When the Soviets designed a FULLY REUSABLE Shuttle! - Energia II KSP Recreation!

[@MattLowne]

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[@JeremiahWashington-bd2sr]

Yo Matt, in case you haven’t hear ship 28 and booster10 are gonna stack. Love the content keep up the good work. You should do a HLS mission with a actually fuel depot and starship tankers.

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

OH NO, YOU ACCEPTED A SPONSOR! YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY DOOMED.

[@Astro_Ptolemy]

18:46 “Thank you for flying Ryanair, over 90% of our flights arrived on time last year”

[@djw7141]

And almost 20% didn’t crash!

[@CamTheShort1]

“All flights landed with… “””unrivalled””” uncomfort

[@technomancer_066]

Another flawless landing for Lowne Aerospace

[@solomars]

Matthew : "a successful mission" Payload team in VAB : "bruh"

[@camjenkins]

The "missing payload" thing has happened to me several times. What happens, is the fairing doesn't seem to protect everything from heat... a good way to check if this happens, is the flight report.

[@space_is_real]

Moreover, it seems that the fairing does not protect docking ports at the moment. My workaround was to add a heat shield with a decoupler at the top while being inside the fairing to prevent this to happen. Then I just decouple the heat shield once in orbit.

[@MattLowne]

I don't think this is what happened here, at launch there's no monopropellant so I think it was user error, just really don't understand how it happened though lol

[@camjenkins]

@MattLowne oooohhhh gotcha... I'm still gonna complain about fairings not working though lol

[@intergalacticGM]

It could also be building the payload inside those multiple cargo bays. In my case I got part of a sat built on top of the bay attachment points. So in my case the sat never detached, in your case it can be that you took it away. A procedural bay like that one could really help.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

An appropriately kerbal landing! ("This is your captain speaking, please buckle your seat belts. We are about to begin the centrifuge portion of our flight.")

[@nicklasmartos928]

"just in case the inevitable happens" never heard that sentence before, but it´s one of my favourites now. Great slogan.

[@bell6437]

So I am currently making a larger version of this out of the XL parts. Frustrating, but a lot of fun! Thank you for the inspiration!

[@Low.quality.aviation]

I miss your KSP1 videos. Please do more ksp1 videos!

[@SebPlaySpaceflight]

The Energia 2 is one of my favorites because the folding wings are so cool.

[@Sucralose2]

10:55 like every craft does this when you rendevous right now, when they get loaded in they keep whatever torque was being applied when they got loaded but their SAS get's turned off so all my stations just keep spinning out of control as soon as I approach to dock but it's fine just ] [ over to it and turn its sas to prograde or whatever

[@senioravocado1864]

I personally prefer the Energia over the Shuttle, at least on paper, so sad we didn't get to see her fly

[@MattLowne]

Buran Energia very much did fly though. Only once, but it did fly :)

[@senioravocado1864]

@@MattLowne oh damn, I forgot about that

[@kamipollna225]

There was also the polyus orbital platform launched on energia

[@senioravocado1864]

@@kamipollna225 ah that I remember

[@Rybakov22]

@@MattLowne Autopilot even accounted for weather when landing. Shame it was discontinued after that.

[@valecasini]

Oh gosh... You recreated Uragan! (Energiya 2) 😍🔥 I tried to recreate it into Stock KSP1 full scale but it was a bit laggy after trying to make the boosters reusable tahnks to my potato laptop 😅 very nice to see it recareated in KSP2! It surely was so much easier to make the wings similar to the concept But already from the thumbnail I can see that you took some freedom of making it with the crew on the nose cone (I don't remember it like that) 😅

[@The_Canadian_Engineer]

Im so happy that he put the old ksp music! I really miss it! They should definitely bring it back.

[@ADonutMan]

7:32 Yes, please!

[@pitachu_s]

12:09 Happened to me multiple time with ksp2's cargo domes, seems like you have to assemble your cargo bay in a very specific order in order to make it aerodynamic. Had to relaunch a mission 7 times because of this exact bug. My space station module kept blowing up/detaching during ascent and had to switch to regular fearings to make it to orbit.

