I've seen a lot in this game, but an unguided gravity assist into an interplanetary transfer is a first. Every video of yours is really a surprise. Well done!
Me before watching video: this is stupid you're in the atmosphere when you run out of fuel how can you orbit Me after finishing video: You got to Duna with no manual control?
I always assumed it was useless to try building smaller orbital rockets at this point after the 1 ton ship Of course there would be only one man to beat the record The man who set it in the first place
Reminds me of a V2 rocket I made that requires no input aside from the initial launch. It launches from the Island Runway and hits in the middle of the KSC
Very nice idea of no probe core, I assume you had to perform some aerodynamic magic tricks to make it go through the atmosphere so well without a nose cone on top?
I'm guessing that the two nosecones on the bottom are attached to the front and the engine, then offset and rotated, so with no free node black aerodynamic magic leaves the craft with next to no drag
estimating that one kerbal year is one fourth of one Earth year, and a Kerbal can live up to 200 Earth years due to their size, someone waited an eighth of their life to see a single candy bar burn up above them...
I know that KSP is not exactly realistic, but it is absurd to me that Bill can get to orbit with something half the weight of a compact car. I love these missions. EDIT: In my rush to be first, I was horribly wrong. Bill did something even more impressive, without even being on the rocket.
Planning? Is there anything to plan? Just build you rocket from the top and separate stages anytime. When making interplanetary burns I have a stage that starts the burn, another one to continue and another one to finish it
Spinning square I’m bad at Ksp and I over engineer my rockets so they could go way farther than intended infect on my first mission I missed the mun and instead I went to eve and landed well kind landed the mun lander did not survive but the kerbals did
Spinning square I mean I over do it to the point it’s to easy to fly what I mean by that is the Rocket is huge I mean massive even though you really need a rocket tenth that size to do the mission with ease
I've seen a lot of ridiculous things in Kerbal Space Program. Giant Metal Robots. SSTOS with hundreds of passengers. Stock Propeller Planes. And every manner of minimalist craft. But this thing... An interplanetary, half-ton, completely uncontrolled probe... I have no words. I think you won Kerbal Space Program, Whistance.
While it managed to get to Duna, I'm not sure it's actually capable of achieving a Kerbin orbit. Yes it raised it's apoapsis but it would be very tricky to raise the periapsis with one stage and no controls.
@@Barnaclebeard Could you use a gravity assist to get to a "stable" orbit around the original body (at least until the next accidental rendezvous with the assisting body) or get directly captured into a new orbit?
@@Barnaclebeard You should be able to do it if you can program a thrust program. If you just lower your thrust over time you will gravity turn into a circularizing burn. If this counts as "no control" is a different matter.
Lucas T you could time a lunar gravity assist to get into one, albeit a rather unstable orbit as the mun will fling you out again, maybe it is possible to get some kind of orbital resonance that avoids the moon
Me: Okay launching an uncontrolled rocket to space and reach orbit doesn't seem that hard...just get the angle right and hit spacebar. Brad: *Reached Duna* Me: OMG WTF HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
"Okay launching an uncontrolled rocket to space and reach orbit doesn't seem that hard" The problem is that your periapsis stays the same (i.e. launch pad) if you can’t thrust at apoapsis. So generally you need to light the engines at least a second time at apoapsis to raise your periapsis. That’s also why a purely cannon based launch to orbit can’t work.
@@Mike-oz4cv the thing is that it isn't a cannon, the engine is constantly burning and the rocket is tilting over while doing a passive gravity assist :P
@Kenn Honson X -- It is a little much for an SSD, but it's at the high end of SD cards: www.computerworld.com/article/3077284/samsung-now-producing-worlds-smallest-512gb-ssd-its-half-the-weight-of-a-dime.html
Everyone else has already said how impressive your planning and piloting is, but do you know that planet pack "Before Kerbin?" According to it, Kerbals are still puttering around their home system a few billion years after they first achieved spaceflight. I used to think that was unrealistic, but after the planet put all space missions on hold for ~150 years to watch an unguided Duna impactor, I'm starting to find it a little more believable. They really are patient.
Meanwhile, at the Agent008 Space Program propaganda offices: SSTO Prototype Mk V is a great success! It demonstrated not only that it could enter orbit, but also that it could re-enter and land backwards! All rumors of flight instability are unsubstantiated. All rumors of loss of craft upon backwards landing are unsubstantiated. For proof of the fantastic success of this mission, we recovered our healthy pilot and one of the two engines.
Meanwhile, at ACR Aerospace AB The HV-10 Sarqual SSTO has been a great success! It demonstrated not only that it could enter orbit, but release payload capable of interplanetary travel. The testing payload flew over to Minmus before going back to the SSTO and docking. It demonstrated that it could withstand the immense forces of re-entry, but also be controllable. Any rumors of 'landing gear failure' are baseless arguments against our innovation. We even recovered 14 bolts and 4 bodies.
