KSP: Establishing Geostationary Kerbin Relays AND Mun + Minmus relays in 1 launch! 

Matt: puts sattelite into orbit me: puts an rtg, a battery, and a deployable antenna on all my rocket stages and turn my debri into sattelites

Matt: launches 3 big satellites and 6 medium satellites in 1 launch and around 3 different celestial bodies Me: launch a single satellites that looks like a trash can in a random orbit around Kerbin using a rocket bigger than the Saturn V

*trying to get a perfectly circular orbit* Jebediah:*blows air through straw*

In my Career save, I just do every satellite contract I get. Basically the private sector funds my swarm of relay satellites.

If Kerbals call their moon "the Mun", then shouldn't their sun be called "the Soon"?

My network is just 60 sattelites (Brought by ssto) in random inclined orbits ... Works very well

Matt, your videos are so well made, at the same fun to watch and good for new players....Love ur videos Matt =)

I always get my popcorn ready before watching Matt's ksp video

Keostationary is totally the word that you're looking for, unless you're using some odd planet pack or RSS...

The sight at 10:00 tantalizes me to no end. The symmetry is real. Well done!

I use you for ksp inspiration because I’m terrible at the game.

you can also switch to surface mode and if it`s = 0 m/s -you`re synchronous but it`s hard to do or you can take a calculator

"i strive to make this series at least slightly realistic." 15:08

Challenge!: Go through the Mun Arch from orbit!

Matt: *makes a relay to get more communication* Me: duna rover with seats take it or leave it

I went into this thinking "What the hell, this shit is too complicated" but after a couple of minutes i actually came around and now i understand it very well. Thank you.

Just found your channel by this series, I love it, keep going!

Thanks Matt! You gave me a huge idea for a little change with my Mun colony base that i decided to construct over a few lunches now insted of putting an aray of random useless communication panels on surface i would multitask and make the aray 2 around Mun and 2 around Minmus for a later project as sataliets (and yeah im a begginer but i had already achived interplanetary travel and im just setting up random bases everywhere cause thats neat)

IMO The most efficient way to establish a Kerbin-system relay-network is to place two around Minmus and then place another in the same Kerbin-orbit as Minmus but 180 degrees apart. That way, at least one relay will always be visible, no matter where you are. Even on the far-side of the Mun, as the Mun orbits inside Minmus. It's the same thing with Jool; you don't need relays around every moon. Just put 3 equally-spaced relays in a very high orbit around Jool (I used a distance of 2Gm) so that one is always in the sky; anywhere, on any Jool moon.

This is the one KSP channel that never fails to amaze me!

If you activate "interstage nodes" for your faring, you don't have to build a complex structure with I-beams for multiple payloads within one faring.

Dude. Yesterday I rewatched your first video to get the heights for the sattalites. And today you upload this.

"..So there are no survivors." Mechjeb: Screaming

Sweet...I always seem to learn something new from your video's. Love your vid's...keep up the great work I hope you have a great day & be safe.

long time viewer, videos are getting better and better :)

Very nice video, thank you for this information.

Next video, can you make nuclear shuttle to wherever. Just think it wiuld be cool. Anyway, thank you for not killing me & saving me, love your videos👍

awesome video!

Ooh! I can't wait to watch this! I've been dying to know how to do this for awhile.

You are my favorite carbon based life form

(Incorrect: Geosynchronous matches the speed but is offset of the equator. Geostationary is when it's right on the equator, so the satellite appears to be still from the ground.)

Nice ! now i know more about this . Thank you !

Hey! I saw that poll on Twitter! Also, nice video!

Kennedy center just announced that they're putting on "Matt Lowne's relay networks" in 2020

You are the best man !

I remember trying to make a low minmus orbit space station when docking was first added. Yeah, doing precise burns on minmus is fun.

I have a much easier way of getting to geostationary orbit, just stay on the surface, or if you really want to, use a helicopter.

Great video i love it please keep this up we love it.

"Some of the new parts from Making History" Dang, this is pretty old

i like the vanguard logo that you made ;)

I'd like to see a series of you colonizing the moon's of kerbin

Now I'm kinda wondering if you can make a "number 8" orbit between Kerbin and the Mun somehow... or if that would just become a gravity slingshot by default.

matt lowne, i love your videos!

Hey matt, i have a question. how do you get your wheels perfectly straight on your planes/STTOs? whenever i make one it always goes in a random direction..

Love your videos matt, started play ksp cause of your smart vids. Could you make a relay for the Jool system in 2 launches?

I like it,good!

