Preparing to Rescue Jeb in Kerbal Space Program

Stay tuned for part two where I'll finish it off!
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[@finngayton2236]

The terrier engine has barely any thrust in atmosphere, but is fairly powerful in vacuum

[@shannanritchie1712]

dart is good for Duna because it goes from the surface to a vacuum, but the Cheetah is better for that because it's much better in a vacuum

[@nuggetnugget8552]

Ikr

[@apoapsisrocketsupplies1063]

@@shannanritchie1712 the terrier engine still works well in the thin atmosphere of duna

[@fireswill4521]

I agree I use terrier engine for landing on the mun or minmusm

[@adweitgharat1621]

The terrier is also very efficient

[@theneonbop]

You can make maneuver nodes without a connection to the kerbal space center, but only if you bring a pilot kerbal. Bob is a scientist, so you couldn't.

[@ReidCaptain]

Bob needs to get educated

[@SpringBonnie1983]

Haha mods go node node node

[@duckindustries526]

what was your first rocket to land on mun? minewas 5 kickbacks, two terriers, some fuel and all of this being 1,5 meters. now i have my best pilot stranded on the mun ): I'm gonna rescue her today because i dont have any more 1 star pilots (edit:) I'm gonna rescue her using a smol plane with prodobyne powered by Ion engines and terriers powered by solar power because thats just C H E A P

[@gamingwithmatt9561]

​@@ReidCaptain Strand him on duna with only pilot training videos and now he's a pilot

[@snipa_monkeh164]

@@duckindustries526 how did it go?

[@paggnut]

Sacrifices are not supposed to be taken back

[@jackthaller7636]

Once a gift is given it cannot be taken back

[@adventureaeryck]

but you can when they die. Right?

[@aargon1475]

>berserk

[@SephirothRyu]

The Kraken will be upset...

[@theeyelord9307]

if it’s not jeb your right but it’s jeb JEB for god sake we need him back

[@kevinj9578]

Oh hey, you're using may logo! All the logos for the in-game brands were done by fans in a contest, and I did the Kerlington one. It always makes me proud to see it used by people, even like 8 years after the contest.

[@caps_lock]

reid, the small engine you tried on your rocket before switching out for a dart was vacuum optimized: meaning it doesnt work on the surface of kerbin but excels for manuevering in space (and since duna barely has surface pressure, that extends to it as well)

[@mailbox3982]

If I tried this I would just make a ridiculously expensive water heater and Jeb would die.

[@LoganMeyers03]

1:44 I prefer to call it the "Thrust-o-meter" ;)

[@ReidCaptain]

Lol that's a good name

[@NStripleseven]

Very science

[@LoganMeyers03]

@@ReidCaptain Thanks xD

[@saerder2328]

The terrier works well in space, but has less power than a firework in the atmosphere

[@ReidCaptain]

Makes sense, I didn't know how it was going to perform in duna's atmosphere

[@mohammedmunir6419]

@@ReidCaptain In the VAB, you can set the DeltaV tool to show the stats in any planet if you want, so it would show you how any of the stages would perform in any planet atmosphere at any height. You can look at more detailed stats of the stage by clicking at the deltaV panel of the stage at the side to show other stats, such as ISP, (if enabled) Thrust to weight ratio, stage burn duration, and a few other stats.

[@saerder2328]

@@ReidCaptain it worked well for me in duna but thats probably because duna's atmosphere is almost nonexistent

[@itisrandomidk903]

@@ReidCaptain use the cheat panel to teleport to duna on a test world

[@crabbyeric900]

Is this the hit children's movie from 2008 titled "Fly Me To The Moon", receiving a 20% rating on rotten tomatoes?

[@Enderia2]

giving me SmallAnt flashbacks rn.

[@disabledlegs9419]

you should make a rocket propelled by... well, propellers :)

[@ReidCaptain]

That would be neat!

[@naidoeshacks]

How’s that gonna work in space?🤔

[@disabledlegs9419]

@@naidoeshacks yes

[@naidoeshacks]

@@disabledlegs9419 good idea 👍

[@chro.]

@@naidoeshacks yeah theres no air

[@saw9634]

" the terrier engines didnt even get me of the ground" **proceeds to put a dart engine**

[@BingusTheWockis]

Read up on the Oberth Effect, it would save you tons of fuel. Basically, the Oberth Effect says that capture and escape maneuvers around celestial bodies is much more efficiently done when close to the bodies in question.

