Going to DUNA for the first time! KSP Tutorial 

This is kinda how I went to Duna! The only difference is that my landing legs broke and Bob is still there....

That weird, glowing tree is why you don't dump nuclear engines in the atmosphere.

it feels so satisfying landing back on Kerbin when you landed on a celestial body

9:23 “ I recommend just play around with your self “ - Matt Lowne

I literally just loaded up KSP thinking "I think we should try to go to Duna for the first time today."

Make a space plane that can sniff into Jool's atmosphere, collect science from low and high atmosphere, and return back to kerbin. That would be pretty unusual mission Matt 👀👀

How to duna (Scandinavian style): 1. Attach wood-paneled cockpit to thruster (unreliable is better) 2. Build nuke under rocket 3. Duna.

You are like bob Ross. Nobody knows how to do this, but they enjoy watching you do it.

I love how this is smaller than my mun mission rocket (however I did eject some fuel tanks half full)

Thanks to this tutorial, I accomplished two milestones: landing on Duna and docking in orbit! Thank you so much! And maybe next you could do a mission to Tylo? No pressure though. I’m just happy that Lowne Aerospace 2 the Second One exists!

Me: “I think I can do this!” Also me: **rams strait into Duna** “Close enough”

Letting a nuclear engine explode in the admosphere of kerbin. "Look at the nice firework!" I'm sure nothing bad will come from letting nuclear debris rain down on the planet. XD

I say Moho or Dres. With Dres, try to take an asteroid from its orbit back to Minmus.

Matt: Wow, nuclear engines really are resilient- The Blunderbirds: Against the herds!

Me: hey I might be able to do this. Matt: were going to be doing a lander and command module rendezvous Me: aannddd never mind

Maybe I can use this to finally reach the Mun

I don't think I've ever been as addicted to a game as this one.

i have to say Matt, this is my favourite channel with KSP content. I love the imagination and fun that goes into your creations.

I did a direct mission without rendezvous, so its fair to say my lander was just a tiny bit bigger lmao. It can go from low kerbin orbit all the way to duna's surface and back to kerbin surface.

Yes! Thank you! I SUCK at going to duna

Glad to see I'm not the only one that forgets the parachutes. 🤪 I even have a vessel design named "Chute Delivery", which is basically a klaw (+ Mk I pod) with a lot of parachutes... 😁

This video couldn't have come out at a better time. I'm trying to do my first Duna mission and this is extremely helpful.

Oh wow this looks easy and fun! Can't wait to do it! **later** It's been one fucking year, I accidentally crashed the lander into the spacecraft killing the 2 back in the spacecraft. And I got myself stuck in a orbit around the sun with no chance of escape.

Can't wait for KSP 2's addition of bases. Imagine how exciting that would be, launching off of Kerbin, ready to fly over to Duna, but getting to stop at your interplanetary station to refuel. That'd be so cool!

Over 200 hours in KSP and i've only been able to achieve one landing on Duna (but couldn't take of) and sent rovers to every planet and moon. You make it look so easy when in reality it is so hard! Great work!

There's a reason I watch these things over n over again. I JUST heard the "docking ports can be used like decouplers" bit... That opens up a LOT of designs. Thank you! Ps, just did my first successful docking of a lander/tug launched separately! Again, thank you for your missions n tutorials!!

Bob won’t stop until he’s gone to every hot tourist destination

Seeing as the chapters aren't working here are the Timestamps!: Build: 0:01 Explaining how to get to Duna:5:47 Launch: 6:02 Duna Arrival: 11:07 Duna Descent:13:34 Duna Ascent: 16:13 Kerbin Reentry:22:34 To help anyone who comes still! also, you could add these to the description to get chapters

I've been having a hard time going to Duna in the past, now I finally have the knowledge to build a rocket that gets me there

" A little bit of James Bond manoeuver" What is he talking about? Ho... I see! That was a really epic return! I swear I wouldn't even think about a personal parachute landing myself! I think it's the most valuable tuto in this tuto! Epic!

I Duna believe this. Finally, the mission I was waiting for. Thank you.

I learn something ever time I watch one of these videos. I love the idea of using the extra fuel tanks to not only provide more fuel, but also give the landing gear something to make the landing base wide. In only the first 30 seconds of the vid.

