Apollo³ - To the Moon and back THREE TIMES in one launch! KSP RSS/RO
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- Because sending Apollo to the Moon twice just wasn't enough apparently.
You requested it, it's your fault this monstrosity exists. It's Apollo Cubed.
I didn't really think sending Apollo to the Moon three times in one launch was possible, which is why I built Apollo Infinity instead. But, with the 1 year anniversary of Apollo squared, I decided to take my best shot at it...
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Disclaimer:
"Ignore max temperature" was used during the video. When quickloading while the craft is enormous, several parts will briefly heat up beyond melting temperature, then cool again. Spaceplane-rated procedural wings were used for re-entry, but are only made for LEO re-entries - no config exists for lunar-return wings. The 300 meter heatshield does not appear to scale ablator amounts very well, and was unusually light.
Most of the mods can be found through the installation guide:
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Contents:
0:00 Doing it once, Doing it Twice...
0:37 Apocalypse-Class launch vehicle
3:10 Headed to the Moon!
5:20 Lunar landing 1
7:20 Popping open the Can
8:36 The heatshield is HOW BIG?
9:38 Sleeping with the fishes
10:17 Waking up the fishes
12:10 The crew splits from the main vessel
13:30 A nuclear flower blooms
15:20 Rendezvous, prep for landing 2
16:45 Lunar landing 2
18:26 Return to Earth 2
20:36 Approach and Horizontal landing
21:08 DEJA VU
22:32 A Saturn V once again
24:10 Lunar landing 3
25:00 Return to Earth for the last time
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61 seadragon main engines... "Its not much thrust"
I was gonna say the same thing
Imagine having to make sure there aren’t any fuel leaks anywhere in that multi kilometer tall stack lol
Fuel leaks don’t matter. They leak and infinitesimal amount compared to the fuel tank size
Sls moment
it’s solid fuel so no high pressure.
That would be just SCREW IT
i like to believe that is the only thing wrong with a multi kilometer rocket
You know your rockets big when it’s 20% to space before it’s launched
At this point just building a literal space elevator to the Moon might be more cost effective lol
you know your rocket is big when the rcs thrusters are the size of a normal rocket
@@peanutsandvich1319 counterpoint: haha funni roket
And then the Saturn 5 turned itself into a spaceplane, funniest shit I ever seen
And then it started drifting!
"Ah yes the Saturn shuttle"
As all ships should be
>Sends the crew ahead to avoid radiation exposure in the van allen belts
>Also walks them right next to a bunch of Nerva IIs
I’m surprised there was anything to go back to, after the impact of that city-sized spent first stage.
Repair teams really did good work, reconstructing Florida in only a week!
@@TDChannelKSP Florida doesn’t need no repair teams, the Florida men crawl out of the swamp and in a drunken fever and cobble society back together in mere days.
@@Electric_Bagpipes lmfao
In 2030: landing the moon on a Saturn V
Gru would 100% do that
THREE TIMES
@@jambothejoyful2966 four times
@@PoorlyWindow549 five times
@@ididntaskforthat8208 six times.
How ridiculous are these KSP rockets gonna get. You’re smashing world records man! I dunno if the Kraken likes it anymore
The kraken is just in a corner shivering and begging for forgiveness
The kraken didn't like it when he did two trips
Kraken doesn't like it at all! Tore it apart many, many times. Luckily I have editing on my side...
@@TDChannelKSP Should we do a Apollo4 or Apollo5 ? Maybe Apollo5 the top stage is out of the atmosphere. At least we dont have to launch the first stage but instead the second or top?
Thank you
When the Tyranny of Kerbalkind is greater than the Tyranny of the rocket equation.
Yep
i love how the rocket is so large people are comparing it to asteroids instead of mountains/ buildings at this point
Yup, it's similar to Phobos. Would be funny to land it there...