[@Lucius-Caecilius]

Build a rocket bus that drops kerbals on multiple planets in one launch each with a lunar lander, love your videos :)

[@holdenleeb2312]

“The thrust thing, whatever it’s called” It literally says throttle on it

[@destroyertank14]

I love the fact that the card just said "This"

[@itsalily_lei_lei]

I accidentally stranded Jeb on my first manned Mun landing. Val tried to rescue him a few years later and got stranded (right next by Jeb). After 22 years of Jeb being stuck on the Mun and Val telling Jeb about her multiple Minmus landings, they finally were saved.

[@TheLittlebobby3]

Noticed no one has mentioned a mid-course burn. Once you got your encounter with Duna, make another maneuver node about 1/2 to duna.. make sure duna is still selected as your target, you can double click the planet and it will focus it. you can then fine tune a maneuver to give you a MUCH closer encounter with duna while using tiny amount of deltaV (between 5-15m/s) I personally use my mouse wheel because it can be VERY sensitive. And this part took me forever to figure out, if you press the ‘ key that’s below your ESC key it will refocus your current ship. Saved me so much time when I learned these things.

[@superliogaming]

U know there is crew cabins that are made to transport astronauts, they’re perfectly circular so it fits perfect under the cockpit

[@velcrostapler5139]

now abandon all sanity and break the game again like when jeb broke gravity

[@ReidCaptain]

I have no idea how that happened but I wish I could recreate it

[@AAaa-jc5sk]

@@ReidCaptain make dong shaped rocket.(or you can’t do that?)

[@velcrostapler5139]

@@AAaa-jc5sk milk

[@velcrostapler5139]

@@ReidCaptain hey, just imagine: the game breaks so theres gravity in space what will you do

[@burger-jd8cx]

@@velcrostapler5139 but... there already is

[@salticus]

You don't always need a connection to the KSC for Maneuver nodes, a pilot Kerbal should also be able to do that.

[@aidan9411]

So, some engines are optimized for vaccum and thus give no thrust in atmosphere. Examples include the Terrier, Nerv, Poodle, and wolfhound

[@movedchannel5367]

terrier engines are amazing for orbital maneuvers, however they barely work in-atmosphere

[@roeland8632]

Reid: I experimented with some engines but went back to the dart engine because there good. Some of the extremists in the community: 🤬🤬🤬🤬💥💥

[@jackwolf3030]

My man, you gotta take control of your urge to overbuild things. A cool rocket regardless

[@TheSoschianGamer]

Three things I noticed: 1. Trying to exactly match up orbits when wanting an encounter with another spacecraft is okay when you're first trying it, however, it is usually better to have a slighty smaller/lager orbit if you need to catch/the probe needs to catch up. It just then takes less orbits for you to be near each other. 2. I know this is probably part roleplay, but circularizing your orbits while planning for reentry is mostly unnecessary. It just burns more fuel. Of ocurse if you have enough this isn't that much of a problem, but when the acutal mission comes you should not plan to do taht, as not to jeopardize the mission in the final stage 3. The docking ports were...interesting? But you can also use them as decouplers. While they are not as strong structually (which becomes a problem during launch, when a lot of thrust is being out through the spacecraft) I think struts can be placed and must be cut manually, although this is knowledge from about four years ago in modded KSP, so I don't know how well it holds up.

[@mamanjawula8151]

I just got kerbal space program and watching you build just made me 10x better at building

[@infamousquest]

The terrier is one of the best engines for vacuum it won't take you anywhere unless you are in orbit and it's usually used for non atmosphere landings

[@gott2016]

what is that supposed to mean, terrier just works in vacuum, altitude doesn’t matter much

[@infamousquest]

@@gott2016 well kerbin has a atmosphere and you need to exit the atmosphere to have a steady orbit so once your in orbit the terrier can be used

[@alexandrechartrand64]

tips on rendez-vous make your orbit a bit smaller than the orbit of the object you want to rendez vous, then wait until a point where both your space crafts are near-ish. after that, get an encounter at the point approximatly where you would be at the same place as the object, much easier that way cheers

[@randomtalkingmicrophone]

Love your content!

[@ReidCaptain]

Thanks!

[@dannypipewrench533]

Thank you, Jeb.

[@GtsAntoni1]

Fun video. You really need to start understanding TWR and specific impulse. Checking the values for each stage in their intended environment. Judging an engine based on whether it can take off from Kerbin sea level is a rather flawed strategy 🤣

[@MrSuperPatar]

Love the kerbal kontent. can't wait for you to make videos in kerbal 2

[@orangespuddy7118]

Super cool, I hadn’t realized you could do space stations in kerbal

[@lennartlaos3996]

Love ur vids keep going!

