Using only Dart Engines to Land on Eve in Kerbal Space Program

Why wing it when you can do math then wing it?
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[@ReidCaptain]

I will eventually rescue all the Kerbals that I left behind, but I want to desert a few more first lol

[@FaL4Fl]

We must minimize the population!

[@jamesw8723]

Lies you don't care about the kernels you care about furthering your galactic empire

[@railfano172]

Monster!

[@nickgamer1782]

Desert

[@Nathulhu]

Just put 2 kerbals on each planet and let them populate it, not your problem anymore

[@User-1294.]

you encountered the kraken, and you dont need struts if you enable autostrut in the games settings with "Advanced tweakables" right click a part and youll see an autostrut button if you take this advice. also make srue your center of aerodynamics is below your center of mass, thats why your rocket kept flying all over the place and was hard to control.

[@Egerit100]

U mean center of thrust?

[@durgun8247]

@@Egerit100Center of lift, CoT shouldn't affect stabilization

[@hand13932]

@@Egerit100 COT only applies force in the direction it’s facing, and because it’s evenly spaced, the COT isn’t a problem

[@Nae_Ayy]

It should be noted that the position of the CoL in relation to the CoM, while a good rule of thumb, doesn't always tell you if the ship will be stable. For instance, there could be a shit ton of drag coming from a fat fairing, which isn't calculated in the VAB.

[@PizzaBananaSplit]

Your like the person in a cavern saying "if you encounter ______ use this weapon" keep it up :D

[@derfvcderfvc7317]

Fun fact that is not water you landed in. Its actually hydrogen peroxide.

[@Catsrnice_]

WHAT A NEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRD

[@SunroseStudios]

psh, that's just water with a bit more oxygen bonded to it

[@beaclaster]

hooh......

[@tekbox7909]

@@SunroseStudios Oh great breathable water

[@scout360pyroz]

@@tekbox7909 depends on if you wish to take a second breath... Heck lets add some more oxygen to that H-O-O! How about H-O-O-O? H-O-O-O-O? With enough unstable oxygen bonds you wont even NEED to breathe in this stuff!

[@dennyrulos4847]

The wings on the bottom is what makes the final stage point prograde. Ditch the wings to keep pointy end up!

[@ReidCaptain]

Makes sense, thankfully it wasn't an issue but it easily could have been!

[@eekee6034]

With that engine, I have to ask, which pointy end do you mean? Just joking. :D

[@dennyrulos4847]

@@eekee6034 Hahahaha good point xD

[@bucketmann3443]

jajaja funny point

[@NFITC1]

Alternatively, you can point the wings "downward". It provides some control to a tail-end descent.

[@silvadyne00]

This is the kind of rocket I would build back in 2011 when the game only had a couple of parts. Really brings me back.

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

"That is, without a doubt, the worst rocket I have ever seen" "Ah, but it is a rocket!" -Pirates of the Kerbinbean

[@tnapeepeelu]

kerbin *bean*

[@henrywalker317]

The most creative joke I've ever heard in my entire life.

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

@@henrywalker317 Thank you, thank you

[@Psychotic.DoodleVR]

Honestly if I see someone hateing dart engines my face goes from this :) to this >:( Because dart engines are actually more powerful than normal rocket engines

[@carlsmith2641]

I garuntee he used lowered reentry heating no way he would’ve survived that aerobrake at eve and then the entry

[@goofmuffin]

alt title: harnessing pure spite to power a rocket

[@SephirothRyu]

I mean, I think that actually is a thing that works in Warhammer 40k.

[@acetyl3977]

aero-spite

[@gamingwithmatt9561]

Kerbal spite program

[@normalhuman9260]

The spite gets him out of bed in the mornings. I wake up just to spite his spite.

[@O5MO]

You can use Z and X buttons to throttle instantly to 100% and 0% instead of using Shift and Ctrl

[@ReidCaptain]

I use X a lot, but I throttle up slowly to keep things from getting out of control lol

[@dspenc3503]

@@ReidCaptain I believe that @Osmo was referring to when you first are launching. You spend about 5 seconds holding the shift button to get it to max throttle and then start your first engines. If you press "Z" once then you'll be able to save time launching. You also have radial decouplers and your boosters would start swaying around that point. You can put a strut between the booster and the rocket for better stability and the strut will break automatically once you stage the decouplers. Finally, do your gravity turns earlier! The closer your pitch is along your flight path, the more stable your rockets will be without needing to add fins or other aerodynamic assists that cause additional weight or drag. Generally if you are at about 45 degrees inclination and 10,000 meters then you'll have more wisely used your delta-v. G'luck!