[@JoeFrogz]

Matt: is it morning?? Where’s the sun. Clock at the bottom of the screen: some acknowledge would be nice!?

[@BrannonAerospace]

It has been far too long since you did a replica. Thanks!

[@MattLowne]

It has been 2 weeks since my last replica (technically, if you count the USS Enterprise as a replica lol)

[@Low.quality.aviation]

@@MattLowneexactly. About a week and a half too long lol

[@eekee6034]

I always wondered what the Shuttle would have been like with boosters above the wings. It flies well and, after detachment, looks magnificent!

[@ArgzeroYT]

I wish KSP2 had triggers tied to a timer component that can be linked to other timers. Would make for cool recovery. Also sensor-tied triggers.

[@drake52]

I think that ksp1 had something similar in the breaking ground expansion but yeah it would be nice if we also had those things in ksp2.

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

Man when we send anything to space, it either fucks up immediately or does twenty times more then expected of what its goal was, ingenuity, multiple rovers, some shuttles, some satellites, but other times it fails so badly that it feels absurd that it’s even possible to do so poorly

[@sirmonkey1985]

space is hard.. one small issue or even a single character in the wrong spot in a line of code can pretty much render something useless. you can also see a huge correlation of issues tied around things being rushed and/or budgets being cut instead of letting people do their jobs to make sure things are done right.

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

@@sirmonkey1985 hopefully as we figure out AI we can use it to skim through code very quickly, that’d probably help even if only a little. The engineering mistakes are massive too

[@nitroflap]

As a fan of soviet rockets and Energia - very cool video!

[@Jankeverything]

Good job Matt 😊

[@allenbosire8890]

Love this! Would love to see more on a series dedicated to some of the wild prototype ideas. Especially some of those in the Mustard videos if you have seen those 😄

[@TimbavatiLion]

The payload disappearing happened to me a LOT when i tried to do the "Land a 200 ton vehicle on Minmus" mission. I decided to fly a fat truck plus a refuieling station to Minmus, but the Truck, that was connected with a docking port inside the Pyload Bay, kept teleporting itself to the bottom of the VAB and into dozens of singular pieces that were not held together by a root part and not part of the launch assembly. So if there's any chance to find your space station module, it was probably left behind in the VAB, some Kerbal forgot the payload integration part 😂

[@airiannawilliams3181]

Recent update fixed the lights. Now you can put some lights on your ships and still see them on the dark areas.

[@JoeJoeBinks-gf9vc]

i was thinking you could do a soviet style mission because the u dunk it science module looks like a soviet pod

[@ABTisforABEEGTREE]

I always loved the Energia, so sad I can't land aircraft in this game

[@8NIWI11]

Рано чи пізно ти зможеш це зробити просто більше тренувань 😊😊😊

[@FlyRetroGamer]

I still miss how the old kerbals looked, and it's not just nostalgia.

[@jayunlee9100]

2:19 nice video as always matt! however I just wanted to point out that the energia boosters having four nozzles really doesn't have much to do with the soyuz rocket. The energia booster's RD-170 engines were a super high performance kerolx staged combustion engine whereas the RD-107/108 engines on the soyuz rockets are a rather low teach basic open cycle engine. The RD-170 was the pinnacle of soviet engineering whereas the RD-107/108 was literally the engine that started the soviet space program. In fact the RD-170 is so high performance that the RD-180 on Atlas-V american rocket 1st stage is basically the RD-170 cut in half. Thus the two nozzles. So...yeah, besides the fact that they are soviet kerolx engines with four nozzles, that is where the similarities pretty much end.

[@BillKermanKSP]

Great, maybe the Soviet engineers should have had a look inside the payload bay before launch

[@birdess-o5x]

i love how every day we come up with new ideas to expand our space exploration.