[@SephirothRyu]

**continues going on about asparagus for some reason**

[@josefuensalidasouper9077]

Those wings are very big, use the smallest ones, they still work for that

[@Lucid0881]

you can see engines thrust at sea level and in a vacuum in the description. also, there is isp which means how efficient those engines are (TIP: use nuclear engines for longer trips because they don't require oxidizer)

[@Lucid0881]

if you are reading this i LOVE ur channel keep it up!

[@mathdantastav2496]

those terriers engine would work pretty well on duna you can still track anything without a probe on the air, you just need to turn on "junk" on your tracker, cause itll show up as "junk" also, you should probly mess with your orbit while in interplanetary space, so that when you get an encounter, its a close encounter (

[@ReidCaptain]

Good tips, I need to get better at planning out maneuvers so I can save myself a lot more fuel.

[@brandonzhang760]

Wahoo! more kerbal!

[@archibaldplays3982]

Quite refreshing seeing non-experts playing :) Keep at it

[@mariageamalinga8434]

That rocket could be the worst impresion of the saturn v ever

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

The reason your terrier didn't do anything is because it is a vacuum optimised engine. Larger expansion ratio bell means its very efficient (and powerful) in a vacuum but practically worthless at sea level on Kerbin. The dart is a special kind of bell called an aerospike, which in theory is optimized for every altitude. That's why it can get so much efficiency in space while retaining all its thrust on the surface Lastly, your lander at the end wanted to face down because of the fin placement. The centre of lift always wants to be behind the centre of mass in the direction of travel. Think of it like a dart

[@davidharriswegner8921]

Funnily enough, my dad used to work for the company that designed the dart engines. (Rocketdyne)

[@boxed_in4357]

Thats why I use spare kerbals as my *ahem* “testificates”

[@carboncoom6234]

You should make a video of making a rocket powered boat in ksp

[@Aiden-zv4pw]

You tested a vacuum, optimized engine on the surface of Kerbin a point with a thick atmosphere

[@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038]

Those Delta wings can hold fuel, bit they are empty by default, you have to use the slider.

[@gen2mediainc.577]

ah, a classic. Stranding your crew

[@samshalliker575]

With the engines there's two stats you really want to pay attention to, its ISP and its thrust. ISP is basically how efficient the engine is (there's one for in atmosphere and vacuum). The terrier has a very high ISP in vacuum but garbage ISP in atmosphere its why it wasn't able to get of the pad with such a low payload. Thrust kinda speaks for itself Hopefully that helps with engine choices in future :). Also it would be very fun to see you try and build a plane for mars as it has a much thinner atmosphere (extra points if its a prop plane).

[@itisrandomidk903]

Remember kids, always read the rocket engine manual

[@YMandarin]

1:33 the engines intended for this adapter are the mastodons. The mainsails are way to big lol. This adapter is modeled after the Saturn V. And the according engine is the Mastodon, which is modeled after the F1.

[@aidan9411]

I mean, you could also change the variant of the mainsail so it fits as well

[@travpots6318]

Good job

[@TheOnlyMiolli]

Omg that first rocket was So Kerbal. Post Edit: It might help you save some fuel if you burned radial in or out/normal or antinormal as soon as you're first encountering your desired planetary body to change your orbital plane and orbital trajectory before you hit your Periapsis during an initial flyby. In addition to saving some fuel on plane changes, the closer the Pe is to the planet/moon, the more the Oberth Effect takes effect, allowing you to make even more efficient burns when attempting to change your flyby into an orbit or your orbit into a descent. Same rule applies on ascent and when getting into orbit.

[@valynandorfer1306]

all things considered very good video

[@kierandoesthings6898]

This video makes me so mad terrier engines are super use full but only with out atmosphere like space, you can click on the delta v symbol at the bottom task bar in the VAB (it looks like a triangle) to select what planet/moon your on and then click on the engine symbol on the side bar in the VAB/(your staging bar) to see how much TWR it has, so 1 TWR makes it hover anything over that make it go up anything less makes it slowly fall.

[@kierandoesthings6898]

also wing don't work in space so they're just making you top stage heavier and thus cant go as far, plus you only need wing at the bottom of you craft they are counterproductive at the top.

[@theresamongan7667]

Every ksp yt Jen is stranded

[@tonyhakston536]

Oh, quick tip, you know how the mainsails clipped through the little hoods? You can actually change the model some engines use if you right click.

