Mission to the CENTER OF THE MUN! (KSP 2 For Science Update) - Aircraft Only: Ep 2

We continue our playthrough of the KSP2 For Science Update using ONLY AIRCRAFT. And eventually I unlock enough parts out of the new tech tree to make some more serious spaceplanes and proceed to ACCIDENTALLY make an SSTO, then use it to send a probe to the Mun's Core...yeah, things got crazy pretty fast in this one!
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Music in order of appearance:
steviasphere.bandcamp.com
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Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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"The Descent" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Outro song : nyoko.bandcamp.com/track/mars...

[@smooneychad]

Thanks again for all the support for this series so far! It's been so much fun to make, so it's truly amazing to see so many people wanting more! :D *So to keep up the science grind I'm gonna try putting out one new episode every week on Saturday/Sunday!* Edit: Ep 3 is finally out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXqqooiGotCff8k

[@Bagthebag]

Lets go i love this series you are a truly underated chanel

[@TheTrueZenix]

The mun hole is crazy it absolutely dwarfs the mohole.

[@smooneychad]

They better make it a feature!

[@xymaryai8283]

​@@smooneychadmaybe if theres some way to "activate" the arch, it will open up and at a specific time, it will give you the perfect accelerated trajectory towards a dark hidden planet or wormhole, or just another planet with another arch, until maybe you somehow find an arch on Jool or Eve, and it sends you to another solar system, Proxima Kentauri maybe hehehe

[@JstnMcBrd]

Just FYI, to complete the "Strange Signal on the Mun" mission, you have to actually touch the arch. Edit: or the rocks near the base - they're also part of the object.

[@smooneychad]

Ah makes sense, I attempted to land the probe on it off camera but it proved too difficult since control was pretty limited. I believe I'll just send a Kerbal there (and check off the mun flag mission while I'm at it)

[@PyroYeet]

No you don't, just get in the research zone called "Monument", this does however only happen when landed, even just near it, pike 10-20m next to it

[@sonicsupersam7793]

I didnt touch it, i landed relatively close from the base of one side of the arch.

[@THEncrtrooper]

the munhole reminds me of when people went through the Mohole at launch

[@ezrarichardson279]

You could probably use the new moonhole to go interstellar with low tech or low deltaV

[@smooneychad]

I'm gonna have to try this out, since there's no new stars yet I'm wondering if I can get a fly-by of something in the Kerbolar system for cheap lol

[@ezrarichardson279]

@@smooneychad totally! lol

[@bigdogben]

omg, the munhole has the same backstory as the OG Mohole!!! A glitch.

[@skyla1884]

I don't know if you've ever done this in ksp1 but if your orbit passes through the centre of a planet and you're far enough away to time warp unrestricted, the vessel will bypass collision and accelerate to light speed after passing the core. I have some debris at the edge of the solar system because I time warped while controlling another craft and it glitched through the ground.

[@SpaceAc0rn]

the mun hole reminds me of moonfall

[@guitarfan01]

6:00 I've heard those called "flyback boosters" before in NASA planning documents for the early space shuttle designs

[@Wright1331]

First time I stumbled across your channel, and I gotta say... Wow, this was really enjoyable to watch. Great commentary, you didn't drag it out 3 times longer than needed to be, bits of humor, and nice editing. 👍👍 Also, you sound like my relatives, and I'm guessing you live in western area of Virginia.

[@smooneychad]

Thank you!! I always try to cut to the chase with my videos as much as possible, few have the time to watch someone crash prototypes for an hour (though I do wish I were one of those few lol) And you guessed it pretty much spot on, I actually grew up in western Virginia and the surrounding area!

[@Wright1331]

You nailed it, lots of youtubers try to drag it out needlessly to make a longer video, and its obvious after about 2 minutes. I usually end up blocking those channels so they dont waste my time in the future ;)@@smooneychad

[@joekeith2819]

This has inspired me to do a SSTO spaceplanes only playthrough.

[@smooneychad]

Nice! I wish you luck!

[@Idolismo]

This is a wonderful idea, just watched the first episode and this one and you just have to make more :D

[@smooneychad]

Already starting on the next episode! :D

[@UsernameInvalid48]

Fun vid dude I love it!

[@Whetfaartz1]

I love this series

[@ibukondo3657]

fantastic way to get delta V for interstellar travel >:D

[@smooneychad]

Exactly what I was thinking! Gonna definitely try actually aiming the craft, might be able to get a fly-by of something with a little effort!

[@richiecottrell8080]

great vid

[@rebel6301]

hell yeah i saw my ka-50 in the screenshot showcase there

[@smooneychad]

That was a sick build!

[@rebel6301]

@@smooneychad hell yeah :3

[@dovbaeb]

Awesome video

[@elkermino]

What a Smoontastical moment

[@rebel6301]

she smooney on my chad til i... til i ksp??