[@aarondsouza1842]

MATT we need a video on UR series in ksp2

[@ryansgametime2146]

Watching this vid on KZbin with my iPad and I still can clearly see it even when it’s dark

[@sfslead]

It's a good day when my boy Matt uploads a video

[@theactualwhea]

This could be an effective way to transport entire space stations. You fly up the ship, dock it with the station, then you get the COM all evened out. Refuel the ship and then transport it whereever. Then you can reuse the ship since its basically an SSTO

[@notmyname4790]

We need a video where you repair/rescue SLIM lander

[@vincentklingenberg7176]

I have been that space you were in the start of the video. I also saw the moon stone they have

[@kiczen_]

I would love more ksp 2 tutorial series, maybe it would be 2 weeks in a row and then another format

[@Moerdock]

i second this big time!

[@MattLowne]

I'm thinking of doing tutorial uploads on alternate weeks - last Saturday was my "going deep space" tutorial :)

[@tikishark1]

I really hate to complain because you’re such a kind person, but I’m super bummed about the frequency of the tutorials. They started out so strong and it was the first time I’ve actually finished missions. Last week’s tutorial fizzled out with little content, and then nothing again this Saturday. I know you have other interests on this channel, but it’s difficult to learn something when it’s so infrequently offered. It just doesn’t seem like your hearts in it.

[@paulsidhuUK]

I enjoyed that the mission didn't go completely to plan. Makes me feel better about my missions ;)

[@carnaxilos]

Funny cos I was in Speyer and checked out the buran today!

[@Felimations]

Can you make Life in lathe in ksp 2 It would be very interesting with the New science update

[@pelicannot.]

wait until colonies update

[@8NIWI11]

​@@pelicannot.😂😂😂😂 yeah

[@FurbieSlayer.]

Beautiful rocket

[@noahglimcher5445]

I feel that the ad for ground news just added insult to injury. Ingenuity was a beautiful helicopter that really made my dreams come true and being told there would be a moment of silence for it and then not only not getting one but instead getting an ad for a private media outlet was really terrible. You do cool stuff man, but that was not cool man.

[@FiveHundredThirtyOne]

11:06 damn it jeb i told you to activate SAS

[@Parascuba]

did you forget you have parachute? you could use it to drag slow down then cut off before touch down

[@Rexini_Kobalt]

docking with russian station: "i dont know why its spinning out of control like this" why do i have deja vu 😂😂

[@blackdog6969]

11:10 someone left Hans Zimmer playing on the station

[@TheGuyWhoComments]

Thanks for covering this pretty much unknown craft

[@OvertakeGT]

Explore kerbin biomes / habitats for your next missions

[@ratmemer]

i like your car! it looks very nice

[@mytubechenzy]

great vid again! I thunk we all need a Mun Motel and Karaoke Bar mini series !:p

[@Rankoldbeast_UK]

Was the crash warning message during launch not the station component smashing up inside the cargo bay?

[@ReaperCheaper]

The Ussr really did go kerbal.

[@TobiasFischerTF]

so, for the boostes you need an airfield with 4 landing strips? as far as i have seen planes landing they usually clear the runway before the next one comes in :D

[@rulerof4breads]

Please revisit this in KSP 1.

[@ColdWindPhoenix84]

Energia 2 was very ahead of its time...

[@danielmarchetti6052]

Hey matt wanna give you a tip for the boster why you dont put at all of themca parcahute so wene they will land smothle

[@silmarian]

I’m on strike because the latest patch ate my save (it won’t load) but enjoying watching this.

[@animeforever5069]

The kerbalnot be like: what the entry in kerbal atmosphere in 3am 😂😂16:47

[@Picaxe45]

when the game will have multiplayer, maybe in this context it will be possible to make rockets reusable with other player safely land all boosters etc

[@JackalRacingNetwork]

6:05 - bro you had the space station module built and ready to go.. uhm, but somehow you seperated it along with jeb, and you killed him, look at the top right, jeb must've been placed in the station docking part of the energia 2

[@Rat-nl1xe]

I always thought they would restart this program to build there own station

[@stephenhergest3653]

You sure you can't sent the Blunderbirds to rescue an Ingenuity-type copter from Duna? Step 1, send an Ingenuity-type helicopter to Duna...