[@ThatYoinkySploinky-kx5qc]

@@ReidCaptain intresting

[@kaankucuk4101]

@@ReidCaptain also click t at launch to start SAS

[@Mokridze]

The fact you reach Eve without a manoeuvre is so smooth

[@UnholyTerra]

Love the first set of boosters going like “alright seeya later cap’n” and flying up past you

[@hughjass1976]

"Thruster one, signing off"

[@jmstudios457]

this seems very much like a soviet style rocket where they just strapped shit together to get around the rail transport limits

[@NetralFN]

HEy I tHInk ItS A gOoD iDeA tO BRinG ApES To sPacE

[@HalNordmann]

Like the UR-700, which is probably the craziest rocket ever seriously thought about.

[@jmstudios457]

Chelomei's memoirs actually mentioned a UR-900, if you can imagine that. It had a nuclear second stage and meant to launch mars missions

[@HalNordmann]

@@jmstudios457 Right, the UR-900. Full of toxic chemicals that spontaneously ignite when mixed, bigger than the Saturn V, dropping empty tanks with remains of toxic fuel on own land, and has a nuclear upper stage that can get blown up by the rest of the rocket. What could go wrong?

[@jmstudios457]

Danger adds to the cool factor

[@eiteiei4063]

This madlad actually just aerobraked at Eve without heatshields Oh yeah and also just landed without one too of course. I mean definitely doable, as proven, but there are much much safer alternatives

[@brrrrrr]

He was born for this game

[@D4h]

tip: when doing a orbit or going to another planet you can right click in your orbit, click add maneuver, and drag the the arrows, this makes a prediction of you orbit, it show the amount of Delta V nescessary and the time you need to burn. another tip: when your rocket need wings, in the bottom left up there is 3 buttons, click the center of mass(after that it will apear a yellow ball) and then the aerodynamic), after that put the wings then it will apear a blue ball, make that ball be inside the yellow one. (sorry if english bad lmao)

[@jeffwilde6680]

The blue ball should be below the yellow ball, but yeah. The fins at the top certainly didn't help.

[@Tian2zi4huang2di4]

I swear to god this is the type of rocket where you throw random stuff together, a classic ksp rocket I love it

[@gamingwithmatt9561]

Oh what? It doesn't work? DOUBLE THE BOOSTERS!

[@NickyLunaLove]

Keep wings bellow the center of mass, it will be naturally stable that way

[@tytangameplay3118]

You can add manoeuvre nodes by clicking somewhere in your orbit and click add manoeuvre node, and u can make one instead of eyeing your burns

[@Crimsonedge1]

If you click on the little staging tab on the staging bar bottom right, it will extend out and tell you the TWR for the stage. As long as its better than 1, you'll be able to take off. You can also look at it relative to other bodies. Set the Dv calculator to Eve, design a ship able to take off from Eve with a TWR of greater than one relative to Eve's gravity and enough Dv to make it to Kerbin and then switch the Dv calculator back to Kerbin and then continue the build on to the next stage which should be a launch vehicle that has a TWR of greater than 1 relative to Kerbin's gravity and has enough Dv to get to Eve carrying the ship you just built. It'll save all the incremental tests where you're checking to see if it will get of the ground at each stage. You can get all the numbers required start to finish from the editor.

[@Nathulhu]

That is one big dangerous lawn dart you made there. I like it

[@jasonyan713]

Congrats on 100k subscribers! You totally deserve it!

[@ReidCaptain]

Thank you so much!

