"Starchaser" - Single Stage to ANYWHERE! Minmus, Duna, Ike and Laythe in ONE LAUNCH

[@ShadowZone]

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[@alanwatts8239]

ShadowZone Could you make some SSTO tutorials on stock or modded ksp? Like using KSP interestellar extended, i would love to see some explosions! XD

[@devans.5324]

KSPI YEEEEEE

[@collegiatebuilds4505]

Don’t worry SZ, I’ve been playing KSP since late 2015 and I’ve never left Kerbin’s sphere of influence. Just today I landed on Minmus and almost didn’t make it back!

[@schiefer1103]

I am subscribed, even though I don't play the game anymore. In fact, I have gone from a regular PC gamer to a casual gamer, and not exclusively PC. I have gotten bored of my favourite games, only using what still rules my mind as a means of distracting myself from the time I have nothing to do in. I really need a new hobbie lol I am subscribed to so many channels whose videos I watch but the games they are playing aren't what I care about anymore, I care about visuals and knowledge, so, basically the definition of watching TV.

[@wellingtonharris7504]

ShadowZone you could have put this spacecraft on top of a rocket in a faring still a cool video though

[@squeakychickengamer7911]

A relatively small ShadowZone craft? Impossible!

[@ShadowZone]

+SqueakyChickenGamer actually I wanted to make it even smaller, with only two Rapiers. Didn't work out though.

[@squeakychickengamer7911]

This must be an imposter! ;) Another great video, man! Oh, and by the way, are submitting anything for Mark Thrimm's cargo freighter? Or is the part limit keeping you from entering?

[@ShadowZone]

+SqueakyChickenGamer he already got something from me ;) Personally I think he should use a craft from one of his subscribers, though. There's a lot of great builders out there who don't have their own channel to present their creations.

[@squeakychickengamer7911]

How'd you submit it? Did you email him? Because I submitted mine in the comments, is there another way to do it?

[@ShadowZone]

+SqueakyChickenGamer we have other means of communication since the collaboration station series ;)

[@logandarnell8946]

Orbiting is just falling with style

[@ShadowZone]

I would say it is the art of falling while missing the ground.

[@lsswappedcessna]

Falling infinitely with adjustments

[@red_five3325]

To infinity and beyond!

[@kamikazeHND]

Ksp playeras: i fear no moon but that thing Tylo. Its scares me

[@ShadowZone]

+kamikazeHND 6000m/s dV and TWR of 2 and up for the lander tend to help ;)

[@ShadowZone]

This has been a long time coming. A lot of iterations went into the bin before I finally made an SSTA that was easy to fly and also looked good.

[@Jacob-bi1oq]

I knew something was coming. When is your new series starting?

[@carlsagan1377]

ShadowZone, what is your favorite place in the Kerbol system?

[@ShadowZone]

+Carl Sagan Hey Carl, greetings into the beyond. It fluctuates between Laythe and Duna. Both are always rewarding to visit.

[@thesupertendent8973]

ShadowZone: this is quite good.. I like it, but.. I wonder if a cargo version is possible.. Ya know 👍 Really like the vid :)

[@zman1064]

ShadowZone hey were did you get you grafic mods? what web site?

[@HebaruSan]

Nice aerocaptureencounter! Like Hazard-ish's, but not faked up! That tailplane structure is nice as well.

[@nickfelten5068]

The M.I.L.K.-Journey (Minimus-Ike-Laythe-Kerbin)

[@tacticalkyuubi8147]

Guardian of sikrit documints how does one start from minmus?

[@nickfelten5068]

how do you mean that?

[@donut5818]

It’s kinda like KEKKJ, the route starts at kerbin orbit

[@thekornwulf]

I would have gone with "M.I.L.K run"

[@capt_kelris9954]

Finishing on Eeloo could have done the "MILKEE way" (too bad there's no "y" moon anywhere...)

[@RamLaska]

14:52 The Shuttle flew S-Curves to bleed excess speed after re-entry. I think the reentry itself was straight +40º pitch, IIRC.

[@MarcusHouse]

Awesome! I want one. :)

[@ShadowZone]

Well, there IS a link to KerbalX in the description ;)

[@판사님저는오늘만삽니]

thank you!!

[@shrike6243]

I'm right there with you, Shadow. My wife and I have an understanding that, should I ever be offered a chance to go to space (however unlikely that may be) I am *going* to take it.