“Always smile and you will die” - Jebediah Kerman

For those of you that are following this two years later, mind the distance that kerbin is from duna when you arrive at duna. I went to separate the lander from the mothership and couldn't create a maneuver node. I thought I forgot the antenna. Only when I put jeb in the lander and I couldn't create a maneuver node with the mothership did the light bulb go off and I opened the map screen and noticed kerbin was almost 80 degrees ahead of duna. I put the kerbals to "bed" and timewarped to test to see if distance was the issue. It was. As soon as kerbin came around the sun and started getting closer to Duna, my connection to the KSC returned and I was able to go about the mission, haven't completed it yet, but yeah. Time to break from this series and go build a Comm Sat Network somewhere.

Lowne aerospace... A much better name would be LOWNE AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION ( if you are a government agency)

I didn't necessarily follow this series as I played ksp, but it certainly helped me design my rockets and helped me get better at rocket design in general :) Thanks to you I managed to finish the tech tree for the first time ever just the other day

Do Moho next. It gets so little love.

Thank you so much this was the first time I got out of Kerbin and to and to another body 😊

11:40 They're actually incorrect when they say 70 km maximizes the Oberth effect anyway. The ideal altitude for a Duna transfer (the gateway orbit) is 7.78 Mm. DV from there to Duna is only 650 m/sec, whereas it's 1,080 m/sec from 70 km. The cost of going to a higher Kerbin orbit is partially offset by the reduced DV to Duna. Starting from 80km instead of 70km only costs an additional 11 m/sec. 90 km costs 21 m/sec. 100 km costs 32 m/sec. That's chump change; easily worth it for the safety factor. Plus, cosine losses are reduced for weak engines. *TL/DR: Do what Matt Lowne said. *

This man is so experienced ive been playing this game for over a year now but I was so sacred to send kerbals to the surface do to not enough fuel but now I feel confident enough, Thanks Matt! I've also been watching you for roughly a year now too!

Grian+MumboJumbo+KSP=ThisGuy

Thank you Matt - I just did after 465+ hours my FIRST LEGIT TRIP AND BACK :D I'm very excited! Every time I have done it before I have used cheats - but now: ONLY QUICKSAVES! And not only that, I modified the rocket for design purposes and you know... 'chutes for command pod when I landed on Kerbin :P

KSP: A Matt: I forgot the parachutes

I remember when I forgot to add a decoupler to my mun lander and capsule, Jeb bailed out and smacked at the ground at 14 m/s, he survives! What a blessing Kraken.

Great video matey! I like the addition of the mission progress bar at the bottom. Protip: There's no need to add fuel lines for the strap-on boosters if you 'Enable Crossfeed' on the radial decouplers. Your main engine/s will usually be guzzling fuel faster than the booster engines, so the booster tanks should empty first. Unless you're the kind of player who feels that using tweakables like crossfeed or autostrut is "cheating", in which case you can use external fuel lines.

An amazing tutorial! However, not very amazing KSP skills from me.... Had an amazing first half of the mission, landed in the perfect spot and got a flag. But i ended up using my nuclear engines for getting into LKO, i think my gravity turn must have been off, because i barely got to orbit with as little fuel as you did. And so of course, i did a terrible job docking and had barely any fuel. ended up using infinite fuel for the rest of the video. I also ended up accidentally bringing 4 Kerbals, but everybody survived re-entry somehow. The one thing i can say is, there is a reason the first mun landing I did didn't have a separate lander! Oh and by the way, I think a good tutorial would be like "Ways to save fuel in KSP" or "How to fly more efficiently in KSP"

+Matt, How do you even get such ideas to build landers. I spend hours designing one still end up with a crappy design.....

Thank you so much for this Matt, opened up a whole new avenue to the game beyond Kerbin's moons!

This mission led to one of the most epic comebacks ever haha Playing career mode - Scientist doesn't have SAS. Soo i lift off of Duna (im a total noob at docking WITH SAS) I somehow manage to dock to the main ship, without SAS, only using RCS, without ever going into an orbit with the lander. Finally i came back to Kerbin with ! 54 DeltaV ! left haha Thanks for this :D

cross-feeding fuel tanks with multiple boosters is about the most advanced rocket building technique i know. it can get me to the mun, minmus, and back, but it's become more evident to me that if i want to explore the rest of the solar system, i need to up my rocket building game.

