Hi you awesome people! Sorry it has been so long between uploads. Life gets busy sometimes I'm afraid. I hope you enjoy this explanation of how gravity assists work in real life. Jupiter is a crazy beast allowing one single gravity assist to kick a vessel to the outer solar system and beyond. Enjoy this mini grand tour of our solar system today using just one Falcon 9. What should we do next guys!?
I managed to record a landing of kaaba on north pole of The Moon in my UA-cam account. And I planned another kaaba landed on Venus or Mars. Perhaps you should land a landmark worthy for kerbals/humanity as kaaba for muslims' praying direction on surface of other bodies.
How about doing a gravity assist(s) to do a absolute speed run by the sun (without exploding) in RO using current rocket technology available today. Recreate NASA's Helios missions possibly?
Challenge : Launch 100 cube sats Using falcon heavy. Requirements IT has to use Block 5 It has to be done with Realism overhaul and RSS It has to recover all 3 cores IT has to be awesome 😉
So today we had sunshine, a Royal Wedding, Man Utd. getting beaten in the FA Cup Final... really says I to myself, can this day get any better? And then I discover Marcus House has posted a new video, and realise it can! Great video as usual there mate, you did a great job, WAY better than that Nessus fellow (but don't tell him I said so!). Actually his videos are just so-so, yours are much better! 😀 Joking aside, I really enjoyed this, but I still have no idea how you manage to spot these planetary alignments to pull these gravity assists off. I can just about manage to use one to get myself from Minmus to Kerbin, using the Mun to throw me into Kerbin's atmosphere when I've miscalculated how much Dv I needed to get home.
Amazing video yet again. I love the spacex stuff. You should do a video on re-entry heating. Testing how fast something can slice through the atmosphere without being destroyed and creating a vehicle with the best re-entry heating.
I think the "problem" with these Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy videos is that I have a hard time believing that SpaceX would ever consider putting a cryogenic upper stage inside the payload fairing. They wouldn't want to use an existing engine like the RL-10 for publicity reasons, and also in real life it isn't as simple as slapping an engine on to a procedural tank. Even if they were ok with using an existing engine, they'd probably have to use Centaur, but that wouldn't work because Centaur is 12.68 meters long, and the Falcon payload fairing is 13 meters long, leaving basically no room for a hypergolic (or solid) 4th stage like the one in this video, let alone an actual spacecraft. SpaceX would have to develop their own cryogenic upper stage for something like this, but I think they'd rather wait for BFR for deep-space launches. That being said, I love these videos.
well done. next challange: send landers to all the big moons of saturn, uranus, neptune, and 2 landers to pluto and charon with the BFR, on the fastest routes and in the most efficient courses possible in term of deltaV spending.
Loving the RO videos! I feel like you'd make really good past mission replica videos. Missons like new horizons, the voyagers, inner rocky planet missions etc etc
This is awesome, the only thing that could make this video better would be if you managed to fly by Triton at the end of the journey, but otherwise it's great
Nice work Marcus! It's very very educational! Can you explain us how to calculate a launch to rendezvous? I hate correct inclinations before I get the orbit...
Best way to get the correct inclination (generally matching that of the moon) at launch is to place a small sat at about 200km that is perfectly matched to the Moons inclination. You can then use that vessel as your target (which is also much easier to align in the map view) and with Kerbal Engineer. Then wait until the relative inclination is almost zero (sometimes need to pick alternate launch sites depending on the time of year). I kind of show this very briefly at the start of this video. To pick the correct launch window to transfer to another body (Jupiter etc) use Transfer Window Planner (it is great).
I always think of the New Horizons probe that was launched on an Atlas V 551 which has less payload than an expendable Falcon but a bit more than a reusable one and that was launched directly into a solar escape trajectory at 16.2 km/s. It did get a gravity assist from Jupiter that says it saved 3 years on the trip past Pluto.
You can't scale payload to LEO with payload to interplanetary that's not how it works. The payload drop off is unique with every rocket and it drops much steeper on Falcon than Atlas. Especially 551. It's actually overtakes Falcon in payload capacity to interplanetary and so do most rockets with high energy upper stages such as Centaur. Poor Falcon stage 2 can't keep up with efficient hydrogen powered stages.
Hey Marcus. Is it possible for you to share your gamedata folder/any folder needed to get the game just like yours? Getting mods to work is a pain. This would help me put greatly if possible
Hey Marcus! I was wondering how u record your videos. Do you record the game first and then record your voice over it or record and talk at the same time as the game? And if you do record your voice after the game recording, what program do u use to add your voice to the video? Thx and great video!
How much payload or how fast could you go to the Neptune or Uranus? How much more payload or faster could one complete it with fully fueled falcon 9 from LEO. (Meaning if one launched a falcon 9 into LEO, then docked another rocket to top it off ala' BFR ?)