[@DoRC]

if third parties can make these awesome graphics mods why dont the developers do it. seems like it would be a no brainer.

[@NFITC1]

The devs can. They purposefully don't so lower end systems can still play it.

[@thebooboo3269]

I am late but I really don’t care about graphics too much. But I like the gameplay

[@dat1pengu1n]

wait until he finds ksp 2

[@thick45]

@@dat1pengu1n where's ksp 2?

[@niteshmurti]

17:04 requires epilepsy warning. Also, you should consider going to Mars in BFR if your dream is space travel

[@takeeto9894]

I've been playing since 2014 and I never landed on the Mun.

[@anonymousstern487]

Infinite Rage lol

[@MrNight-dg1ug]

Infinite Rage it is a little hard when you have 11 FPS with small crafts all low settings, and 5 FPS when flying. 👌🏼

[@aevaristus2410]

What kind of computer are you using that can run ksp that low? A potato?

[@lonelypilot3610]

I use a potato laptop and it runs alright. A bit laggy

[@BananaBlaster64]

Rip i landed on mun after 2 months of playing

[@lenizacastello]

"Ive been playing this game since 2015 and never landed on Ike." Ive been playing this game since 2011 and never orbited Kerbin.

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Impressive.

[@diamondmcgaming2866]

I’ve been to jool

[@majinstreams8127]

It’s been about a year for me but yea same boat

[@coffeespy1133]

@@majinstreams8127 how do u stay interested in the game lol

[@muhammedsillah3363]

so what do you do when you play?

[@FairFireFight]

Probably the best SSTA video of all time, people make giant aircraft (ahm marcus house) this is simple and nice good work bud

[@scanimate68]

With the such low of amount of parts this had, I'm really impressed that it can travel anywhere. I have downloaded this for myself, and it handles very well for what it is. Great Kerbal vehicle.

[@billnye9108]

I have only 2 things to criticize about your craft. 1. you only need 4 shock cones for your R.A.P.I.E.Rs, the rest of your intakes are unneeded (well maybe one more shock cone for Layth) 2. your back wheels are powered by witchcraft, there floating! great SSTA btw

[@CarloRizzante]

Great inspiration as always. It would be interesting to see how you talented/experienced KSP folks would solve similar challenges with some sort of Life Support mod. So to add the slight bit of realism. I know, KSP is a game, nonetheless, the more of a challenge, the more of the fun :)

[@ShadowZone]

+Carlo Rizzante some day I might try some RO stuff ;)

[@MrSelothi]

That's really a very pretty craft, ShadowZone. I'm surprised you could limit yourself to so few parts ;)

[@matsv201]

Both the Rapier and Nerva engine exist in real life.. sort of Most engines been nerfed int he game. But the Nerva engine and the rapier (called sabre in real life) have been nerfed the most. Mostly the thrust to weight have been reduced from the real life 8.8 to only 2 in KSP. The atm performance have been nefed even more. The ISP of the real one was about 875. Later model had even better performance with a ISP of about 1000. (theoretically, it was never test fired) For the Rapier/Sabre they kind of revresed the data. In real life its more power full in space than sea level. With a Thrust to weight ratio of 14 at sea level and 22 in space. (about twice as in the game) and the ISP for the real life one is 460, so quite a lot more than in the game. There is two major problem with building this plane in real life. The real engines need Hydrogen to work. They can´t work on Jet-A (as in KSP). Hydrogen got 1/4 the density. so the tanks need to be huge. The other issue is that KSP is 1/10 real life size. A real plane would need having a lot more delta-V to get to space........

[@Mandoon]

Brilliant mate!

[@armchairrocketscientist4934]

Are you going to do a planet/moon hopping tour of the Kerbol system? Go to the moon, go to Minmus, go to Moho, go to Eve, go to Gilly, go to Duna, to Dres, To Jool's Moons, then to Eeloo, and then finally land back at the KSC. I want to see that in a single mission.

[@Fireheart318]

WOAH! I LOVE what you did with the tail/engine shroud!

[@kaizer0002]

Been working on my own SSTA for a while, your's gave me a few ideas. Not sure why you put the lift behind the center of mass, but I've been making a few tweaks through playtesting (adding fly by wire to the nose so I can fly a scientist around, shedding some weight, thinking of adding more radiators). Still, it beats my solution - using xenon gas for 1 hour maneuver burns and sending gas station miners in advance of it.