[@therealusman]

he totally deserves it for confusing me every time i watch his videos

[@lemons8827]

you are honestly one of the most fun youtubers to watch

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

I like the way you build. Your solution to every problem is more boosters and I feel like that perfectly represents what KSP is all about

[@mighty_pk9904]

I'm loving the kerbal videos man, keep it up

[@deanbloxgaming8792]

Reid:haha rocket go brrrr Kerbals:Reid why did you leave me :( Also Reid:haha rocket go brrrr again

[@watereater530]

This makes me cry

[@zenongalvan9769]

Same

[@EmbeddedWithin]

*dirhag*

[@matheushcdias]

On the vehicle assembly building, you can click on a stage with an engine and it will show you the TWR of that stage. TWR is Thrust To Weight, if it's 1.0, it means your rocket won't accelerate nor decelerate when you're in kerbin. If it's above 1.0, it will accelerate, and if it's below 1.0, it will not gain speed. Of course, Weight depends on gravity. The ideal TWR for each stage is usually 1.5 for the lift off stage, 1.0 for orbiting stage and 0.5 for maneuvers in space. Also keep in mind, since weight is relative to gravity, your TWR will change for each planet or moon you're at. Besides that, great video though, you got my sub c:

[@matheushcdias]

Oh also, you can change the planet/moon that this twr menu references from on a little UI piece that emerges from a wrench icon (i think) on the lower right part of the screen. You can change altitude, atmosphere density and the planet/moon of choice that the TWR and Delta/v graphs will reference from

[@jamesw8723]

Wow incredible gives me strength to go to the gym or something

[@ReidCaptain]

It's almost as if I'm 3 feet away from you

[@jamesw8723]

@@ReidCaptain please play that space game with the little aliens

[@animationspace8550]

@@jamesw8723 Spaceflight simulator?

[@LocalSinkPisser]

@@animationspace8550 Uhhh you know that has no little aliens

[@person___9]

@@LocalSinkPisseryes it does wdym

[@TheTrueMr.Chicken]

This was the video that sparked my interest in Kerbal Space Program, thanks Reid!

[@NPC-1776]

Quick tip for future rockets: rockets act like darts, you put the fins on the bottem for stabilizing, it makes them fly straight and you only need them for the first stages when the atmosphere is thiccer. Fins near the top cause a rocket to be unstable and usually makes it nose over

[@drummertomato7428]

In the VAB, you can click the staging bits (blue) to see the DV and TWR of that stage, you don’t need to put them on a launch pad to test it

[@FaL4Fl]

It's amazing how much more skilled than RCE you are in this game. Not saying i don'd enjoy RCEs content cuz I do.

[@stealthhydrac8516]

snake? engines at top? hmmmm xD

[@leirdierdorff2195]

If you want skill, then watch Matt Lowne or Strazenblitz 75

[@thatguybrody4819]

SWDennis is pretty good.

[@DarkTheFailure]

@@leirdierdorff2195 Bradley whistance too

[@farbenfrohesgrau4056]

@@leirdierdorff2195 Matt lowne ist actually that skilled, but he includes memes, and hwiskey reviews , so still great to whatch

[@Chaos8282]

I've always been fond of the dart engine myself. Good TWR for low gravity and efficient.

[@vanderkarl3927]

As amazing as hyper-engineered record-breaking ksp shenanigans are, other times like these it's nice to see something so old-fashionedly KERBAL!

[@Dinonuggets4242]

You could have saved a lot of fuel by finalizing your eve approach and getting it to 80km while in orbit of the sun, and not super close to eve like you did. It could have potentially cost you almost no fuel :)

[@sapphicjade6375]

going that deep into Eve's atmosphere at interplanetary speeds would have vaporized his ship

[@LLDJ_]

The ksp vids are so good

[@silverfox8615]

You have exactly captured the feature creep that defined the space shuttle.

[@aplleman309]

i love it when he changes stages near the beginning.

[@kn4ughty]

Why dont you use manoeuvres when doing ejection burns, circularisation burns and adjustment burns. It just seems a bit strange. Also, dart engines are quite good for landing on atmospheric planets as they are maximally efficient at all levels in an atmosphere, so good choice.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Manoeuvres are great for playing efficiently, but if "having enough fuel to come back" isn't the biggest concern, then "winging it" ought not to be the worst thing. Still, not MN-ing an interplanetary transfer is serious pre-0.18 old school vibe.

[@Notllamalord]

Alternative title: using the entire gdp of Uruguay and pure spite to reach eve

[@canadianrocketman3475]

what makes this even better is that he casually doesn't use any maneuver nodes at all and just eyeballs everything.