I think I know how Elon musk lands his falcon 9 boosters I think he uses mechjeb

A very nice video (and mission) Matt, I have about 200 hours in ksp now, and except from a couple of one-way probes have only been to the mun and min, so this is going to be quite helpful. :-) As for docking, I generally can do it, but I always struggle with the RCS control keys, they just don't feel natural to me. Personally I think I would find it much easier if activating RCS would disable the regular engines and free up the wasd+qe and shift/ctrl for the control, I'm probably just weird :-) But, you can do this without actually docking in Duna orbit. "just" get the lander within 150 m or so, have Bob eva, grab the science and then rcs-fly him (now with wasd controls) to the mothership and head home. If you stuck a cheap probe-core on the lander you could then deorbit it as well, only loosing a bit of left-over fuel. Question: Why do so few people seem to use the Experiment Storage Unit? It took a while for me as well, but the ability to just right-click and collect all science from the experiments on a vessel is so nice, yes you still need to eva to reset the goo and material bay, but if placed properly you can reach them without letting go from the hatch. As for next target, Jool or Eeloo could be nice as those targets would also give a reason for you to show/explain a bit about antenna range...

For your next destination you could go to Eeloo, Dres or Moho, any of Jool's moons (except for Laythe) would also be nice to see.

New to the channel; but still managed to binge watch like all of your KSP content! Your builds are amazing, I really hope you keep this going

Thanks for the tutorial, my dad said I can get one of the dlc's if I got to all of the planets.

I just love your enthusiasm

Yeah, still trying to land on the Mun and be able to come back lol

*James Bond Music* Jeb: "Bill, Bob, grab all the science you can!" Bill & Bob: "alright!" Jeb: "3... 2... 1... JUMP!" *James Bond music intensifies* *parachute noise* Jeb: "Good job, boys."

"Low Tech Mission" *Uses Nuclear Powered Craft*

I always have the experiment storage on the craft with a small decoupler and a chute. That way if I do forget chutes on the main pod, I can just decouple the storage and all my science data falls safely back to the ground and I don't have to try and collect all the stuff manually before reentry. I can just focus on getting the Kerbals on the ground.

Finally a Duna Tutorial! Could you do a Jool Flyby with a probe in the next video?

Had a pair of curious coincidences with this video today. KSP crashed in the middle of a test flight of a ship which wasn't meant to come back to Kerbin. I used its high drag and what little TWR it had to slow down, then bailed out when the altitude started to get a bit low. Fussing with the same ship's launcher, I couldn't seem to get the 2nd stage to have the right TWR; 1 Vector was not enough, 2 were too much. (I only play sandbox.) While watching this, I saw the Mainsail, looked up engines in the wiki, and made myself a note to fit the Mainsail just before Matt started talking about it.

For more than a year, the three of us in the volume of several telephone boxes. It's cruel.

Funnily enough, I finished a Duna mission a few days ago, in a similar rendez-vous setup. I also forgot parachutes on the main capsule. Thankfully, I had a lot of fuel and an engineer, so I just repacked my lander parachutes, docked the lander to the ship, and brought the whole stack back

Matt will you ever build that space station around the magic asteroid?

19:54 "And allowed to crash safely into the surface" -Matt Lowne 2019

What is it that enables SAS to work on the lander even though there's only a Scientist present?

Matt: doesn't want to leave space debris also Matt: dumps nuclear engine in Kerbin atmosphere

Sup, oh wait it’s Saturday all ready?

Imagine if Matt did like, a live version of one of these. I'd watch 100%

You woke me up it’s 5 am.. Thank you.

Docking was one of the bane of my existence. But Matt is right, trial and error and a certain scot manley video is the way to learn.

Why am I sure that even though its as simple as possiblew im gonna crash it?

I know you don't want to use the DLC parts, but a folding-wing Jool glider would be a pretty cool mission. The kerbal glides into the atmosphere, takes science, and then rockets back out to head home.

[Everyone liked that] Edit: I GOT A HEART OMG THANK YOU MATT!

Just recreated this nearly exactly in ksp 2! Apart from some science modules and rotations, and size of stuff like science junior, its all pretty much recreated, apart from the fact that all the modules burnt up in the duna atmosphere and I crashed into the ground at 2km/s (the engine is too weak to slow you down from orbit without aerobraking 100 times)

Do an Eve mission

This time I didn't have any problems with your design since I used a stronger ascend stage. I only had to do my duna circulisation, course corrections and the duna escape burn with the nuclear engine

The rocket is so over engineered for a Duna trip. Good for beginners tho.