[@MrBirdnose]

Putting the center of mass ahead of the center of lift is a basic requirement for pitch stability. In that configuration either the horizontal stabilizer is holding the tail down, or the canard is holding the nose up. As you slow, the canard or tail loses effectiveness faster than the main wing, so the aircraft automatically tends to pitch down to regain speed; as you gain speed, the tail or canard generates more force and pitches the plane up to slow it again. If you put the center of mass behind the center of lift, now the horizontal stabilizer is holding the tail up...so as the plane slows, the tail lowers, and the plane loses even more speed -- making it unstable in pitch. In extreme cases, it may enter a "deep stall" where you have low airspeed, and can't get the nose down to get enough airflow over the wings to start flying again. It may also go into unrecoverable flat spins. In real planes calculating the center of gravity is part of preflight checks, and the manual will state a range it has to be in.

[@Zamolxes77]

4:20 For take off in these cases, I usually mount 2-4 unidirectional monoprop or vernor engines next to the front wheel hub, activate RCS, lift the plane on his tail or as far as it would go, then blast off main engines at full throttle, then turn off RCS. Works like a charm, 4 vernor engines were enough to lift my 68 tons SSTO in correct attitude, on the Mun.

[@jetskiwu]

Look I had a hard time getting to Duna, you on the other hand, you're going places

[@ninjaed13]

I made an SSTO today which, once refueled at minmus has about 4km/s deltaV. You've just given me a pretty good idea of what to try to do with it... Needs a little work though because it's only 4km/s if I ditch the refinery after using it on minmus which wouldn't work here.

[@marcortiz7503]

amazing! you did a very very good job!

[@generalkenobi243]

Kingdom music ! Excellent ! Just as the entire video !

[@maroon5man]

Ike was the first thing I ever landed on and Dres was the second. I quite like them despite what people say

[@DanielRamirez-vm3be]

John Stevens You are the only person that likes dres... it's a big rock between Duna and Jool

[@Knoar]

Very well edited video. Good job.

[@matthewgates2474]

Ike is named after iron. At least, it shares its name with Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, and there's references to his "I like Ike" slogan in some of the science blurbs.

[@ajxfsu]

I just finished my journey to Sarnus and back in this thing :D

[@ShadowZone]

+Артем Соков great to hear that! Love that ring planet.

[@brandonedwards1181]

is it a mod ?

[@Noah-lu6cs]

Looks awesome

[@artembubnov275]

I always asking myself...is Eve the one of "Anywhere"?

[@eekee6034]

Being stuck in a Mk1 cockpit is better than just a command chair! XD But the nearest thing I've made to an SSTA goes in the opposite direction. It sacrifices high gravity capability in favour of crew comfort. With 14 seats for a crew of 4, it can launch from any of the smaller moons and planets. It's got 2 "orange tanks" for fuel capacity, and takes quite a while to fill itself. I wasn't thinking "SSTA"; I hadn't even heard the term when I built it. I was thinking "independence"; essentially a mobile home in which to escape the chains of society and government. EDIT: It only takes a long time to fill when uncrewed - about a Kerbin year. With 2 max-level engineers on board, I think it takes less than 2 Kerbin weeks. I had to land in the dark, once. Because I was nervous, I flew over hundreds of kilometers of relatively flat plains and crashed into a lovely hill at the end! XD Nobody died, but the ship -- a long string of Mk2 parts -- bent into the funniest shape.

[@RepublicofMarsGaming]

I have played since 2015, and have 600 hours, and i can barely get to Duna 1-way. Well Done!

[@striatic]

No tilt wing? Pfft. Unimpressed. /s

[@ShadowZone]

+striatic I am truly sorry.

[@HyperModzHD]

+striatic Fun fact, Hazardish faked that video

[@aggroknight4259]

VenoM Sort of. It wasn't completely intentional either.

[@jellybangs]

well, It could have been, why was his engine modified in the first place?