@@TDChannelKSP that, is a video idea
I can see it now: “landing Phobos on Phobos”
@@TDChannelKSP do crafts of the same mass as the object they land on. What's the largest you think you could pull off?
@@TDChannelKSP It’s also the literal size of C I T I E S.
@@YaivenovE A R T H
I love the fact that part of the rocket it cubed. :)
Alright, we all know what's next.
Number 4
You better get on it, TD.
Imagine the impact force of the dropped first stages.
A MASS EXTICION
LIKE K-T EXTICION 💀💀
the first part is not very heavy when there's no fuel
depends
Doomsday
I hope there will be a time in human history when we are so wealthy and powerful that we can do stuff like this lime it’s nothing
I wonder how many times back and forth it takes for the rocket to be bigger than earth...
Probably four.
4.
If a rocket is large enough you don't even need an engine... It would have already reached the moon
Maybe between 10 and 30
Yeah probably 4.
It's still absurd to see that gigantic Christmas tree to pluto sized rocket is needed.
I see you have optimized the Apollo^2 part as well. Crew station, Vasimr flowers, and graceful shuttle saturn V!
Great video as always!
Flowers?
Yup. Finally a "reasonable" use!
Definitely wanted to make the Apollo^2 part more interesting instead of a copy paste, and who knows how large it would be without it!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@TDChannelKSP u should do apollo^4 lol
@@TDChannelKSPapollo tesseracted
For reference, 6.4 billion tons is more than 100 times the weight of the Great Wall of China, which is currently the heaviest man-made object.
MAN made because your grandmother made the heaviest human made opject
Im joking no disrespect to your mother
everyone gangsta until TD turns the Saturn V into a Space Shuttle 💀
I don’t know what’s more impressive.
The fact that he went to the moon and back 3 times, or the fact that the giant launch vehicle held together.
This man drifted a fing saturn V space plane, thats SWAG. haha loved the video
that first stage by itself is a mass extinction event when it deorbits
As someone who got this video randomly recommended to me months ago, I can’t get over my first time experience of watching TD wasting ZERO TIME with less than a minute into the video showing off a mountain sized rocket as if I’m supposed to know why it’s that absurdly large in the first place, I didn’t realize it was part of a series or that it was nearly that difficult to get to the moon and back in the first place so my confusion and excitement was at all time peak, also if there was any testament to how much better ksp 1 is to ksp 2 this videos very existence is proof enough, you probably couldn’t recreate this on three nasa computers in ksp 2
Just why using chemical rocket doing interstellar travel is completly, entirely, absolutely, definitly, ridiculous, ludicrously, hilariously, and insanely.
TD have proved to us for once and more time, and he will continuing to prove it with his surrealistic works.
You have a cinematographer's eye. 23:31 is totally a movie-quality shot, and I do not believe it was by accident. I loved this!
Can't imagine how he gonna do apollo¹⁰
You mean Apollo^11
bro gonna make a rocket the size of the earth 💀
@@fwdgd Easy way to get to the moon is making a rocket thats already as tall as its orbit
yea that'd just be a fucking space elevator
it would be 10,000,000,000,000x heavier than earth
everyone: lets make a efficient rocket stage.
TD: haha big engines go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Last year: apollo squared.
Now: cubed.
That is an increase of one power per year, thus, next year ⁴, then ⁵ then ⁶...
His great great great grandchildren will be doing Apollo 16286543
ok, at this point the apollo^4 launch vehicle will be tall enough to straight up touch the moon...
By the time TD Channel does apollo ^4, the engines would be earth sized...
a better solution: place A small moon rocket in the apollo spaceplane
That was amazing well done!
