So, just a little backstory behind this. I saw that the KSP devs posted their ISS anniversary challenge thing last week and I was intending to do something for it... But of course, I forgot about it until I saw Matt Lowne's ISS station. So, I decided to see if I could push myself to make an ambitious video in 2 days to get this out on the 20th anniversary of continuous ISS habitation. To do that, I stayed up for a continuous 40 hours, working on this almost non stop over the weekend. I'll say, this was an interesting experience, but not something I'd ever look to repeat. I hope you enjoy this odd piece of content!
Me, seeing the completely disproportionate fairing: "oh cool he's making it single launch" *Launch 1: Station core* WHAT NO STRATZ PLEASE NO THINK OF THE FPS
I wish there were some larger solar panels in the game. I couldn't quite get the proportions of the solar panel/radiators right or else the part count would be way too high. There's like 600-800 parts in just the solar panels already!
To be fair I have also used fleas as sepatrons, when I built a single launch artificial gravity duna station that needed two saturn V sized boosters on either side of the darn thing to get into lko
Fun fact : recently, a French youtuber I'm following (the great Yann Solo from 12 Parsecs) made an educational video about the ISS. And in the middle of it, he said something like "For those who don't know, the ISS wasn't sent in space just like that. Hell, just try in KSP, if you manage to build this bad boy on the ground, launch it and put it into orbit IN ONE PIECE, I'll invite you in my living room to have a drink and make a video with me!" Of course, I tried. And failed. I've been trying to single-launch-to-orbit this station _for weeks_ , struggling with awful frame-rates... and now Stratz shows up and gracefully puts a five-thousand-ton beast of an ISS into orbit, in beautiful butter-smooth footage. I feel personally attacked lmao
Thanks! Single launching stations is indeed a big challenge, but there are techniques to make it easier. The big one I used for this station was the heaviest auto-struts: with this auto-strut type, you can place a few heavy fuel tanks in symmetry and then all these autostruts will link to them, making a very sturdy connection... Hopefully that makes sense. Also, if you want help with it, feel free to join my discord server and ask: discord.gg/DWXyA2C . I'm more than happy to help if you have questions. I'm sure you could make your station work. Keep at it and maybe ask some questions if you get stuck and you'll get it in no time!
@@Stratzenblitz75 Thanks for the advice ! I've heard of autostrut quite often, but never knew exactly what it was. And I'm definitely joining the discord !
My initial thought was "oh he's launching the ISS in one rocket, Matt Lowne already did this". This is what I thought up until I saw the "Station Core" text, then I really knew what was going on. Well done sir.
Thank you! I wanted to launch it single launch since that approach is typically easier, but I couldn't since it was simply too bulky. Docking is not fun... Just docking all the pieces took the most time out of the building phase.
I say the same thing about KSP that I do about Skyrim: Thank God for the modders and the content creators, because without them the studio would have let this thing die years ago.
Great now make this single launch, reusable, ssto, and make it orbit around eeloo. (This is a joke by the way of course I’m not asking that little of him)
To everyone saying stratzenblitz’s ISS is better than Matt’s: I’d say that they both are good and impressive. Either way, I think that both of them did a fantastic job and are truly amazing KSP players
Thank you! That's a very good question, and one I can actually answer since I did it in mostly one sitting. So, I started work on the station at 10-11 pm on Saturday, and then worked until 10-11 pm on Sunday to finish it. So, the station itself took ~24 hours to design and assemble in orbit. After I did that, I took a 1-2 hour break and then worked on the video. I'd say that I started at 12 pm and worked until 9 am, so 9 hours for video.
Autosruts! The 5m tanks are one of the best tanks for autostrutting in the game since they are so heavy. By setting it up so the 5m tanks are the heaviest on the station, all the heaviest autostruts will link to them and make a very sturdy connection.
