For all of you who had questions about how I'm learning to fly, I'm not taking a low cost route, but it's working well so far and I hope to have some video from the cockpit in the future.
More science and game news - ask questions!
Thanks to Sets Chaos and Darius Johnson from http://themittani.com/
Ben from the Lunar Lion Team - http://lunarlion.psu.edu/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTPsp1aVnw
Flying Another few missions, demonstrating the full newtonian flight model, AI Wingmen, bigger ships and a Stealth mechanic that involves thermal management. Still flying with the XBox Controller because it puts everything at your fingertips.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKJgyX6FnM
Lagrange Points are special locations in planetary systems where gravitational and rotational forces cancel out. Sometimes we find asteroids or dust clouds lingering near these places. Space missions may use some of these locations for spacecraft as they offer many advantages over orbiting in the Earth directly.
Universe Sandbox is used for some of the 3 body problem animations
https://universesandbox.com/
Other graphics are created with GMAT and POV Ray
For a more mathematical derivation of these check out this series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbfY1f0QFa4OI2_zsNuuwI3YCsZluLFZ6
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I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:
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If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PHvDj4TDfM
With a view to making KSP 'fresh' for an experienced player like myself I've installed Galileo's planet pack, RoverDude's USI Colonization mods and many other packs. Now Let's see how long it takes to explore every body in a new star system
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N0fbxpoMWM
Everyone keeps asking about the Saturn V model and launch tower in the background of some of my videos.
Many of you know that the Saturn V is an official LEGO set which was hugely popular and is still available for purchase ( https://amzn.to/3ony2yL) despite being retired earlier this year. (EDIT: I found out it's being reissued under a new model number)
The Tower and platform are based on a fan designs by Valerie Roche and Emmanuel Urquiet which made it through the LEGO ideas voting process but was rejected after human review. The plans were made available but building the set would require tracking down the pieces on Bricklink or other lego markets.
This set is a kit made of compatible elements, not legitimate LEGO, and this makes it hard to build, the pieces are unsorted, the fit is poor with some things falling apart or requiring excessive force. You'll need to make modifications to strengthen the structure, thankfully there are guides online on how to do that.
I'm not including a link to the purchase, because you can google it and I want you to be really sure you want to embark on this task.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyCr3qKTqsQ
Wherein I take a challenge from PAX east and eventually realise I should have probably spent less time talking and more time with a spreadsheet calculating the deltaV of my rescue ship.
Will obviously have to do another run at this to see if I can cut the time down.
Follow me on http://twitch.tv/szyzyg
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The Highlander finishes its survey mission and it's time for the crew to come home, we send a new version of our fusion powered spaceplane named 'Draco' to recover the crew and bring them and their science home.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1enI8YminhU
We'd been waiting for this first big flight for a long time, but finally Starship Serial Number 8 took to the skies, propelled by 3 raptor engines, headed for the stratosphere where it carefully flipped onto its belly for a controlled aerodynamic descent followed by a powered landing.
In the end the landing failed due to fuel supply issues, but it looks like a way more successful flight that engineers had dared to hope for, with the vehicle demonstrating entirely new flight modes never seen before.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHxiX40eJY
Orbital mechanics can be oddly unintuitive at times, so I set out to cite a few examples where the most natural thing to do it the opposite of what you want to do.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5XPFjqPLik