Brad: *Does a no-refuel grand tour* Everyone: *Wait, that's illegal*

@Matt Horkan this is why I believe Kerbals are descended from tardigrades.

WOW YOU DI THIS

@Matt Horkan It'd take several years perhaps decades for the right orbits, and your cosmonaut would be in a space suit in a chair, what is this cabin you speak of?

Touch 'n go, extreme edition

Just javelin the flag out the window on the pass

@@royisabau5 that baby ain't NEVER comin out of the ground

KingHalbatorix *pierces through the whole planet with escape velocity on the other side*

@@royisabau5 LMAO

Boy, stratz threw a mission to Dres for 160 years.

W t f

Honestly compared to some missions I’ve seen that’s pretty short

"Alpha Centauri with a 3.7 tonne craft"

Ovin round trip with only ksp1 part?

Colonizing every planet with 17 tons

4.3 ton SSTO to KSP1 and back (no mining)

Every planet using SSTO and chair only

Yes, we need this!

It’s easy boii

@@emm1757 best tutorial ever yo.

@@emm1757 Ikr

He already made one lol

One of esa’s probes did the same thing

Cassini did a venus venus earth jupiter assist to saturn, then did like 40 something titan assists

the voyager 1 deep space probe made 4 gravity assists, without it It wouldn't even get close to leaving the solar system

I REALLY love how Earth, Venus, Earth, Earth, Jupiter, is just KEKKJ but IRL :D

I feel like Ive seen this before...

higher on the street

Eurobeat Intensifies

Only to find all the guys who told him he couldn't had died of old age by now.

And gets told that he was in front of the Astronaut Complex, not the Administration building

N9 love your videos keep up the great work my dude

Oops, Astronaut Complex ur right. Also cheers Tristan!

Bill kicks down the door ready to brag, only to find the KSC is long abandoned and his 90-year-old leg has broken from the kick

Stratzenblitzs Ion catapult is nice too, though

@@fabiankonrath2804 It is quite a feat, but this mission pushes margins in more dimensions, I think

It is. Just got to do some mining.

Liam WALSH but is it possible WITHOUT refueling?

The limitation in this case would be specific impulse. Even the nuclear motor isn't efficient enough to let you add so much fuel to it. So, I assume that without staging, it's impossible without mods or an exploit that hasn't been discovered yet.

@@Lightnin_Thundr probably it possible in "no waste" style with some docking

Landing on a planet or moon without an atmosphere requires lots of delta v, there is no way around that (you can get rid of some horizontal velocity with brakes, as demonstrated by Bradley countless times, but that’s about it). For Vall and Tylo you need rocket engines, ion engines are too weak and air breathing engines don’t work due to lack of atmosphere. I’m too lazy to calculate but landing from a Jool orbit on Tylo and then Vall and then into orbit around Jool again is probably already at the limit of a LV-N Nerv rocket.

Almost. Check out his minmus rocket. Use mun assist to go around kerbin and eve multiple times to go for jool for free. Jool can well eject you out of kerbol. 900~ m/s interstellar

yea, after a couple hundred of hours of KSP and being able to do a manned eve return it feels like one has beaten the game. Then one sees Bradly, Stratzenblitz, Turbopumped, Hazardish and: O_o Feels like one has just gotten the basics and now can really start to learn the game 😅

That's how NASA does it.

Get outa here pesky rocks!

abour two months of planning and testing, if not longer if he started planning this missions before huge respect

I just assume he can do whatever. After he achieved SSTO to Eve and back, I just accepted that fact.

First they aren’t called flight directors, second they wouldn’t tell you to taxi until you landed, third it was Bill, not Jeb.

@@cadenorris4009 nice hater

That's what this is?

@@lifegeek5742 this was un_re_fueled. next he's gonna do it with no fuel at all. just the power of f r i e n d s h i p (and fuel valves)

Ladder drives? Are those still a thing?

@@thwartificer they patched *those* but there's always a kraken to take

@@lifegeek5742 yes.

kErB

Good point

@@BradleyWhistance but despite my very important and completely serious complaint, fantastic video

My record for this is 3 times, I think 10 times is impossible though, I would already be very impressed if he achieves 4 or even 5 times

@taehwan jang oh jeez you right But... I mean he did it with mining

@taehwan jang I remember someone went to jool with 10 ton rocket, but I can't find it now for some reason. I believe it was Bradley Whistance. upd: yeah, some of "Odyssey by Bill" episodes are now not available

Faster phys warp won't work. His craft have a lot of parts so he isn't even able to run them at full stock speed. In most cases, faster physics warps only work for speeding up maneuver nodes.

Because the ion engines have a horrible TWR which literally sits around 0.1-0.2, meaning that instead of one short burn for circularization or changing your orbit, you'll need several dozens of burns, each burn executed at the perigee/apogee for maximum effect. Because of the low TWR, these engines literally burn for real-world hours until you reach your orbit (check the ingame clock, achieving his kerbin orbit alone took him nearly 7 years. Now remember, even though he could technically timewarp from burn to burn, the real timesink here is the burn time for those ion engines, and you can't timewarp during a burn- hence the need for automation

@@B30167 You can indeed timewarp during a burn by holding the alt key while pressing the time warp keys.

@@snutsnut2725 The warp level is limited, though. And phys-warp probably would just defer the problem until his margins get even tighter.

...part clipping dude.... look at 40K+ liquid fuel...That's a very large ship

Using an interstellar mothership craft, with autostability and contrarotating artificial gravity rings, and 100,000 m/s of delta-v... Just tk get to orbit and back

Ryan Espinoza you should familiarize yourself with the nuclear engine

I think he is a real life space man

You don't need to calculate much you just keep experimenting. One way I used to do it is make a simple craft and enable infinite fuel cheat to measure the amount of delta V you would need, and then you build an actual craft that meets those requirements. As for the gravity assists, once you actually understand how they work it's not hard to just eyeball which angle you need to come in from to maximize the gains, and then it's just a matter of waiting decades in space for the correct alignment.

Dude, I often struggle to take off, when I do take off it is rarely equatorial and I can never land on anothe body and come home to kerbin.

Also about the ion engines, i could not decypher from the video but it's good to tell that 2 atomizers support 1 ion engine and it's useful to have them as range extenders without any need of excess battery banks.

8 rapier engines 8 nuclear engines (nerv) 5 ion engines 4 wolfhound cant help with craft weight

Coobk165[GER] wow thank u man

@@BananaBlaster64 KER works fine in 1.9

Vectura did a new version come out??? Or is the old version working again because it was very wonky in 1.8

@@BananaBlaster64 I'm just using the one I was using in 1.8, didn't need to update and I'm not having any issues.

I did do an Eve SSTO using this approach. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKx1mq6a3c-4eI0.html

Kelly Wu yay

@@ryanspence5831 HE has made it legal