Uhhhh you forgot two air locks (pirs and poisk) they are both attached to the top and bottom docking ports of zvezda ( the one at the very edge that doesn’t have things sticking out of it)
God that's the size of rocket I use to take large bases to EELOO. The fact that you use this to get to kerbin orbit shows just how insane the size of that station is!
By having mods it's possible to add a solar array to a solar panel so it always faces the sun then turn off the solar arrays solar panels turning ability
Looking at the final product, it seems at first absurdly titanic, a gargantuan space hulk that could never be built in real life. And yet.... That final mass.... It's not actually that unreasonable. Just 13x the mass of the ISS. All we'd need is 55 Starship launches. For comparison, 36 shuttle missions were flown to assemble the ISS, nevermind the substantial contributions of Russia and others. Starship, at a target launch cost of $2 million per flight, could fly all 55 of those launches for less than the cost of a single Space Shuttle launch. Even if SpaceX gets nowhere near that target pricepoint, Starship could build a titanic station like this for far less than it cost to build the ISS.
So, just a little backstory behind this. I saw that the KSP devs posted their ISS anniversary challenge thing last week and I was intending to do something for it... But of course, I forgot about it until I saw Matt Lowne's ISS station.
So, I decided to see if I could push myself to make an ambitious video in 2 days to get this out on the 20th anniversary of continuous ISS habitation.
To do that, I stayed up for a continuous 40 hours, working on this almost non stop over the weekend.
I'll say, this was an interesting experience, but not something I'd ever look to repeat.
I hope you enjoy this odd piece of content!
Nice
*** S L E E P ***
Nice
the madman, he actually did it
And to think nasa hasn’t come crawling to your door
That's an alarming fairing-to-rocket ratio.
Its like some kind of rapier piercing the skies
@@Avetho "rapier"
was that meant to be some kinda pun or were you talking about an actual rapier?
@@guyingrey1072 yea ik
@@randomguy0047 Lol I didn't get what you meant until I read it a few times XD
@@Avetho bruh lol
Me, seeing the completely disproportionate fairing: "oh cool he's making it single launch"
*Launch 1: Station core*
WHAT NO STRATZ PLEASE NO THINK OF THE FPS
I was thinking of the FPS! Launching it one stage was simply too much for me.
@@Stratzenblitz75 Thank the Kraken, our dude is not completely insane just yet :D
@@laelienriviere5735 *Yet.*
@@Firebolt193 Next week: Stratzenblitz announce his new liquid-cooled PC build!
@@dsdy1205 cryogenic RP-1 cooled PC xd
"1597 parts"
Strat, you really need to stop using that supercomputer from NASA
Lol!
I wonder what kind of PC he got lol.
@@throwaway80345 nasa
Mate I had 2000 pieces on one plane/rocket/ssto/VTOL/some crazy shite/jet and I did that on a wesly ps4. Not even pro version...
@@tubz9848 yeah but not while recording whit a ton of visual mods, right?
ISS 20 year anniversary
Matt Lowne : ISS replica
Stratzenblitz75 : GIANT ISS replica
MAXIMUM ISS
Am I the only one who read the title as megaISIS and was imagining giant terrorists.
@Internet Critic hey you play sfs
When you realize that the small parts of solar panels that can tilt are actually each the biggest solar panel in the stock game
Im sorry.
What
w h a t
Yep, each panel on these long branches is a Gigantor XL Solar Array.
How much electricity do they make? *yes.*
I wish there were some larger solar panels in the game. I couldn't quite get the proportions of the solar panel/radiators right or else the part count would be way too high. There's like 600-800 parts in just the solar panels already!
and most of the lights are Mk3 16-seat passenger modules.
Matt Lowne: *makes ISS*
Stratzenblitz: *Dwarfs Matt's ISS*
Matt Lowne: "That wasn't very cash money of you"
When you think the ISS couldn't get any cooler...
anything can be cooler with stratzenblitz.
... you add more radiators!
This is the Space Station she tells you not to worry about.
LMFAO
And you are matt lown's station 😂
you know you have to re-enter this thing now.
now watch brad come along and 1up all of you with a single launch ISS that's even bigger, but put in low retrograde solar orbit.