This is incredible. Brad a quick question. Will you make more educational videos like advanced orbital mechanics(for example aero dynamic tricks video or a video on the k-e-k-e-j route ). I am quite new to this game and want to expand my horizons above the simple stuff(cuz im kinda a perfectionist).
Holy hell, it's been so many years since I watched one of these, and now it pops up in my notifications. Oh the memories. Hope you're doing well, Bradley.
I've seen a lot in this game, but an unguided gravity assist into an interplanetary transfer is a first.
Every video of yours is really a surprise. Well done!
Love your vids.
I mean, I absolutely love Bradley’s vids as well, but I love your vids. Just wanted to say that.
so was the fact you made a monolithic station around kerbin made from a jumple of random crafts good looking
I’d like to give you a like but you have 420
I mean, you made a 0.5 kg Interstellar 'vehicle', if aimed at the correct trajectory, you could deliver that payload to Duna in mere minutes
It makes me think of Buster Keaton, in space.
Bradley in 2015: No electrics
Bradley in 2020: No control
Bradley in 2025: no fuel
Bradley in 2030: no rocket
Bradley in 2050: no.
Bradley in 2070:
Brad in 3000: 0kg, -1part SSTA carrying 10 billion kerbals
"By the way, the 'snack' in 'snack delivery rocket' is singular. We have a maximum cargo mass of one candy bar, so pick yours carefully."
Fine.
I choose this ten pound choclate bar. 😋
A very large ziplock bag of only red starbursts. Whoever messes up and leaves one of the wrong color in gets fired
@@acoolerhandle *yellow
Ze Great Pumpkinani *pink
Savages.
Saving weight by removing nonessential components such as the probe core. Why didn't anyone else think of that before?!?
Because the probe core is essential to everyone except Brad.
Me before watching video: this is stupid you're in the atmosphere when you run out of fuel how can you orbit
Me after finishing video: You got to Duna with no manual control?
Next episode: fuel filled traffic cone to orbit
Also, 0:24 Jeb/Val/Bob be like: _I do exist you know_ ;_;
Using an autocross-based mass driver
i think once i saw a comment on an older video saying "bruh next time it's just gonna be a bucket with a spark engine on it" and well,
yeah
Next Episode: 3kg SSTO Powered only by Bill’s willpower
It's just a single snack in s box, and Bill *really* wants his snack.
156kg here : ua-cam.com/video/jzCX80A3eak/v-deo.html
I've always assumed that kerbals have some form of time control, which would explain thier FTL comms and the ability to revert unfavorable timelines.
Also explains timewarp very well.
These just keep getting better and better!
This man just sent a liquid fuel firework to another freaking planet. The patience alone is worth an award.
Can't imagine how long you spent fine tuning the rocket!
Next video I swear He’s gonna go to the mun with the Eva pack and 3 bean burritos
Bean burritos to orbit?
Next episode: I filled a water bottle with gasoline and made it to tylo and back
Cola & mentos to Minmus, make an ice cream float!
I always assumed it was useless to try building smaller orbital rockets at this point after the 1 ton ship
Of course there would be only one man to beat the record
The man who set it in the first place
>orbital
It never orbited anything...
Wait, actually, it orbited the fucking sun.
@@archdornan4389 yep a solar orbit is still an orbit
You aimed a spacecraft so precisely that you hit Duna without any control.
I have no words.
Did y'all notice that he used the old "spark" engine? because I did and it gave me KSP nostalgia.
Whoa Brad should be a author, that foreshadowing!
Reminds me of a V2 rocket I made that requires no input aside from the initial launch. It launches from the Island Runway and hits in the middle of the KSC
Next video: kerbal jetpack to minmus and back
Because of you, I had a dream of being on Mars with just a pink lawn chair and an empty fridge for 300 days.
love the text and classical music format!
Very nice idea of no probe core, I assume you had to perform some aerodynamic magic tricks to make it go through the atmosphere so well without a nose cone on top?
I'm guessing that the two nosecones on the bottom are attached to the front and the engine, then offset and rotated, so with no free node black aerodynamic magic leaves the craft with next to no drag
This is beyond mindblowing
the one dislike is from kAI doing its best to hit the like button
Dammit Brad you've done it again
Other players: My probe core exploded!
Brad: Oh no. Anyway-
I was not expecting that.
estimating that one kerbal year is one fourth of one Earth year, and a Kerbal can live up to 200 Earth years due to their size, someone waited an eighth of their life to see a single candy bar burn up above them...
Return of the King
"After a mere century and a half" had me dieing of laughter
Bradley please - the game can only take so much
Bill's Odessey is finally back! And such an exciting video at that!
