxTheGamerDuck Nope, 2030's

[@someedgysnipermain5318]

Bringing an asteroid into orbit? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

[@chrismickle918]

The chances of a Magic Boulder spawning is 5%, and the odds of you getting a magic boulder are 1:20. I think that means that, for every magic boulder, there are 20 regular asteroids.

[@nitromeano]

Oh my the magic boulder, why did it get removed?

[@cloverdove]

It didn't. They now are random rare space rocks.

[@nitromeano]

If only it still had the magical kraken properties like when it did arround Ike

[@Lank912]

Matt, you mentioned that you were not going to use the magic boulder as an orbital mining platform. That sounds like an amazing thing for you to try! Use that ship to capture a normal one and build a refinery on it!

[@lexus14blacklist]

Y’all know me, still the same OG.

[@HermanVonPetri]

When Matt lithobrakes he doesn't just hit the rock, the hits the rock with another rock! This rocks \m/

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

Herman Von Petri punpunpun

[@twami86]

How's no one taking about the beat at the start!?

[@eightyeight3694]

Mac Lethal (edit: I was thinking of a different video)

[@a_bugs_life2622]

Tarmius guess they forgot about Dre

[@ProPandaGamersTM]

Good, so its not just me that heard it

[@forbiddenkalamari]

It's Eminem - forgot about dre

[@livid7594]

A_bugs_life ehhh

[@cones914]

Another great way to find captured asteroids is to slap this asteroid capture vessel on Matt's dres rocket. Dres has a natural asteroid belt so it makes asteroid searching much easier(at the cost of a great distance from kerbin).

[@________6295]

when are you going to visit us martians again?

[@davidcoyne6514]

And I thought doing a manned landing on Duna was cool, back to the drawing board i guess. P.S you are the best ksp KZbinr, keep up the great work

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

matt, can i have your e-mail by any chance? i have some craft files i would like to see their full potential from, and some of them are easy/fun to fly👍

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

and I'm sure I'm not the only one, and if it gets popular, could you please make a "subscribers designs" series like mark thrimm does?

[@paintedeevee4581]

How you finally landed on kerbin, amazing.

[@angusspencer1485]

Who ever has disliked has reserved their place in hell.

[@goodboy3520]

b...but he put the magic boulder in an orbit :(

[@jebkerman4476]

Good luck jebedah and bill have a safe flight

[@Zodiac9944]

Every now and again it sounds like he's spitting bars for a second with that background music😆

[@harrysnell8971]

I got my first asteroid 1st time around and was SO happy. I did make sure I picked a tiny one so it wouldn't be too hard to handle though ;)

[@vwr0527]

"We don't have a parachute! How will we land safely?" "Not to worry, we'll just use this massive boulder as our parachute and/or airbag!"

[@ajr993]

The most efficient way to return from a bad angle like you did would be to use a gravity assist from the mun, which would also reduce your periapsis, and you wouldn't need even close to as much fuel.

[@spacecadetengineers2469]

Matt: I added 4 claws Me: Why? Matt: BECAUSE IT LOOKS COOL!!!

[@DanteofSparda5376]

Magic asteroid, mystical comet, extraordinary boulder.

[@mrfashionguy1]

This entire video sounds like a rap with that forgot about dre background tune.

[@theredscourge]

Aerobraking with asteroids is a massive fuel saver! Grab it from as far out as you can, try to match the plane to 0 degrees with Kerbin, drop it down to Kerbin periapsis of 40km or so and let the atmosphere chop down the apoapsis for you. Then once it's low, you just need to wait around until apoapsis and then lift the periapsis back out to above 70km and you're good to go.

[@red_five3325]

Hey, Matt. Here's a challenge for you: capture a large asteroid, put it in orbit around Kerbin, and start building an permanent outpost on that asteroid.

[@lampexxl8599]

WOW, you can do so many things in KSP. Thats awesome. :D Greetings from Germany. :)

[@SpacefarerIndustries]

DO NOT TAUNT THE MAGIC BOULDER

[@huntergale7171]

Love the commentary style!

[@mwbgaming28]

I like your taste in music For those who don't know, the song at the beginning is necro, murder ya life

[@busterboy241]

Probably the most epic re entry ever

[@JustThomas1]

I was messing with your expedition eve videos and noticed that you used historical audio for some of the kerbal's voices. Pretty great detail.

[@eyallev]

kerbals: WE DON'T HAVE HEAT SHIELD boss: we can use an asteroid for that kerbals: WE DON'T HAVE PARACHUTES TO CUSHINE THE LANDING!!! boss: err ... we ... can use an asteroid for that!

[@endryus4269]

Well I made horizon with a crew in base no dlc game It was for an asteroid landing It was soooo faraway that I couldn’t get solar power (I put 1 rtg on it) It took 27 years for it to go next to the sun

[@crimsonscriticalcorner9048]

Matt: captures an asteroid Me: can't get an orbit right

[@Nothy]

"I never ever make mistakes, ever." don't give yourself too big of a pat on the back now, matt. ily tho

[@miguelcp236]

its irony

[@methyod]

using mechjeb's maneuver node editor to plan and execute perfectly optimal burns>fly by wire>using mechjeb's maneuver node planner

[@digital0185]

9:16 those kerbals are really happy with that asteroid

[@phillip1054]

LOL, i'm i the only one on here whos looking at all those lines, rings and god knows what else and thinking "Jeez this looks seriously confusing". XD no matter how many of these kerban space mission vids i watch it still looks as confusing as hell to me. Don't get me wrong when i can finally afford to get this thing (probably take me two years birthday and christmas money to save up for it) cause it does look like fun but i know i'm probably going to be sat here for at least ...... ummm about a month just trying to figure this thing out without blowing up ROFL. Anyways great vid as always, looking forward to more man.

[@gsquared8730]

Hey Matt,I just finished my project;LOTUS Array;Leveled Orbital Telecommunications Uber Satellite Array which is basically a relay setup that is completely reusable (apart from the actual rocket(only the satellites are reusable))sooo…yeah nice project idea if u want (just remember credit)anyway love your vids!!!😊😊😊

[@quoniam426]

I managed my first asteroid interception yesterday but as I was low on funds I didn't take any nuke engines on my ship, only a good old Rhino. Problem is the 2200m/s Delta-V provisioned on the ship became 22m/s with the added 3500 tons of the asteroid. I know the TWR would lower but I didn't think it would lower this much. I had lots of monoprop for RCS maneuvers and it added another 23m/s, but still lacking 75m/s to capture it. To be fair, the ship was pretty small and was only weighting about 17 tons, so I guess the relative weight difference also is to be counted. A heavy ship with NERVs will lose less TWR because the NERV TWR is low already and the relative weight difference of a Nuke ship with lots of fuel, weighting about 250 t is much less. (about 1/15th instead of 1/200th... I have designed a second ship but with its launch system, it costs about 900 k creds... Approx 4.5 times more costly than my previous one. There is another asteroid that will be nearly captured by Kerbin some 200 days afterwards, I could wait for that one to have less Delta-V requirement to capture it. The idea is that once the asteroid is captured inside Kerbin's SOI, you can send other ships to make little changes over time if you're low on funds or wait till you have enough for a big ship. But when the asteroid is just zooming past you, you get only one chance to catch it.

[@zj6074]

4 klaws .... and that didn't cause metric tons of Kraken ... KSP physics really have improved since the last time I touched the spacerocks. And I'm not sure that little of the spacecraft remaining constitutes a "good landing".