Big isn’t brad’s style, he’d just go to low solar orbit on nothing but RCS
@@jbritain yeah true. Mini iss to retrograde low kerbol orbit then. Unless danny glitches one there with launch clamps first...
@@jbritain he does big sometimes in Bill's Odyssey
Completely automated construction by RoboTug
using only 6.43ms deltav
1:12 Fleas as sepatrons. That’s when you know you’re at STRATZ SCALE.
In the Upsilon initiative video, when doing the citadel, I think he used 4 Mammoth engines as separatrons...
@@kerbodynamicx472 yep
To be fair I have also used fleas as sepatrons, when I built a single launch artificial gravity duna station that needed two saturn V sized boosters on either side of the darn thing to get into lko
I use fleas as sepratrons quite regulary XD
The “international” bit comes from the size not the collaboration
2024: the ISS is being retired
So we can make a bigger one
2030 actually
@@timbermicka no, 2024.
@@CardZed wont it be retired in parts?
you know because its not all created at the same time?
There is already plan to build an artificial gravity ring station from Space X
and Gateway Foundation
For those unaware, this is over 13 times heavier than the human International Space Station.
Fun fact : recently, a French youtuber I'm following (the great Yann Solo from 12 Parsecs) made an educational video about the ISS. And in the middle of it, he said something like "For those who don't know, the ISS wasn't sent in space just like that. Hell, just try in KSP, if you manage to build this bad boy on the ground, launch it and put it into orbit IN ONE PIECE, I'll invite you in my living room to have a drink and make a video with me!"
Of course, I tried. And failed. I've been trying to single-launch-to-orbit this station _for weeks_ , struggling with awful frame-rates... and now Stratz shows up and gracefully puts a five-thousand-ton beast of an ISS into orbit, in beautiful butter-smooth footage.
I feel personally attacked lmao
Matt Lowne's was single launch to orbit.
Thanks!
Single launching stations is indeed a big challenge, but there are techniques to make it easier. The big one I used for this station was the heaviest auto-struts: with this auto-strut type, you can place a few heavy fuel tanks in symmetry and then all these autostruts will link to them, making a very sturdy connection... Hopefully that makes sense.
Also, if you want help with it, feel free to join my discord server and ask: discord.gg/DWXyA2C . I'm more than happy to help if you have questions.
I'm sure you could make your station work. Keep at it and maybe ask some questions if you get stuck and you'll get it in no time!
@@Stratzenblitz75 Thanks for the advice ! I've heard of autostrut quite often, but never knew exactly what it was. And I'm definitely joining the discord !
This isn't big, this is huge :D
Giant*
Why don't you ask him to use Parallax?
Your pc must be as powerful as the rockets that took it up there!
Didnt realize how massive this was until I saw the individual gigantor arrays
My Dad: Retire that space station
Me: Why?
My Dad: we have a bigger one downstairs
Iss: I'm the biggest most expensive spacecraft ever
This guy: hold my space beer
Stratzenblitz: Builds Mega ISS
Kraken: Its free real estate
1:25 that transition and cam rotation is so smooth...
With all that laggyness.
Kraken: oh what's that thing you build there ᴼل͜ᴼ
Obligatory "wow I'm early"
Anyways, I think you absolutely nailed it!
@Colin Quirk obligatory same
When the solar array is larger than your entire Eve mission fleet combined
This is beyond the scope of me... And my computer
you: Matt Lowne
the guy she tells you not to worry about: Stratzenblitz75
Meh, Matt did it in one launch. :D
/s
STOOPID this thing is WAY BETTER than ANYTHING matt can even do. its HUGE, and that thing was tiny.
@@chickenbokernot2598 did you not see the /s
@@Fred_the_1996 shut up
@@chickenbokernot2598 shut up
My initial thought was "oh he's launching the ISS in one rocket, Matt Lowne already did this". This is what I thought up until I saw the "Station Core" text, then I really knew what was going on. Well done sir.