Can't wait for Apollo quad
I cannot imagine how powerful your computer is: building, launching and recording such a big rocket? that's insane
my god... hes done it again
First video I've seen on this channel, never played with RSS/RO... man... this WAS INSANE! I loved it! Subscribed instantly
Glad you liked it! Welcome to the channel, enjoy your stay :)
With that amount of thrust you can push the Earth directly into the Moon
And then there's me who cannot even put anything substantial in orbit in RSS/RO XD
Great video as always!
i have made orbit in rss a few times, once i even tried to send a impactor to the moon but couldn't get to the plane of the moon because mechjeb was thinking i didn't have the dv when i did, just to test it i tried it with a 27 kilo payload and it still didn't work.
At this point, if it gets any bigger it's gonna break physics itself.
but considering my options on what to do next, we should do mars squared, let us see how big it gets now! >:3
Imagine making rendezvous with an asteroid and it starts orbiting you lmao
Seeing the giant rocket nozzle blocking out the sun over the VAB just hovering there ominously, and then firing up and vaporizing the entire complex and the surrounding area like a nuclear bomb made me laugh out loud.
Haha, well then - mission accomplished! :)
this is the most beautiful thing ive have ever seen in ksp
I like how its so big it literally just starts both landed and in space.... genius xD
I don’t know what the heck I’m watching but I’m glad I’m watching it.
Big rocket
this is insanely cool!
Man I love when this happens
Now we(I) need mars²
@@tuerculosisgaming6307 I can agree with you
This is just madness dude
1:05
You made a rocket the size of the *CHICXULUB ASTEROID,* which is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, it is 15 kilometers wide.
I made a rocket with quite a similar size in SFS, it's only *4 kilometers tall,* but it has quite a lot of thrust. The weird thing is that this rocket *only* uses Ion engines.
Also, here's this (Milestones):
1:36 - STAGE 1 (100 TN Thrust, *6.4 GIGATONS* *(12.8 TRILLION pounds))*
1:57 - STAGE 2 (14 TN Thrust)
2:12 - STAGE 3 (3.3 TN Thrust)
2:51 - STAGE 4 (190 GN Thrust, 12,360,359 Tons (27,249,927,065 pounds))
3:33 - STAGE 5 (3.8 GN Thrust, 4,196,119 Tons (8,392,238,000 pounds))
10:25 - STAGE 6 (4.68 GN Thrust, 380,259 Tons (838,327,594 pounds)
11:01 - STAGE 7 (1.87 GN Thrust, 152,906 Tons (337,100,027 pounds))
11:34 - STAGE 8 (52.8 MN Thrust, 20,553 Tons (45,311,609 pounds))
12:31 - STAGE 9-A (867 Kn Thrust, 162 Tons (324,000 pounds))
13:48 - STAGE 9-B (3 Kn Thrust, 40 MW nuclear energy, 13,805 Tons (30,434,815 pounds))
15:01 - STAGE 10 (19.941 MN, 10,085 Tons (22,784,775 pounds))
Awesome, now waiting for The Archive ...
Welp, gotta keep the trend up now, can't wait for Apollo^4
Next time on TD channel, Apollo4!
Approved!
this man must be the most patient person on this planet!
(considering how low the fps (or rather how high the seconds per frame) must be)
The Saturn V space shuttle... was amazing. Magnificent.
respect to the engineer who made that costume....three landing, but oxygen still there.
When you know what mod every part is from you know you have an obsession
This man wiped out entire KSC and Cape Canaveral by pressing one button
It sounds like you're talking about nukes
very nice! i literally have nothing else to say because of the impresiveness of this rocket. can u do apollo4 pls
Apollo to the Fourth Power will just be the rocket touching the moon from the pad.
Appolo2:oh okay, whery cool
Appolo3:apocalypse class nuke
Appol04:☠️
Appol04 you use a small ladder on top of the rocket you are already in space 🤣
Einstein, Newton and literally any other physicist: *commits sudoku*
The switch between rock and classical music is insane.
Looks freaking nuts
As a space engineers player, stage 8 is almost getting within the realm of doable
jesus christ. that's beautiful!
Triple nice!
21:15 is the point where it became unrealistic, because it looks like KSP's wheel physics is actually being a wheel instead of a ski.
i cant imagine how much lag you had to suffer through, how long did the final launch take to actually complete?