Also no one gonna mention 4:57
Highest speed achieved: 291,000 m/s
This craft has a bizarre shape.
ITS BACK
Nasa trying to send the Iris probe to mark watney (2037 kerbalized)
yay we have another 1
I know that KSP is not exactly realistic, but it is absurd to me that Bill can get to orbit with something half the weight of a compact car. I love these missions.
EDIT: In my rush to be first, I was horribly wrong. Bill did something even more impressive, without even being on the rocket.
Bill wasn't on this..
You recreated Elon musks car launch to mars with a craft that weighs less then a car :Y
Here I’m planing a mun mission for hours and you make this tiny rocket that can go to duna and your not even driving it
Planning? Is there anything to plan? Just build you rocket from the top and separate stages anytime. When making interplanetary burns I have a stage that starts the burn, another one to continue and another one to finish it
Spinning square I’m bad at Ksp and I over engineer my rockets so they could go way farther than intended infect on my first mission I missed the mun and instead I went to eve and landed well kind landed the mun lander did not survive but the kerbals did
@@cosmic5386 when you think you over engineer it you actually make it worse
Spinning square I mean I over do it to the point it’s to easy to fly what I mean by that is the Rocket is huge I mean massive even though you really need a rocket tenth that size to do the mission with ease
NO NO NO
Bradley... HOW?
You know these amateur rocket contests? Imagine if a contestant launches his and it impacts the fucking mars
Wait, but that wasn't an SSTO.. You didn't orbit anything. I call shenanigans.
That was nothing more than an interplanetary ballistic missile.
Exactly my point
He orbited the sun
Meanwhile I still don’t know how to go to the moon in KSP
This SSTO weighs less than most cars... wow
Kerbal Warfare begins!
sooo happy
You should try to make minimalist mission in real solar system
What happened to poor Robotug
I love the reverse clickbait
pointy end up + flamey end up?
_a mere century and a half_
1 minute!!!
What next 1 kg to Jool?
Next up:
250kg SSTO to the Jool 5
how the heck
holy shit
you have officially launched a unguided missile into Duna; how do you feel?
Download North Kerbin Dynamics and Nuke Duna!
I've seen a lot of ridiculous things in Kerbal Space Program.
Giant Metal Robots.
SSTOS with hundreds of passengers.
Stock Propeller Planes.
And every manner of minimalist craft.
But this thing...
An interplanetary, half-ton, completely uncontrolled probe...
I have no words. I think you won Kerbal Space Program, Whistance.
It wasn't a probe, it was an unguided (interplanetary) missile
@@robinsuj *G.W bushes eyes light up* "Are there insurgents on this 'duna'?"
@@ticklemesenpai447 and you hit them after 150 years 😂😂
“Mission control, we desperately need a resupply of snacks here on Duna.”
“10-4 Duna Command, expect resupply to arrive in approximately 150 years.”
"why is there only one snack?"
"wait you asked for ploural?"
modern luxuries!
10-4? Are they talking over CB radio?
@@comicsansgreenkirby nah it's a walkie talkie toy they got at goodwill
This is basically an orbit capable hobby rocket. Except it actually has less controllability than modern hobby rockets.
While it managed to get to Duna, I'm not sure it's actually capable of achieving a Kerbin orbit. Yes it raised it's apoapsis but it would be very tricky to raise the periapsis with one stage and no controls.
@@Barnaclebeard Could you use a gravity assist to get to a "stable" orbit around the original body (at least until the next accidental rendezvous with the assisting body) or get directly captured into a new orbit?
@@Barnaclebeard You should be able to do it if you can program a thrust program. If you just lower your thrust over time you will gravity turn into a circularizing burn. If this counts as "no control" is a different matter.
Lucas T you could time a lunar gravity assist to get into one, albeit a rather unstable orbit as the mun will fling you out again, maybe it is possible to get some kind of orbital resonance that avoids the moon
@@iain3713 That would work, too, but requires much more dv.
Me: Okay launching an uncontrolled rocket to space and reach orbit doesn't seem that hard...just get the angle right and hit spacebar.
Brad: *Reached Duna*
Me: OMG WTF HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
"Okay launching an uncontrolled rocket to space and reach orbit doesn't seem that hard" The problem is that your periapsis stays the same (i.e. launch pad) if you can’t thrust at apoapsis. So generally you need to light the engines at least a second time at apoapsis to raise your periapsis. That’s also why a purely cannon based launch to orbit can’t work.
@@Mike-oz4cv the thing is that it isn't a cannon, the engine is constantly burning and the rocket is tilting over while doing a passive gravity assist :P
@@Mike-oz4cv Also, here is Scott Manley in 2017 doing an uncontrolled launch into orbit
ua-cam.com/video/m-aayo7wgpo/v-deo.html
T minus fifteen seconds, guidance is nonexistent...
good one 😂
Next Episode: "SSTO that weighs less than I do"
There are two ways to achieve that
@@k.k.9378 ROFLMAO
I mean, there are people heavier than this one.