[@chicasdasfggh]

I wonder when we get multiplayer if we'll finally be able to do staged reuseable missions with friends, or if maybe they have some other plans to make this possible?

[@JosVerbeek]

If I turn my screen to the brightest setting the video looks very overexposed in Kerbin daylight but I can see the craft in pretty good detail on the dark side of the planet. With brightness on a setting that does not burn my retina everything looks normal. Not sure if it is KZbin messing with your footage or people not having their screen on a proper brightness setting that causes the video to look dark. Anyway, great landing, I rate it 13/10.

[@martinvranovsky7085]

Watching the footage made me realize how much I miss KSP 1's music. There needs to be a mod.

[@maryholt319]

Can you restart blunder birds

[@fredrickbambino]

They should add an option to brighten up the dark areas.

[@Kerbool-jq9oj]

How did you make the windows on the thumbnail for the starship cargo bay?

[@hellabisys]

An excellent solution to the darkness of the side of the planet that is dark: lights!

[@coletrainatec]

I didn't know that a mars helicopter had a media bias.

[@ricardofernandez2932]

Hi Matt. I’m trying to build a Ssto to orbit but am struggling to calculate how much fuel to put in so that the COM and COL are in the correct spots for re entry. What do you do to know how much fuel will be in the ssto at re entry so it doesn’t spin?

[@EritoKaio]

Oh so thats what the junk was in the massive recycling containers, oops. -KSC Staff

[@uCruz_]

Imagine if they were to add programmed events to the launch, it could be possible to program a booster to land itself.

[@wantboost]

Godspeed to the tiny little martian drone that could

[@ozy4281]

was the space station put up in a different video or was it just a prop for the episode?

[@elizabethconcepcion4958]

Happy new year 🎇🎊🎉

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Will you do a mission relating to Whirligig World?

[@eaxgaming7141]

Amazing editing

[@brandonfigueroa7399]

please do the jupiter iii in ksp2

[@angelmarinarenas5626]

I miss your SSTO's, why don't you try to do one in ksp2?

[@oghype8630]

Why did you just add parachutes to them? Wouldn’t that let them land safe and thought free? Or would that add to much weight.

[@LunarGaming17]

How long does it take you to build that

[@somedude4805]

*skrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* Matt, drifting a space plane to a stop.

[@joshuatheis8298]

you were in my hometown and i missed it :(

[@arfazero1]

new update for ksp2 called KSP2: Lack Of update

[@Sucralose2]

wondering when Matt will finally just put parachutes on his booster stages so they can get recovered

[@weazalnews2442]

Why did you only use 1/3 fuel on side boosters at first launch @MattLowne

[@MistyTires_YT]

otherwise you have too mutch deltaV

[@aldine_KSP]

Absolutely cursed grid fins

[@Kermit666-kx8ss]

Matt I don’t think you ever did a Ike mission

[@cooperfoster2613]

Can’t wait Matt. Love your videos!

[@Arrowhead40]

Maybe you could try to create the starship from Avatar

[@JoeFrogz]

MOAR LIGHTS

[@pricelessppp]

It's sad reusable rockets won't matter in ksp2.

[@8NIWI11]

Why?

[@unownyoutuber9049]

@@8NIWI11 Funds no longer exist

[@werewolfwill7126]

Please give rp1 a try it's amazing

[@robertheinrich2994]

music suggestion: russkaja, energia. austrian band, that made a song about the rocket (but the first version).

[@greekrevoltontheway]

Bro am I the only one who thought that the batteries you put in the rocker were C4's? 💀

[@ForzaCraft361]

Hi Matt lowne I love your videos!!!

[@ForzaCraft361]

Can you make more sstos also I love those videos!

[@TheDrakenZ]

13:25 --- Rated R