[@BusterBrannan]

agreed this moment is in smooniful

[@sourgrapes7390]

Dude just found the interstellar tesseract of the mun

[@user-ud6ju3fo4m]

Good job macking an SSTO ( I’m an idiot)

[@smooneychad]

I would bet money that I wouldn't have been able to make it an SSTO if i were actually trying to! lol

[@dynamicexplosion]

The «inputbinder» mod solved my yaw axis problems. Great mod for HOTAS and HOSAS.

[@smooneychad]

Thank you! I saw your comment and got the mod, and it's working perfectly (nice to have the throttle working as intended as well!)

[@mr.handswasright]

i notice for your air breathing engines you still have oxidizer in the tanks i suggest you take it out to save weight, and delta v.

[@annadiken2317]

There was this one movie witch I forgot the name but it had a city in side the moon and the way in looks just like that.

[@Qsxnja]

I cant wait anymore. Without part 3 i cant life anymore😢

[@smooneychad]

Well I have some good news for you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXqqooiGotCff8k

[@assyndao390]

the mun hole is a glitch

[@assyndao390]

casualy goes mach 58

[@12times12_]

I like these subtitles way better, thanks for changing them! Great video as well, really looking forward to seeing your channel grow!

[@smooneychad]

Thanks so much! Yeah the first ones were FAR too big, was a bit of an accident. Very glad you like the new ones though!

[@TlalocTemporal]

​@@smooneychad-- Fun to see a low carbon orbit in there too! Really selling the air-breathing efficiency there eh?

[@smooneychad]

Smooney Aerospace prides it's self in having the lowest carbon footprint of any aerospace company on Kerbin...(they're the only ones)

[@TlalocTemporal]

@@smooneychad -- (It's a typo of Low Kerbin Orbit)

[@smooneychad]

@@TlalocTemporal Yeah I hate myself for accidentally leaving that one in, lesson learned: don't trust AI!

[@joseteserq]

Finally 🎉

[@jacksawild]

SSTO is breaching like a whale, quick play the dinosaur music.

[@smooneychad]

There's just not enough whale related music in this world

[@Jesse_wellard]

New subscriber

[@smooneychad]

Ayy welcome! :D

[@jupiterbjy]

Kinda wondering how you get 550m/s with 5 of wheesely - Made launcher plane similar to your's yet it never go beyond 380m/s

[@smooneychad]

My guess would be it's related to drag, a lot of random parts cause immense amounts of drag in KSP 2, in my last video the tiny surface attached science jr. jr. stopped my SSTO from going past mach 1. But if you make it as dragless as possible the wheesely's are kinda OP in KSP 2 (Not so much in the original game). I can put the craft file for this launcher up in my discord if you'd like to check it out, the top speed empty is about 620 m/s! :D

[@jupiterbjy]

​@@smooneychadThat exactly was it, just removed M-Beam 200 Pocket edition, replaced that with empty fuel tanks that has way-larger crosssection, immediately shot up to 600m/s. To think having 3 Tiny beams and 7 Wheesleys getting 300m/s, while even larger crosssectional mess with 5 engine do 600m/s... idk, that's very kerbal-like! idk why I unconsciously believed KSP2 has FARc-ish better aero physics. Hope to see that as mod very soon!

[@LucaTV785]

Bruh this whale cought me Lmao🤣🤣

[@guestbuho.2927]

How cold is in this blud's room?

[@kennethstorie7597]

Cool 14:01

[@electricminecrafter]

why did the mun hole happen?, i dont have a mun hole :-(, i want a mun hole!

[@smooneychad]

From what I've been able to find it's a glitch that only happens on certain Integrated graphics. I argue it should be a feature!

[@Operator_Torbee]

WARNING! possible trypophobia at here -----> 11:35 please skip here -----> 12:44

[@Konoctirepublic]

wierd. when i did this mission there wasnt any hole

[@smooneychad]

Yeah my games terrain, is a bit "interesting"

[@wxb200]

Where you from, muh dood?

[@Qsxnja]

Hm short remimber that thousands of people waiting for part 3……..

[@smooneychad]

It's finally out! :D (sorry for the delay!)

[@arfazero1]

your game's messed up bro there's not meant to be a hole there... 10/10 Nvidia card

[@smooneychad]

oh it's worse than you think there's no card at all 💀

[@darthmemeious9526]

like no. 69.

[@Bramswarr]

Wtf is going on with your terrain? My game isnt like that; there's no hole under my arch. Maybe you have a girl mun

[@smooneychad]

From the what I can figure out online it's a specific glitch related to Iris Xe integrated graphics ( because I'm a madman running this on a laptop) messes with the terrain in a lot of other ways too, the mun hole glitch may prove useful though, given I can aim it in the right direction!

[@TlalocTemporal]

​@@smooneychad-- How the heck are you getting this to run on a laptop? Iris Xe isn't that powerful!

[@smooneychad]

@TlalocTemporal 64gb of ram for the IGPU to borrow for vram, before I upgraded it was completely unplayable and would crash on startup. Still my best fps is usually no more than 10-11 (does get more like 30fps in interplanetary space though)