In many cases I am speeding up footage to make it play faster, this makes it seem super smooth but is a lot of the time playing at 2x speed or faster. I do have a pretty sweet PC though :)
I'd recommend Transfer Window Planner to allow you to easily pick the launch windows. Doing a grand tour like this is a bit more tricky but you essentially want several planets leading each other by about 30 degrees so you can skip from one to another just using gravity assists.
There is a transfer window option on MJ2 and Maneuver Node thingy can place maneuver nodes for some operation (changing plane or Ap/Pe, Hohmann, etc.) so I'm pretty sure it can help you.
You can reduce your solar orbit velocity by doing the gravity assist on the opposite side of the planet (so you exit the sphere of influence from the planet in a retrograde direction).
Fair comment, although with the size of their fairing I would imagine there would be space for a small 3rd stage with a small payload, or even have a large enough payload to be able to take say a rover with a lander, or like I think they should, send out a couple of smaller video capable sats so that instead of just having to rely on telemetry they could actually watch the landings :~)
Is it useful to use gravity assists to get into a retrograde orbit? How about a Kerbal simulation episode to visit this potential interstellar asteroid? www.iflscience.com/space/an-interstellar-asteroid-has-been-found-hiding-inside-our-solar-system-and-we-could-visit-it/
Amazing as always (even without a booster landing haha) ! Anyway this BFR mod seems good for a mission reconstruction :) forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/173915-bfr-by-alcentar-v12/
Yup, all the RSS mods really only work well currently using 1.2.2. The game hasn't really changed all that much since then in any significant way so it's all good. I don't know if we are likely to see full support with all these mods with 1.4.* any time in the near future.
Pluto has only completed just over 1/3 of an orbit around the sun since it was discovered. Google says it was discovered in 1930 and it's orbital period is 248 years.
Challenge:Launch A Mars Rover Using Falcon 9 Requiermemts: It Has To Be Block 4 You Need To Use The Delay Mod You Need To Land Propulsively On Mars You Need To Land Manually The Booster (You can use KOS if you want) IT BETTER GO TO ELON MUSK!!!!
Hi you awesome people! Sorry it has been so long between uploads. Life gets busy sometimes I'm afraid. I hope you enjoy this explanation of how gravity assists work in real life. Jupiter is a crazy beast allowing one single gravity assist to kick a vessel to the outer solar system and beyond. Enjoy this mini grand tour of our solar system today using just one Falcon 9.
What should we do next guys!?
I love your videos ;3
I managed to record a landing of kaaba on north pole of The Moon in my UA-cam account. And I planned another kaaba landed on Venus or Mars. Perhaps you should land a landmark worthy for kerbals/humanity as kaaba for muslims' praying direction on surface of other bodies.
You should use some Falcon Heavies to assemble an interstellar probe via EOR! Then you should send it to another solar system!
We are funs of you no matter how long it takes :D
How about doing a gravity assist(s) to do a absolute speed run by the sun (without exploding) in RO using current rocket technology available today. Recreate NASA's Helios missions possibly?
Challenge : Launch 100 cube sats Using falcon heavy.
Requirements
IT has to use Block 5
It has to be done with Realism overhaul and RSS
It has to recover all 3 cores
IT has to be awesome 😉
Ooohhh.. I like this. Would be cool if I spun them all out as we hit a Jupiter gravity assist. They would end up all over the solar system. :)
@@MarcusHouse so a dyson swarm
Very interesting video, Marcus! I was curious about this myself :D.
Great commentary you've got mate.
So today we had sunshine, a Royal Wedding, Man Utd. getting beaten in the FA Cup Final... really says I to myself, can this day get any better? And then I discover Marcus House has posted a new video, and realise it can!
Great video as usual there mate, you did a great job, WAY better than that Nessus fellow (but don't tell him I said so!). Actually his videos are just so-so, yours are much better! 😀
Joking aside, I really enjoyed this, but I still have no idea how you manage to spot these planetary alignments to pull these gravity assists off. I can just about manage to use one to get myself from Minmus to Kerbin, using the Mun to throw me into Kerbin's atmosphere when I've miscalculated how much Dv I needed to get home.
Amazing video yet again. I love the spacex stuff. You should do a video on re-entry heating. Testing how fast something can slice through the atmosphere without being destroyed and creating a vehicle with the best re-entry heating.
