Fortunately, I had a really helpful campaign play-through tutorial to learn how to play this game four years ago. =)

Tutorial by Mr.Whistance: How to make stupidly large SSTK's and SSTO's with stupidly difficult parameters.

that comment was so wholesome it made me nostalgically tear up @@BradleyWhistance

What tutorial?!SHOW ME!!!

@@Cby0530 Scott made a campaign (now "science") mode tutorial years ago. It's on an old version of KSP, though, so the atmospheric physics (among other things) have changed quite a bit.

Not enough Bee Gees.

Wait, I used the 2.5m rocket fuel tanks on an Eve ssto lander as well, but on reentry the fuel tank overheated and exploded. How did you overcome the heating problem?

I use the wings and the control surfaces to control the descent. You'll notice that I pitch up to allow me to slow down before entering the lower atmosphere. (Also these are the 5m tanks btw).

Correction: I meant the how did you overcome heating with exposed fuel tanks also with 2000k heat tolerance.

OK, but now to do it without any ISRU, at all?

And ~9 years boosting the orbit.

Yes but he walked around on the surface for 10 seconds and still made it home in time for his grandchildren's funerals

I mean it's a grand feat of gameplay but this makes it stupid imho. A 61 year long space mission all by himself. That's the reason Bill is fcked up in head. Is there a player/streamer who plays it more real life-y that you guys can recommend?

@@TheKurtkapan34 Uhh, this was just a proof of concept, I'm sure he has some more realisitic gameplay.

My last GT was completed in less than 48 years, and 10 of them were wasted because I forgot to put an engineer in my Eve lander. SSTO from eve is impressive. Hats off to you sir.

He made Strat impressed... Ksp community never stops evolving :)

Yes Stratzen, this were impressive, and a nice nod to you he did show a glimpse of your vid also. ;) Edit: This time I remember to sub to Bradley, tend to loose his channel as youtube stack flying saucer and alien idiocy "bones on Mars" - yuck- as suggestions over important stuf like KSP - Wait! Small little green aliens? Where have I seen that before..... Is youtube managed by a Kerbal? :p~

Did bill have his snacks?

Hey Stratzenblitz75 🖐.

You just did this with a 1.6 tons craft

Lord and Saviour sums it up alright 👍

Stratenblitz is my lord and savior

Haha yea

I'm surprised this video didn't get more views lol

The kerbal trinity

It was a LOT more than an hour.

Well then, anyways, good job! I barely ever see so much effort put in one video. All this for us viewers. Good job :)

​@@BradleyWhistance Easily 3 - 4 hours for this maneuver alone.

Each burn time perhaps, but then, even assuming no lag on the computer, you have to timewarp 250 times to get to the periapsis again. And then correction burns, and travel times, and KSP crashing, and... wow!

This seems like a good use case for kOS, actually. Write a program to perform the ejection burns and then go have lunch. Can kOS control time warp? (if not, this would be a good feature request) In real life, orbital maneuvers with ion engines use a single months-long burn and spiral outward or inward rather than using the Oberth effect. Would you have had enough delta-V to do this?

Jack: dear god... QUICKLY! MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE THICKER!!!! MAKE GRAVITY STRONGER!!!! DO EVERYTHING YOU POSSIBLY CAN TO MAKE EVE IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think they didn’t consider the use of ISRU when they made eve.

No, more like a giant missile.

It’s ssto

@@owenvideos1439 Perhaps "Single Stage To Kerbin"? i dunno

András Fogarasi single stage to ORBIT

Same. Brad is always the one to make the most amazing missions look easy.

First to the key....

It's only impossible till it's been done.

Thanks fam. I even told other people that this was impossible several times.

Next big challenge is single stage to Tylo and back with no ISRU

I got u fam.

Bradley Whistance Thanks dude. I’ve waited a while for that.

This is just human nature. The first time someone ran a marathon under 2h5minutes it was probably not “Yay, I ran a marathon under 2:05:00! \o/” but more like: “Yay, but can we do it under 2 hours?”

DO THE IMPOSSIBLE! SEE THE INVISIBLE! ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

LAND ON JOOL WITH AN SSTO AND RETURN TO KERBIN NO REFUELING

@@Mike-oz4cv Haha and now it's been done under 2 hours. How about 1:55:00 now?

your right. this made it all up for my orthodontist appointment.

Dark Lion Critical win on that toss

*Whistance rolls a nat 20*

61

I think the craft had the smaller drill and ISRU for weight reduction, Eve’s summit has low ore concentrations, and Jeb stowed away again.

@@JYF921 It has the larger drill because Eve's summit has too little ore for the smaller drill to work at all. It has the smaller converter though, hence why it took so long. If I had used a non-engineer it would have taken hundreds of years.

@@BradleyWhistance holy crap

Carl Ramirez Twice as long sounds good but let's leave the width alone XD

You have stoked my curiosity. What kind of insanity are we talking about =)

@@BradleyWhistance Some rudimentary sstos and in particular very low mass missions to various places. I've gotten Jeb to the mun and back for under 4 tonnes but the craft is rather easy to pilot and very forgiving in terms of ascent profile which means there's probably more weight to toss overboard ;)

SSTO to the sun and back

Calm yourselves.

Woah woah woah, Calm down satan

People say there is nothing impossible but it is

I think he will use propellers for leaving atmosphere.

When I first saw your Eve SSTO video, my eyebrow went so high it is now illegal in 22 states. Thanks fam.

My eyes popped out, when I saw this ;) still proud to be one step on this ladder which you now have completed. But... Which impossibility do we chase next? :)

Sea level ascent? =0

Lowest Seabed ascent :D Well... might actually be easier than sea level, because we can jump a little out of the water :)

They are KSP community.

This isn't truly a slingshot. Since all I need to do is re-rendezvous with the same planet I left, it is a simple matter of ejecting into an orbit such that the ratio between my orbital period and Eve's orbital period is a rational number with reasonably small integers for nominator/denominator. The circular solar panel arrangement was the easiest way to pack 30 solar panels into a cargo bay without clipping. I plan to make an improved version of this, using the excess mass demonstrated here as payload, and tweaks such as better solar.

Whaatt

umm.... I've put 3,300 hours into the game I've never done a return mission to eve, so scott manley level of hard

In the same patch, the Vector/Mammoth engine atmospheric Isp curve was changed, and the drag/lift model of wings was changed. The change to Vector/Mammoth engines was a nerf for Eve SSTOs, rendering the vertical-takeoff approach considerably more difficult, and greatly reduced the potential fractional payload to orbit for this approach. The change to wings was a buff, meaning that horizontal takeoff SSTOs on Eve could reduce delta-V to drag and gravity using wings, and take-off with lower TWR to counterbalance the now lower thrust engines. Whether or not this constituted an overall nerf or buff to HTOL Eve spaceplanes is debatable, but I found slightly improved performance after the patch.

@@BradleyWhistance Thanks for the Info :D