Thank you! I wanted to launch it single launch since that approach is typically easier, but I couldn't since it was simply too bulky.
Docking is not fun... Just docking all the pieces took the most time out of the building phase.
I'm just waiting for him to just get sponsored by NASA at this point.
@Jay Polasek ksp gets support from NASA and even partnered with ESA
Amazing job, now please go get some well deserved sleep :D
I saw the first rocket and I thought: "Wow, that's big."
*AND THEN IT SAID IT WAS JUST FOR THE CORE*
Early :D
But yooo its so cool, and i can barely manage to orbit the mobile lab with solar panels
I just wanted to say that your videos are the highlight of my day. keep up the good work!!!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
@@Stratzenblitz75 just wanna say that you deserve a mil subs more than anyone
Jesus that’s giant. The real ISS houses six people tops, right? This beast looks like it can handle 6000
Go to sleep
its 9:07AM PST
@@VortexStolenName it's 6:12pm
Oh hey, it’s you
@@Bitgedon what
@@VortexStolenName I’ve seen him on reddit, he’s uhhh, a not so perfect guy :)
Good video, now take rest.
And i wanna ask something,
Did you play ksp with 1 fps?
It's... it's... beautiful.
Loved the video, this is amazing :D
Wonderful station, I only wish that there was at least one scene where you showed a Kerbal next to it for scale.
I knew I was forgetting something!
@@Stratzenblitz75 40 hours straight will do that to you 😋
Amazing! I would have loved to see a kernel go Eva next to it to get a better idea of the size. That solar panel setup is crazy
"Today I will be launching the Washington monument."
ok now make it twice the size
-___-
@@Stratzenblitz75
I say the same thing about KSP that I do about Skyrim: Thank God for the modders and the content creators, because without them the studio would have let this thing die years ago.
Great now make this single launch, reusable, ssto, and make it orbit around eeloo.
(This is a joke by the way of course I’m not asking that little of him)
Nono, it’s have to be Ion engines.
Stratzenblitz75 video:
Kraken: Yes
Thx stratz, I now feel relaxed. Every single shot is beautiful!
When you make the gigantor solar array look like a cute little solar panel
To everyone saying stratzenblitz’s ISS is better than Matt’s: I’d say that they both are good and impressive. Either way, I think that both of them did a fantastic job and are truly amazing KSP players
What a pro! Very nicely filmed. How long did it take to create the video vs the craft?
Thank you!
That's a very good question, and one I can actually answer since I did it in mostly one sitting.
So, I started work on the station at 10-11 pm on Saturday, and then worked until 10-11 pm on Sunday to finish it. So, the station itself took ~24 hours to design and assemble in orbit. After I did that, I took a 1-2 hour break and then worked on the video. I'd say that I started at 12 pm and worked until 9 am, so 9 hours for video.
5:25 i neednt part count! I need fps and bugs count!
:)
Love the frequency of uploads lately!
Stratz can u pls gimme ur ARG font? I wanna use it in one of myself
Thx in advance ;)
How come the Kraken didn't destroy it?
where can i download this project "?
Hey, Stratz. Here's a suggestion for your next build:
A *100% reusable* space station launch vehicle. *NO* restrictions. With your mods of choice.
this is incredible, how did you keep the kraken away? black magic? rituals? SNACKS? I MUST KNOW!
Autosruts! The 5m tanks are one of the best tanks for autostrutting in the game since they are so heavy. By setting it up so the 5m tanks are the heaviest on the station, all the heaviest autostruts will link to them and make a very sturdy connection.
Those 4 people who disliked, I hate them.
MAN 20 years !
Imagine Mir didn't decommissioned %)
Any deviations from original orbit after full assembly ? %)
Uhhhh you forgot two air locks (pirs and poisk) they are both attached to the top and bottom docking ports of zvezda ( the one at the very edge that doesn’t have things sticking out of it)
"What's your FPS?" *YES*
Yeah I guess that’s pretty big
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if this guy and Danny 2462 had a collab it would be the most epic thing in the universe
The ISS is cool and all, but I wish we had spent that 20 years of funding on something more permanent...