[@itemboxes8741]

Things that you should never attempt in real life, but that work just fine in KSP: Powersliding at hypersonic speeds through fire! XD

[@germanwithabass267]

the starchaser looks like a future eurofighter jet

[@lonelypilot3610]

The one that goes to fucking space XD

[@alanwatts8239]

I have a SSTO ship program that can get anywere too, the ship is extremely efficient I get about 8k Delta V after mining on either minmus or gilly (it can leave kerbin and maneuver out of it if no cargo is on board) The ship was called journeyman because i only use them on my main account, about 4 presets for the same ship (a cargo ssto that can launch a 8-12 ton cargo if you mine minmus, a science space plane that uses a science bay inside the cargo bay (6 ton total), a blank preset that has no cargo bay at all, it has a crew tank instead, i used it on rescue missions (i don't like to F5 all the time, it makes ksp a lot easier :c) so i don't have to pay new crew if i manage to strand someone c': and the one i never use, a have-it-all space plane that launches with a full ore tank and a set of solid fuel b's I love ksp! :D

[@jeremytate4795]

9 Years in the cockpit, that's gotta hurt.

[@kawabunga9945]

Hello ShadowZone, really like your work and videos :) Do u plan on doing some cool builds on the ps4 version? The enhanced new one releasing soon... Guess it's gonna be hard on ps4, but i can't wait to get my hands on this beauty o7

[@TrayTerra]

Nice. Working on a similar design as well, basically adapting a rover I made into an ssta drone ship similar to this as a prototype befote manning it and hopefully capable of the same. I’ve only just started to mine ore on a serious level, finally, but I haven’t been able to get a lot out of it. Like 0.0032 accruement per whatever it is (hr/day/yr)

[@icantthinkofausername2605]

Forget the craft... I need to know how to make names like this _starchaser_

[@mattm4337]

A proper use of the Oberth Effect would be doing a maneuver from Mun orbit to lower your Periapsis to 71km and then burning at peri to eject to Duna. There's some math behind it, basically the faster you go the higher your effective ISP and therefore efficiency.

[@69way3Emp]

How do you hide the interface

[@ShadowZone]

+blademon7 Gaming just press F2 on your keyboard.

[@69way3Emp]

ShadowZone thanks

[@nightsmusicuk]

amazing

[@Greyflex]

Ike was my very first interplannetary trip !

[@HDTomo]

If it is an ssto that can reach eeloo and laythe, it's safe to say it's all planets compatible

[@Vizaru]

Love the craft, so I downloaded the craft. On inspection, I found that the CoM is below the CoT vector. How does this not create instability, or a tendency to nose down? Thanks

[@cameronmcpherson6364]

I love the neo flamenco music.

[@joshrakes4354]

Is this design capable of achieving orbit on Eve?

[@MakarovFox]

so cool

[@quickaxe13]

do a build video pls

[@dakotakhan5883]

When he lands on Minimus over 10 days have passed in the mission yet if you look at the time when he takes off less than 1 day has passed?

[@Zamolxes77]

Poor Duning, eternity in a chair lol ! Looks really good, I built something similar, but I prefer a higher TWR in space, so it has 2 nukes.

[@notkdoge4217]

this is really good for jool 5 missions

[@maroon5man]

Kdoge20YT it'd be a pain to land on tylo with though

[@joldsaway3489]

We choose to land on Tylo, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!

[@ediblerubber]

I wish console players could get the craft files to do this, being able to use stuff like this would make KSP so much more fun for me.

[@mrwilson.1]

Hi.... wanted to know how you are able to transfer directly from Minmus to Duna?

[@oscarwhalley8223]

Can you do a larger version of this? I tried (And Failed :( )

[@turmat01]

Hey man! What is that mod that makes you see the portion of you trajectory that is inside atmosphere? (5:43 - 5:48) Thanks and awesome video like always!

[@turmat01]

also I laughed pretty good at the "ikeclipse" XD

[@gloverelaxis]

"Trajectories" by Youen and Kobymaru; it's on CKAN

[@zegamingcuber857]

But can it land on Eve without anything exploding?

[@erumaaro6060]

Trajectory can account for AoA, but only if you tell it to and give it the angle itself.

[@ShadowZone]

Interesting, I didn't know that before. Thank you!

[@erumaaro6060]

to be fair, ive practicly never used it and its not 100% accurate as it assumes that the AoA stays constant. So if you are performing an aerobrake at an angle that isnt stable aerodynamicly, well, a little wobble here, a little wobble there and you miss the runway and get a close encounter with rapid unplanned dissasembly...

[@aevaristus2410]

Man, I love Matt Lowne's Acacius 2, but this blows it out of the water looks-wise; correct me if I'm wrong, but the Acacius 2 does seem more functional with a larger ISRU though.

[@weslajdik]

When landing on Minmus, mission time was T+ 18 days. When leaving Minmus, after many days of refuelling, mission time was T+ 0days, 5 hours. How??