[@oliverwright9403]

You can use seperatrons to stop boosters from destroying the rocket and you should use RCS or SAS (electric) modules for stable turning of the aircraft. Wings/Control surfaces are useful but only help so much.

[@AlvinBalvin321]

i know pretty much nothing about this game, and this is probably not possible, but what if u made a helicopter... a helicopter rocket... it... uses helicopter wings and flyes up

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

Wont gain too much speed so it'd act more like an air-launched rocket. Still useful, this would save a lot of Delta V

[@error-mo7dy]

some people already made stuff like that but its insanely hard to get it working properly

[@mrwomanstealer]

@@sebastiaomendonca1477 step 1: fly onto upper atmosphere. Step 2: activate engine, ditch the wings/idk. Step 3. Now u are in orbit with ur main 1st stage

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

@@mrwomanstealer Alternatively you can add a small, cheap first stage that'll get you a similar kick up to altitude

[@agentminty5503]

Just watching this while I wait for an hour so I can circularize around Duna, can't wait for KSP 2

[@FrikInCasualMode]

It is a video of the "By the Kraken! I will make it fly, even if i have to break reality to do it!" kind. And now you have a Blunderbirds scenario :P

[@salute4392]

"just strap more boosters" Astrophysics!

[@siral2000]

Fins offer almost no control if placed near the center of mass. Placing them near the top can cause drag when they are tilted or you go to far off prograde potentially making the craft flip over. The reason they are normally placed on the bottom is that when unused and you go off prograde the drag from them automatically tries to push the bottom back so the craft is facing prograde.

[@jakelake8113]

I'm definitely enjoying the amount of sass over the engines.

[@gabrielfuhr5964]

you can use the < and > keys to change the timewarp scale

[@opacocastilla8238]

I barely got to the Muño with a week of trying an failing, and this guy gets to eve just using dart engines.

[@TotallyTaRz]

The Dart Engine is the Best Engine. Built the perfect rocket using it on accident and haven’t stopped using it since

[@samtarnovsky2318]

If your rocket is trying to flip, don't add more fins to the top, add them to the bottom, if your rocket needs to land in an atmosphere you can use parachutes at the top or air brakes at the top and that will stop it from flipping during landing

[@chro.]

Dart, Dart, Dart. (This will negate the hater’s)

[@chro.]

Thanks for a pin Reid Captain

[@thunderbuttocks28]

DART ON THE HATERS

[@chro.]

@@thunderbuttocks28 lol

[@ovo5037]

dart dart dart dart!

[@CyanZone69]

coolest rocket!! And the best one

[@genericnameuwu8339]

Ask your viewers to make a rocket and use the most popular one no matter how “good” the design is

[@javac08642]

Great job sir

[@dbneptune]

Btw, you can press Z to instantly go to max throttle and X to instantly cut the engines.

[@Sillybug_]

Alternative title: trying to make the most futuristic rocket ever built

[@mideargamer1513]

Video: Reid Captain's Video: SPEEEEED

[@tsm688]

using literally only the best eve engine for eve damn, you set yourself a hard challenge captain

[@SuperDutchrutter]

I love how kerbal adventures demand serious commitment sometimes. -45 min aero break maneuvering, 2.5km swim etc. So worth it for that flag plant tho 👌

[@gamingwithmatt9561]

The flag plant is always worth it

[@mistamysta1983]

how can this man sound so much like a professional

[@GamingMaus123]

Tell this man about maneuver nodes

[@NotFr3sa]

The dart engine is actually really good i think. It has a lot of delta v

[@scottie_2024]

Yeah we can knock on the tips someone this adept at KSP should know, but at the same time.....dude flew into interplanetary space with no maneuver nodes and went almost straight to Eve. Kudos, man.