Sees giant rocket - wow, you've outdone yourself
It says launch one - *surprised pikachu face*
Most underrated ksp youtuber imo
where is mega Nauka?!
(yes, I know this was before Nauka was finally part of the ISS)
have you any where a link for the Craft file @ Stratzenblitz75?
it's a very good viedeo.
Imagine if he did something like today with his new Scaleable Launch System. He could launch the entire thing with 1 rocket
0:25 me: sees rokcet
Also me:WHAT A MADLAD HES SIMPLY GONE TOO FAR
What sound mods/ engine plum mods do you use @Stratzenblitz75 . cant seem to find any
BRAVO!
Now do it in a single launch...
It's more than ten time the mass of the real one, but it looks amazing ! really nice !
Now if you hit that space station with an asteroid I think- *game has crashed thanks to a ridiculous amount of free flying objects*
Why it no wobbelybobbely? Where is the kraken?
All my rockets 1/4 the size of what you see here turn into spagheti. Am i missing something?
I know right i got a 4k rig and anything past 600 parts is unplayable.
@@Qcnordique The parts number is fine, the framerate does not tank. It just turns into spagheti for some reason.
@@WalvisYT oh i didn't meant the frame rate i agreed with you. My ship just explodes on launch if it doesn't crash the game.
1597...that is a lot of parts(i wonder about ur fps there) but i bet actual ISS has more
Nice job!!!!......what would a stock kerbal shuttle look like docked to this monster?
Stratz, ik you probably won’t reply back but.... how long did it take you to assemble the station?
It took about 24 hours to design and assemble it in orbit
How in gods name did you make that out of ONLY 1500 parts!!!
Real ISS is about 420 tons. So yeah, this is a step up from that. Not sure what the part count is though.
wow imagine launching it all at once
The fairing reminds me of Doug Dimmadome’s hat. Does this make these rockets Doug Dimmadome’s Dimmarockets?
God that's the size of rocket I use to take large bases to EELOO. The fact that you use this to get to kerbin orbit shows just how insane the size of that station is!
It has been too long since one of Stratzenblitz's Big Fairing Monstrosities™ has flown.
You should try and fit the ISS into one rocket and then make it fold out in space. That would be cool
this might be a dumb question, but what mod or mods are you using to make the planet look cool like that (1:20)
I may have to fine you for using 6-sided fairings. Otherwise amazing feat
1-upping Matt Lowne has become a sport in the KSP community
By having mods it's possible to add a solar array to a solar panel so it always faces the sun then turn off the solar arrays solar panels turning ability
I just realized. Where is pirs, poisk, and BEAM?
I completely 100% thought this said “Mega ISIS”
My pc preemptively overheated just by looking at this
so yesterday I connected two hunks of space junk in orbit
Looking at the final product, it seems at first absurdly titanic, a gargantuan space hulk that could never be built in real life.
And yet.... That final mass....
It's not actually that unreasonable. Just 13x the mass of the ISS.
All we'd need is 55 Starship launches. For comparison, 36 shuttle missions were flown to assemble the ISS, nevermind the substantial contributions of Russia and others.
Starship, at a target launch cost of $2 million per flight, could fly all 55 of those launches for less than the cost of a single Space Shuttle launch.
Even if SpaceX gets nowhere near that target pricepoint, Starship could build a titanic station like this for far less than it cost to build the ISS.
The fact that we can even consider this just shows how SpaceX has truly revolutionized spaceflight. Very excited for the future!
what are your pc specs? my pc would turn into a oven if it tried to run just one of those launches
Matt Lowne is shaking
opens video, *clicks like*, watches video. *likes it*
The video hasn't even loaded and I'm clicking that Like button
this man did this and my computer crashed when I reverted a BDB test craft for the first time