The initial launch wasn't too bad, maybe 30 minutes or so. In reality it took longer than that due to many kraken attacks and re-launches.
It’s funny. I found this to be ridiculous, insane, hilarious, awe inspiring, enlightening, inspirational, and even tear jerking, all at the same time.
Man, I have megalaphobia now. In all seriousness great job!
Sooo many engines... feeling reminded of the N1.
13:22 you dropped the most downright despicable transition know to humanity and thought no one would notice
Now were waiting for Apollo to the power of 4
Oh boy can wait for Apollo 4
I’m concerned to see what appolo^4 would look like
A rocket launch so powerful it annihilates states with every launch
when 61 sea dragon engines is "not much thrust"
Nice work. There were some really nice shots in this one.
How many ignitions are the sea dragon's configured for? Are they fully throttleable?
Thank you! It might be a silly rocket but I'll still film it to the best of my abilities.
There are no official RO configs for the SD engines, so I just made them run on the proper fuels - fully throttleable and unlimited ignitions. Which might sound silly but:
- Since all the engines were used in single-part clusters, "throttling" could be achieved in stages of shutting down engines
- Sea Dragons engine is supposed to be relatively simple, literally pressure fed, so making it relightable is maybe possible? Provided the engine can be ignited at all, that is.
Apollo : Saturn V
Apollo² : pancake
Apollo³ : Trafic cone of hell
how to cause a mass extinction event with every launch
The first stage is so ridiculously funny wtffff
I thought i said “Apollo to the power of negative 3” but you know what…
this is more than enough
_"Now this is Pod racing"_
This is completely fucking ludicrous and I love it
Heheheeee! You did it! I didn't think it will be possible after your reply but you did it!!!
Soon the rockets going to be so big that it’ll act as a space elevator
*spends a year in orbit of the moon to avoid the van Allen belts*
*checks out the super cool yellow thing on the engines once landed*
Impressive, Now do apollo 10 :) In all seriousness amazing job! These videos actually blow my mind away
Might as well then bring the Moon to the Apollo program if that's going to happen
At some point I'm just going to have to link Apollo Infinity to people...
Thank you :)
2025: Freedom Rocket: 1000% Reusable Ultra Rocket (All Rockets Combined Together)
my guy just made nasa level calculations just for a funny ksp video
This is a monumentally stupid idea, and very inspiring. Thank you.
What's next, apollo going to the moon and back 1000 times?
Size of rocket is 1 gogolplex light year 💀
You madlad
I hope someday, in some post-scarcity civilization of bored gods, our far flung descendants try stuff like this IRL just because they can
20:00 the most cursed but amazing scene i have ever seen.
this monstrosity is worthy of the name Destroyer
Essentially the madness of the rocket equation in a nutshell.
Amazing Video. Only one question. Are you sure that staying a year in the moons Orbit is better then going through the Van Allen belts slowly?
Absolutely. They would be exposed to the belts for weeks instead of minutes like a fast fly-by.
Background radiation is an issue, but not too bad over just 1 year. Solar flares are more of an issue, but pointing the fuel tank between the sun and landing capsule shields from most of it.
Of course, the safest option would be staying in Earth orbit for a year, then departing to the Moon - but that wasn't necessary.
Mhmm, no question. A full day into the VA belts is the equivalent of 2.5 years in Lunar orbit. While a year around the Moon is not exactly a fun pastime for the whole family, 2-3 weeks inside the belts while spewing tons of brand new radioactive exhaust behind you is a surefire way to grow some new and exciting kind of tumor that no one on Earth has seen before.
Now Apollo^4 is next.
Now we need Apollo^4
EPIC
What about apollo^4?
what mod are those nice big solars from?
let's go for an apollo4, i'm pretty sure the rocket's highest height will be past the karman line because of the height difference from apollo2 and this one