Instructions unclear bob is now straned on duna with no landing legs

Hello! Why I am here so early?

Matt, thank you I have finally reached another planet and back thanks to you, keep up the content

Try sending somthing to the Kerbin Mercury equivalent. That would be cool! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I made a Duna Rover a couple of days ago, but one of the guys from my AIAA Discord got me to attempt a mission to Duna. I'll be sending a return vehicle, a Duna HAB, and the Duna Rover. This will be interesting. I think this tutorial will help out a lot.

It’s sad when that rocket is smaller than my satellite rockets for a relay system

You don't need actual fuel lines. You can use fuel flow priority. With the added benefit that your spent boosters keep generating thrust until you want to stage them. Meaning that if you're a few seconds late, you get a nice TWR increase to compensate for your mass ratio decrease. Decouplers on radial boosters should pretty much always have crossfeed enabled with priority settings on the tanks if you want to optimize performance.

1:24 i... okay... *internally dies*

This tutorial is how I landed on Duna the first time. 50 days getting there, few days there, 50 days back. Enabled infinite propellant because I didn’t have enough Delta V for the return. Second run, 100 getting there, 100 days orbiting while waiting for a transfer window because I didn’t have enough Delta V to gun it, 70 days back. I think my problem was the burn I was doing to get a Duna encounter, was also getting a nice equatorial orbit around Duna which I believe used more Delta V than required, so next time I think I’ll do the correction burns to get a nice periapsis while I’m in interplanetary space instead of around Kerbin’s gravity.

MATT! At 8:14 ish you talked about the mastadon engine and how you prefer it over the mainsail. The mainsail is actually better! It has higher thrust and higher Isp! Use the mainsail!

I couldn’t get enough science to unlock nuclear engines and get all the other stuff Matt uses at the same time so here I am, launching a gigantic ship in a ton of segments in like 8 different launches to get to duna.

Good video, but you forgot one thing about docking, since it is for beginners. It's in that part where you were explaining how to double click on docking port and using a "target node. Their pilots won't be probably able to execute such maneuver (it requires level 3 or 4 pilot), so it requires an advanced autopilot module or (in my opinion best choice for begginers with lower level tech tree stuff) at least fly by wire module. Just keep in mind, that fly by wire IS NOT an command unit, it just enhance them. It still requires autopilot unit or real pilot with command pod.

geez its 5 in the mornin matt now i have to watch this

NEXT MISSION IDEA - Go to Dres and land at the poles or the canyon. You could do that with ease whilst advising beginners to land somewhere easy near the equator. It'll provide useful tips for beginners on how to adjust for different inclinations during orbital transfers and whilst arriving at a planet.

i can say from experience... trial and error works the best on how to figure out how ksp works, try untill you find your way and only then look at how others deal with the problem then youll always have a plan b if the borrowed way wouldnt work for you

I've sent probes and orbital scanners to Duna and next I'm working on sending Kerbals. But I feel that sending them to another planet locked in a capsule for the duration would be mistreatment. So working on building a small station that will include a landing craft that I would like to be useable. Figure if I go that distance I'd want to explore more a few spots. I may have made my mission too complicated. So it's nice to see your video as a reminder that it's okay to go the simple route the first time.

I have 3 landers and 3 kerbals stuck on Duna because i didn't build in enough Delta V. One of them can even refine ore to fuel, but it only has enough fuel to hop about 10K. You make it look easy

Thanks to this year old video, I successfully landed a probe on duna and got a satellite to orbit Ike on my first-ish interplanetary mission

my interest in ksp was wavering for a bit because of a few failed mun landing attempts but I finally made it without exploding so my interest is sparked again

Ok, thanks for the help! :) My only duna mission had these flaws, Not enough delta V to get home. Not enough delta V to asend from duna. The command pod got stuck inside the heat shield And jeb died

It's funny. I have recently been doing missions where I try to launch to and return from Duna by the earliest ingame date possible, so I always put my plane change/tweaking node at Kerbol Periapsis. But of course instead of being inside Moho's orbit like a kerbinday 1-to-kerbinday 170 transfer, the Periapsis is at launch, which means you can't do it that way.