@@KarolOfGutovo r/murderedbywords
@@quantumx9729 no
"After a mere century and a half"
I mean, considering the feat, it stops been ironic
Wdym thats a short time
Inverse clickbait, says ssto but goes to Duna
Does that make this a 500kg SSD?
@Kenn Honson X -- a 500kg SD card using 512GB per gram would be 256PB (petabytes). That's enough to hold one millionth of the entire internet.
@Kenn Honson X -- It is a little much for an SSD, but it's at the high end of SD cards: www.computerworld.com/article/3077284/samsung-now-producing-worlds-smallest-512gb-ssd-its-half-the-weight-of-a-dime.html
Everyone else has already said how impressive your planning and piloting is, but do you know that planet pack "Before Kerbin?" According to it, Kerbals are still puttering around their home system a few billion years after they first achieved spaceflight. I used to think that was unrealistic, but after the planet put all space missions on hold for ~150 years to watch an unguided Duna impactor, I'm starting to find it a little more believable. They really are patient.
He just threw a very refined rock very hard at Duna.
Why make an Artifical Super Intelligence when we already have something a billion times smarter than all humanity
Next: Farting to the next galaxy
! DUNA HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED BY POPCORN !
What have you done?! Now that the world knows no kerman or machine is necessary for interplanetary travel, you've put bill and robotug out of the job!
Meanwhile, at the Agent008 Space Program propaganda offices:
SSTO Prototype Mk V is a great success! It demonstrated not only that it could enter orbit, but also that it could re-enter and land backwards! All rumors of flight instability are unsubstantiated. All rumors of loss of craft upon backwards landing are unsubstantiated. For proof of the fantastic success of this mission, we recovered our healthy pilot and one of the two engines.
Meanwhile, at ACR Aerospace AB
The HV-10 Sarqual SSTO has been a great success! It demonstrated not only that it could enter orbit, but release payload capable of interplanetary travel. The testing payload flew over to Minmus before going back to the SSTO and docking. It demonstrated that it could withstand the immense forces of re-entry, but also be controllable. Any rumors of 'landing gear failure' are baseless arguments against our innovation. We even recovered 14 bolts and 4 bodies.
"This can't reach orbit, his fuel ran out and he's still in the atmosph...
...mother of God"
In the next episode: fuel tank with small hole in the bottom to Duna and back.
I got here faster than bill's snacks ran out!
Im just waiting for a trebuchet to orbit build now
At a certain pont it has to not be able to be lighter
take loads of fuel tanks and fill them with helium, or use hydrogen and compress it into fuel just before burning
Brad uh,
Finds a way
Bravery is not a function of firepower.
How. Even the lightest engines in sfs are half a ton
How far can you go with one (1) command pod? It should have infinite range because of the EVA pack...
This is incredible. Brad a quick question. Will you make more educational videos like advanced orbital mechanics(for example aero dynamic tricks video or a video on the k-e-k-e-j route ). I am quite new to this game and want to expand my horizons above the simple stuff(cuz im kinda a perfectionist).
Yo idk if you knew or not but there is a curb meme in this playlist, just wanted to give a heads up :)
Omg.
If you dont stop you will make a accopled ant engine on bill!!!
Remember: any landing that you walk away from (because you never got on in the first place and wisely stayed at home instead) is a good one.
Music: Rhapsody No 2 In G Minor (Remastered) - John De'Bey
Next episode: 0.3kg manned flight to all Jool's moons and back
Nah. This is not really possible. Engines weigh more. How many fuel would you get anyways? You could exploit eva pack but a cockpit is >0.3
@@spinningsquare1325 I mean, as long as we are killing the joke, I'm pretty sure the _kerbals_ weigh more than 0.3 kg.
@@coffeecup1196 yeah(
Id love to see a mission featuring both kAI and robotug ;)
It just gets crazier and crazier. Wow I am impressed!
"Shooting Pluto from Earth"
Nobody:
Rocket without any control
Brad:
I shall honor your request
Unbelievable. More than unbelievable.
Wow I haven't been this early since I had a bunch of caffeine and woke up at like 1 am
I laughed so much
"Lithosphere" nice
wha... why?
finnaly an new episode, been waiting for 3 months. i think u wil get about 1M views by the end of 2021
maybe i made a big estimate, i think 200K now
@@Nicolas_Gamer5476 ...
Holy hell, it's been so many years since I watched one of these, and now it pops up in my notifications. Oh the memories. Hope you're doing well, Bradley.
You are truly the Bob Ross of KSP
baking soda and vinegar to eve