I think the "problem" with these Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy videos is that I have a hard time believing that SpaceX would ever consider putting a cryogenic upper stage inside the payload fairing. They wouldn't want to use an existing engine like the RL-10 for publicity reasons, and also in real life it isn't as simple as slapping an engine on to a procedural tank. Even if they were ok with using an existing engine, they'd probably have to use Centaur, but that wouldn't work because Centaur is 12.68 meters long, and the Falcon payload fairing is 13 meters long, leaving basically no room for a hypergolic (or solid) 4th stage like the one in this video, let alone an actual spacecraft. SpaceX would have to develop their own cryogenic upper stage for something like this, but I think they'd rather wait for BFR for deep-space launches. That being said, I love these videos.
well done. next challange: send landers to all the big moons of saturn, uranus, neptune, and 2 landers to pluto and charon with the BFR, on the fastest routes and in the most efficient courses possible in term of deltaV spending.
Love your RSS videos.
If you don't mind waiting 200 years, sure.
Loving the RO videos! I feel like you'd make really good past mission replica videos. Missons like new horizons, the voyagers, inner rocky planet missions etc etc
This is awesome, the only thing that could make this video better would be if you managed to fly by Triton at the end of the journey, but otherwise it's great
These were the videos I miss them
You are awesome Marcus. Thanks! Could you do a video on how you calculate your launch windows for missions such as this one?
May you can make a comparetion of launch from Florida against Alcântara base?
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Finally something to temporarily cure my *D E P R E S S I O N*
Hope it makes your day brighter my friend! :)
i am here for the same reason :(
Watch memes that cure depression
Nice work Marcus! It's very very educational! Can you explain us how to calculate a launch to rendezvous? I hate correct inclinations before I get the orbit...
Best way to get the correct inclination (generally matching that of the moon) at launch is to place a small sat at about 200km that is perfectly matched to the Moons inclination. You can then use that vessel as your target (which is also much easier to align in the map view) and with Kerbal Engineer. Then wait until the relative inclination is almost zero (sometimes need to pick alternate launch sites depending on the time of year). I kind of show this very briefly at the start of this video. To pick the correct launch window to transfer to another body (Jupiter etc) use Transfer Window Planner (it is great).
Marcus House oh that's great! Thanks for share your amazing skills whit us!
Nice!
Nice one!
I always think of the New Horizons probe that was launched on an Atlas V 551 which has less payload than an expendable Falcon but a bit more than a reusable one and that was launched directly into a solar escape trajectory at 16.2 km/s. It did get a gravity assist from Jupiter that says it saved 3 years on the trip past Pluto.
You can't scale payload to LEO with payload to interplanetary that's not how it works. The payload drop off is unique with every rocket and it drops much steeper on Falcon than Atlas. Especially 551. It's actually overtakes Falcon in payload capacity to interplanetary and so do most rockets with high energy upper stages such as Centaur. Poor Falcon stage 2 can't keep up with efficient hydrogen powered stages.
are you doing it on an earlier version of the game?
i should go and try to get this working because i really want to play some RSS
Hey hey, Marcus House uploaded something!
I wonder if we can get Congress to fund a 160+ year mission.
Do a falcon heavy and show us how much faster it can do the same mission since it wont need a lot of those gravity assists
Voyager style!
Hey Marcus.
Is it possible for you to share your gamedata folder/any folder needed to get the game just like yours?
Getting mods to work is a pain. This would help me put greatly if possible
Do you use RO or RP-0?
Hey Marcus! I was wondering how u record your videos. Do you record the game first and then record your voice over it or record and talk at the same time as the game? And if you do record your voice after the game recording, what program do u use to add your voice to the video? Thx and great video!
It is all prerecorded and edited down. Editing and voiceover is done with Sony Vegas.
Oh ok thanks for replying :)
How much payload or how fast could you go to the Neptune or Uranus?
How much more payload or faster could one complete it with fully fueled falcon 9 from LEO. (Meaning if one launched a falcon 9 into LEO, then docked another rocket to top it off ala' BFR ?)
What mod did you use for the RL-10B-2?
I believe that's SSTU
Hey Marcus! Great video as always, but where did you get the RO configs for the F9?
I can't quite recall exactly. Thay are shown in the mod post thread there somewhere.
Can you please upload a video on how to install realism overhaul?
Ferghus Meighan Google it, installing it is really easy
JamiDoesStuff yeah but installing 1.2...
Do you know if there are Mods/ Overhauls coming for the current version of KSP?
Hello I have a problem with KSP 1.2.2 and Launchers Pack with RealismOverhaul and Realfuels. It doesn't work. How did you do ? Thanks
You have to get the config files for it
I'm Jealous
What type of PC do you use cuz your FPS is *soooo* Smooth.
I have a Stone PC.
Its a 🥔 at KSP =(
In many cases I am speeding up footage to make it play faster, this makes it seem super smooth but is a lot of the time playing at 2x speed or faster.
I do have a pretty sweet PC though :)
How can I get the falcon 9 ship?
Why you don't show the landing of the first stage?