[@Deadlesssedg]

How do i make one

[@Talbottechify]

"once we wait a few days" goes from ~6 hours in flight to 1y 148days lol

[@elmemegoat9290]

how did you start? my engines didnt even reached 10k height

[@capt_kelris9954]

How the heck do you manage to let mining and refinery running together days and days long without vaporizing you electricity charge??

[@Baleur]

While cool, this is why i simply cant play the game WITHOUT mods that add life support requirements such as oxygen used by the pilots, and food and water. It just feels so wrong to have a pilot sitting alone in space for YEARS in perpetual survival without any food requirements.

[@Helperbot-2000]

Well at least it wasnt like the few ton crafts to x vids lol

[@archdornan4389]

Why all the extra intakes? So far as I know, you only need 1 shock cone per two rapiers.

[@ShadowZone]

It's prettier that way.

[@leogamerhd3957]

How do you make that ship coz I'm really into the game I don't know how to orbit and the mods you used please someone help

[@albertcazares9092]

didnt matt lowne do this already?

[@ShadowZone]

+albert cazares maybe. I'm definitely not the first one to do a build capable of this.

[@maroon5man]

albert cazares yeah I just think he did a different design I think this one is smaller

[@albertcazares9092]

They do seem to be dexently different from each other

[@nn-re7ci]

how can I install stock visual enhancements mod

[@mateusz_0]

With winrar and stuff

[@RegiRaidillonVT]

And is that the soundtrack from mountyourfriends

[@RegiRaidillonVT]

and I'm early

[@misterx7898]

"Apple apps" 12:01 automatic subtitles are the best!

[@incompetencelogistics8924]

how do you turn off the UI

[@kerby-qy3pr]

Does it go to Eeloo?

[@meculusthree3621]

How do you power the drill without solar panels?

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

With solar panels. He was using Solar panels. Or Batteries... Or, use a ton of that thing that generates like, .3 Electricity.

[@DV-13]

Why would you fly with tanks full of ore? Anyway, a great mission as always.

[@ShadowZone]

+DV-13 I probably just forgot about them. Would have been prudent to convert them right after the Laythe launch.

[@aviationforlive7434]

Can somebody help me I can just add thrust if I put the tgrust button 10000 times it takes hours to set th ethrust

[@spoopy6359]

+ShadowZone would you do the Jool5 again?

[@ShadowZone]

I just finished my "Jeb lost his keys" series where I in essence performed a Jool-5 mission. But I will definitely visit Jool's moons in the future.

[@spoopy6359]

yeah i just mean thats the 2nd time would you not get bored of it or would you do it again?

[@ugandaknuckles5394]

Depois de anos, eu descobri a função dessas brocas

[@gemdragon8984]

does it work on tylo?

[@gilli8669]

I have never landed on Ike either but i got mine in 2014

[@thetruemystic_]

Great video! Might want to stick an epilepsy warning on those timelapses tho!

[@GT86GT400]

Very nice but there was more than one launch :D Launch from Minmus, ike :D

[@ChiefSmackahoLLC]

Nice video

[@TheHolsback]

What is this name of mod???

[@randomstuffiliketopost8082]

17:04 EPILEPSY WARNING

[@ioresult]

In order to use the Oberth effect with Duna, you first need not to slow down into a low orbit. You lose all the advantages of the Oberth effect when you slow down. The Oberth effect happens when you burn at the fastest possible point in your orbit. At periapsis.

[@ShadowZone]

That is true. However, Pe was on the wrong side of Duna. I definitely ended up using less dV this way than by ejecting directly from Ike. I probably should have waited until Ike came around on the other side, but I was impatient.

[@reignrevival2689]

26:00 you can remove their helmets will on Eva and I'm an atmosphere

[@gamingllama7271]

Pls do a tutorial on how to build

[@expiredlamb2000]

Gamingllama or use the download link to get the craft file

[@ChinBiter47]

could this land on eve?

[@Bergmann69]

Dude whats the music at your ike landing???

[@ShadowZone]

"Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod. All music info is always in the description.

[@seedz5132]

So, you believe Ike is made of iron ? Or, put another way, you believe Ike is iron... ma(i)de(n) .. since it looks so ... metal ? (i'm already EVAing)

[@Lukeyman7]

ShadowZone duna is the planet that mould be iron because the reason that its soil is red, is because of the iron that is rusted in its soild and ik would be more volcanic rock.

[@stevenliang354]

Can this SSTA land on eve and get back? Is the thrust enough to take off from eve?

[@xXxbloodhoodxXx1]

What is the list of mods you use?