[@forg3214]

Terrier engines are intended for vacuum use lol

[@grogman493]

the terrier is vacuumed optimized so it doesn't produce that much thrust in atmosphere

[@luckylmj]

The terrier engine has about 1/3 of the ISP and the thrust when it's in an atmosphere. Just FYI. It's a very good engine for landers and the like Edit: Also I'd recommend using some aesthetic mods like Waterfall and Scatterer

[@budgi3bloops338]

100,000 meters is really high above the Mun, as it has no atmosphere 20,000 is fine.

[@urdailycupoftea1475]

Can’t wait til he saves Jeb

[@Hello_human_]

next video: rescuing jeb with only monopropellant

[@tagewiklund8566]

When is the next ”building a computer in scrap mechanic” gonna come out?

[@janpilkowski226]

Your airbrakes were upsidedown that made rocket's nose pointing down

[@JayTayPlay]

love it :)

[@Lumberjack_king]

All of your ksp vids have been kerbal stranding program

[@jackthaller7636]

I like videos where you do something in a game that’s not meant to do it. Like the poly bridge catapults and engines in besiege and scrap mechanic. Though I do like all of the kbs programs

[@Kallyn]

I feel like an interface like this would be really nice for NASA actually launching rockets

[@YMandarin]

perfect for the last ksp update

[@paul1156]

I’m still waiting for Kevin’s cameo

[@WOWtheBrit]

I actually saved 2 kerbals the other day I had gotten them stuck back in the first year of my save and saved them at the end of the second year it took so many iterations of ships I tried space shuttles and regular rockets of varying sizes I landed on the mun maybe twice after the kerbals were stuck one time was with a buggy and another was a shoddy version of starship but the rover which I made to drive the kerbals to the rocket that lands on the mun and that crashed and then my starship well it wasn't the best in the end I launched a new design I had managed to confirm it could orbit the moon angle itself so it would land near enough to the lander and finally finally after all that time I landed it, i got jeb and bob on board the lander and flew back to kerbin and now I've launched bill into deep space along with some other kerbals and now they are stuck there so time for a new rescue midsion

[@nurbglegit2607]

The terrier is a vakum optimiset engine so for bodys without an atmosphere (or youst a very weak one) it wouldn‘t be bad 0:41

[@danieleveritt4086]

You'd save alot of Delta v if you did a mid course correction to get a lower periapsis for Ur initial encounter as the correction would be really cheap but would save a considerable amount of Delta v

[@crusaderguy1817]

Hey, quick question why do u never use command capsule mk 2?

[@gflaig9131]

Poor Jeb

[@Lucid0881]

when returning from the mun don't aim your apoapsis to kerbin because you are adding extra velocity that way instead you should aim opposite of kerbin to save some delta-v

[@jamie7647]

I remember a long time ago people would make joke rockets out of stack decouplers, i wonder if that’s still possible?

[@O5MO]

Yes

[@GriziDaWiz]

It’s surprising that people can make actual rockets in this game. I just make manned ballistic missiles that sometimes hit the moon.

[@malksy1014]

The sequal of jebs um. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ..

[@nickgamer1782]

Nasa would be proud

[@TartarusTheMartianAkaLau]

me seeing Reid deleting the terrier: SON OF A B-

[@kangaroo1814]

I remember when i was like this. Long time ago

[@boxed_in4357]

You should do a Science mode play through sometime

[@poopalachas5200]

that i card was funny

[@Eir-0000]

you use the "masterdon" engine on the big fuel tank

[@thehypersonicbuild9919]

What about the Mastodon engine for the first stage?

[@eliasjohnson9206]

Can you do some “dream car builder” plane tutorials?

[@eliasjohnson9206]

@Barack Obama I know that he has, but I’m looking for an in detail tutorial for a basic plane that can be modified

[@specil-k]

it's sammy time

[@mokey345]

you should try spaceflight simulator, which is VERY similar but 2d and based in our solar system

[@jackthaller7636]

You should have taken Jeb off and left some other kerbal

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

Rocket propelled speedboat when

[@anshsgh6092]

New video release, i click

[@Burntpankake08]

i am very fond of bill

[@porfiunratitomas5429]

you need about half an antenna

[@powerstreak6142]

Why is he doing KZbin when he really could be an astronaut

[@LC-mq8iq]

Make an SSTO next!

[@weirdbritishperson9542]

Hey, I’ve just started playing this game on Xbox and love this game, but I’m having trouble with the Mk.16 Parachute. No matter what altitude I put it at to open it just opens at 1000 metres. Can anyone help. Im getting really frustrated with it

[@totallynone621]

Is it possible to make station in mars with jeb?

[@Jintysarecool]

can you play sfs or spaceflight simulater its basicly a 2d version of ksp but u do have to pay for more stuff to use for your rocket