[@gamingwithmatt9561]

Kerbal safe program

[@bobi_lopataru]

You should check out the sparkplug mod for Besiege, you can make somewhat realistic engines and I'm sure you can make some smart and cool stuff! For example try to power a plane with it

[@chromite_chromite]

KSP: "Use proper engines to go to Eve!" Reid Captain: haha dart engines go *shhhhhh*

[@justleo5997]

I like the engine choice for the first stage, not sure about the others

[@lachlanlau]

Releasing the stages looks like an airshow

[@NightBeWheat]

finally, another dart enjoyer

[@dodleboper]

your the only person I know who calls them the dart instead of the arospike

[@daviduprichard8343]

Space is so fascinating

[@krzysztof-ws9og]

imagine placing fins on the top of the rocket to stabilize it and placing fins on the bottom of the lander when in atmosphere fins try to go in retrograde directions, and fins are useless outside of atmosphere

[@homerocketscience1874]

When he was testing the stages it looked like red alert all over again.

[@jmejuniper]

Take that! Dart is a really good engine! Sure dawn is the best, but meh too slow

[@farbenfrohesgrau4056]

On eve, dart is almost twice as efficient as the Vektor engine

[@jmejuniper]

@@farbenfrohesgrau4056 huh interesting

[@danieleveritt4086]

I think you should try strand a kerbal on every landable celestial body in the kerbol system untill youv learnt enough to rescue them all in one mission..... Or recruit the blunderbirds

[@Yogasefski]

Troll: YoU cAn’T uSe DaRt EnGiNeS oN tHe LaSt StAgE. Reid: HAHA! Dart engines go WWOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!

[@Mohelish]

Yesss more KSP!

[@Penaltypalmer]

You're a god you use NO manover nodes and you got to eve

[@araflohd]

My guy , have you *ever* heard of RCS? try to use these instead of stability modules. Way better

[@kmsthanks]

But you usually don't have much of it

[@mags247]

And electricity does not have weight

[@pascal4775]

Ich vermisse die araflo zeiten😐

[@sham9720]

your such a troll. i love it

[@tenaibms]

I'm sure you know this by now, but you should enable the center of drag overlay, it's the button with the wing on it near the bottom left. If you have center of mass above center of drag, your rocket should control pretty easily :)

[@nemesis666first]

You should learn the asparagus system, because you are always struggling with your lift off sequence xD . And, put more single straw of metal to avoid the octopus effect xD .

[@theepic1338]

as an entire noob in this game, i concluded that u are a pro

[@minecracktyler]

Classic kerbal logic I see, when in doubt, *boosters*

[@TheTMan001]

Reid Captain is the happy medium on the skill level scale in this game between RCE (bottom-ish) and Matt Lowne (top-ish)

[@Diamond_Reptiles]

let's just look at the fact that he attempted to kill his kerbal by removing her helmet

[@RAFMnBgaming]

The fact that the game doesn't let you do that shows great foresight on the devs' part.

[@technikchaot]

yeah your stage with the number two (I would call it third) has a poor twr, but thats the stage that you use for completing your orbit around kerbin and to travel to eve, and propably even party do the landingburns (exept you only want to break in the atmosphere).

[@technikchaot]

this comment above is meant for 5:30 or so.

[@fishrsa9046]

man, i miss this game

[@owlboy1827]

In the end, the Kraken always wins

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

You should try build an SSTO for the next video. Bonus points if you get it to Minmus and back

[@ReidCaptain]

Good idea!

[@pokakoka69]

This video simply felt like dart slander

[@CelestialityRW]

this reminds me of the alpha stages of KSP for some reason

[@EmbeddedWithin]

nosaer emos rof PSK fo segats ahpla eth fo em sdnimer sith

[@Splinter-ge9pf]

because he doesn't use anything like manouver nodes or keybinds

[@finnyjam8252]

Remember to put the Center of lift behind the Center of mass

[@LightSpeedFury01YT]

People: Nooo you can't use dart engines for final stage nooooooooo RC: and so I took that personally

[@driveahead8000]

This guy deserves atleast 3 million subs

[@TSK_Silver]

I can't even leave the planet

[@farbenfrohesgrau4056]

Add moar boosters, and trust in trust.

[@apoapsisrocketsupplies1063]

Challenge: solid rockets only

[@DarkTheFailure]

Use autostrut to make the rocket less jiggly. Go into settings and turn on advanced tweakables and you can then autostrut

[@no951]

when watching this youtube attempted to advertise to me lockheed martin vtol jets

[@huntabadday2663]

You are more than insane

[@itzsnowie7436]

Your voice makes my day