Nice one can you use mechjeb for gravity assets?
I'd recommend Transfer Window Planner to allow you to easily pick the launch windows. Doing a grand tour like this is a bit more tricky but you essentially want several planets leading each other by about 30 degrees so you can skip from one to another just using gravity assists.
There is a transfer window option on MJ2 and Maneuver Node thingy can place maneuver nodes for some operation (changing plane or Ap/Pe, Hohmann, etc.) so I'm pretty sure it can help you.
I want it to do it for me, because I'm lazy
Any advice on gravity braking?
You can reduce your solar orbit velocity by doing the gravity assist on the opposite side of the planet (so you exit the sphere of influence from the planet in a retrograde direction).
so you do use a 3rd stage. I thought this is about if F9 can deliver something directly to jupiter
Falcon9 uses multiple stages, what do you mean?
Ted Cameron 2, not 3
Fair comment, although with the size of their fairing I would imagine there would be space for a small 3rd stage with a small payload, or even have a large enough payload to be able to take say a rover with a lander, or like I think they should, send out a couple of smaller video capable sats so that instead of just having to rely on telemetry they could actually watch the landings :~)
Go to the Mun or any place really without using the map
Is it useful to use gravity assists to get into a retrograde orbit? How about a Kerbal simulation episode to visit this potential interstellar asteroid?
www.iflscience.com/space/an-interstellar-asteroid-has-been-found-hiding-inside-our-solar-system-and-we-could-visit-it/
what mod is he using to make Kerbin look like that?
Real solar system, its a rescale/planets pack that replaces the stock planets with real world planets.
If it can go that far with a Falcon 9 what would happen with a Falcon heavy
How many more Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy related videos will we see?
Not sure. Are you asking because you like them or dislike them?
+Marcus House Love them!!!
I'm asking because I am starting to dislike them, as it seems you've been only making Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy videos now.
So we just gonna ignore the landing?
So does that mean that the boosters that launched the voyagers had the same capability as the falcon 9 today?
Joshua Ocso A bit less capability, but certainly comparable.
Elon wants to know your location
I want to see a ksp simulation of going through Jupiter
i can't get spacex mods to work with ro and rss on 1.3.1 (only the falcon 1 works properly for some reason) is there a way to fix this?
I can't get it working either. I'm on 1.2.2.
Amazing as always (even without a booster landing haha) !
Anyway this BFR mod seems good for a mission reconstruction :) forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/173915-bfr-by-alcentar-v12/
Thanks mate. Yes I need to give this BFR mod a crack.
You have to use Principia mod
falcon 9 mod link anyone plz?
Loove the Kiwi eccent from New Zailnd.
What is a Kiwi accent, also, it's New Zealand, not New Zailnd
1.2 man, that update seems like a decade ago.
Yup, all the RSS mods really only work well currently using 1.2.2. The game hasn't really changed all that much since then in any significant way so it's all good. I don't know if we are likely to see full support with all these mods with 1.4.* any time in the near future.
Marcus House Maybe they abandoned the project/ have been really busy with life or school.
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Ah, block 5 looks beautiful as always.
What mods are you using?
Sparrowhawk’s CGI check description
Yolkolai oh thanks
Mods are listed in the description but I am also using some texture packs from Space Bird for the Block 5 textures.
Marcus House if possible could I have a link to those?
I landed a probe on Mars with falcon nine in Spaceflight simulator
I'm trying to bring a cybertruck to the Moon, drive around, and land the core stage, all without crashing, or cheats, not even quicksaves.
A B S O L U T E U N I T
*crashes into the sun*
Interesting video. I didn't know that it took so long to orbit the sun before now. Now I'm curious how long it takes pluto to do a full orbit...hm
I think it is about 265 years for one Pluto orbit
google! :D
Pluto has only completed just over 1/3 of an orbit around the sun since it was discovered. Google says it was discovered in 1930 and it's orbital period is 248 years.
That’s not the real saturn. Where’s the rings with the dreadnaught hole?
Challenge:Launch A Mars Rover Using Falcon 9
Requiermemts:
It Has To Be Block 4
You Need To Use The Delay Mod
You Need To Land Propulsively On Mars
You Need To Land Manually The Booster (You can use KOS if you want)
IT BETTER GO TO ELON MUSK!!!!
To intercept with satan ? XD
Lets get to Jupiter to get more stupider
Good video, but it's not a Falcon 9, at least not fully.
How do you mean?
He is using the RL-10 vacuum engine not the Merlin Vacuum engine
It is an added third stage to send payload out of Earth SOI. Without the third stage it would take a Falcon Heavy to accomplish the same goal...
Elon Musk should be taking notes...
Rip falcon 9 main boster ,u didn't land it
No, you can't.
but he did
I mean the math works