10:26 "probably not that interesting to watch from a viewer standpoint" yeah right man I see how it is lol. Love your videos current and old!

Such a great game.. Makes me want to hop back in. :D

Usually i do smaller relay says in equatorial orbits and then as i get bigger relays deploy them in a hughly eliptical polar orbit. On other planets outside of kerbin i use a polar relay with small eqatorials for rover control.

First time I set up a relay network, I got everything correct to two decimal places. Only a couple of years later in game time, I lost control of a Minmus fuel tanker because it had no communications - my three satellites were 'clumped' on one half of the moon. Since then, I set everything up to "close enough", then save file hack everything to "exact."

I would love to see a heavily modded series from you. Using life support and MkS.

Is there any advantage for a synchronous orbit if a non-synchronous orbit has complete coverage? Or is it just for the aesthetics? 🤔

Do you have a list of mods that you use and how to install them? Thanks love the videos!

When I do my stationary satellite array, I use 2 extra satellites that go over the poles, opposite to each other in their orbits, very eccentric (3M Km ap, 80KM pe) so I always have coverage of any point on the surface of Kerbin (since purely equatorial will not cover the poles)

1:45 when you realize that one of your rockets can fit into his rocket XD

i`m using the truss structure option of the fairings for that, pretty handy

I just started playing last night. It has been a while since I've played a game that was so complex. Garry's Mod doesn't have to be complex but it was the way I played it, lol. Tracking turrets, tracking rockets, robots that automatically track down players and murder them, cars that drive on walls. One thing I couldn't make is a hovercar using vector thrusters instead of hoverballs, which don't really allow for rolling or pitching.

Very enjoyable. Always good to end a mission with a viking funeral.

Hey guys haven’t played in a long while, has there been anything added to do on planets? Or is it basically still just a goal of unlocking all science and parts through basic research

3 is the minimum for equatorial coverage, btu to include the polar areas you need 3 more in a polar orbit. Those can be in lower orbits, since they dont need to be stationary.

What MOD are you using that allows you to adjust the placement or to shorten the part (without making it smaller by using Tweakablescale)

This reminds me I need to sort out my RemoteTech network. Orbits are a mess as I was very hasty. Remote Tech is great but blimey it's the bane of my KSP life sometimes and I wish I'd stuck with commnet :D

Matt could you make the old shuttle with the current version would love to see that and using it deploying sats

im on console and my approach to this is to be perfectly geostationary where everything is right not really i just put so many sattelites into orbit that im bound to have at least one link

Any good guides to the parts/tools/design principles for the construction phase for this kind of satellite deployer?

@mattlowne A synchronous orbit is just it matches the rotational period of an object, a stationary orbit is it matches the rotational period and is on its equatorial line

Matt, where were you few days ago, when I was making relay and had to google a lot of information about geosynchronous orbits, instead of getting if from one nice video! :angryface:

This was before you narrated fast I like it

You know you have played so much KPS when you keep trying to move the camera with your mouse on a KSP RU-vid video every 5 minutes you see something interesting on screen XD

Is there a reason you didn't use the trust structure for the fairing?

You missed an opportunity for Science!™ I always keep my relay transfer vehicles in orbit to use them as seismic impacters at a later date.

i just used a head of random inclined orbits around the Mun to avoid any collisions. Works well enough for my dumb arse. Also have a relay at each major orbital body like Duna, Jool, Moho, Eve, but havent setup one at Eeloo yet. Thats my next project so i can send a probe/rover. Im very new to KSP but love it so far

You don't need to get the orbital apsides exactly to three decimal places. The important thing is that the periods match; if the eccentricities are a little off, the satellites will librate slightly, but they'll all stay in the same formation.

Can you use basic pats for the 1st stage? Like 7 rhino boosters?

Hi love your videos.

I have an accidental Comsat, I had one in orbit which I was trying to fix, but it exploded and left the dish behind, but it still works so that’s cool

Well ,whenever I use small joints for staging the payload start wobbling and comes out from fairing and crash the rocket

Great video! Meanwhile I’m struggling to land Jeb on the Mun without him meeting his fiery demise..

Isn't the height of your orbit calculated specifically for an equatorial orbit? Anything off from the equator would slow your speed relative to the plane of kerbins rotation, right?

You should find uses for spent parts you don't need anymore. Like the deployment rocket could've been used to go extra stellar as a probe (if the game allows that) or use it as part of a station/base if possible

Matt did you ever do the retrograde sun orbit rescue or was that someone else? Either way its a nice quick challenge lol

Once you've got your 'keostationary' orbit on, what about putting any munar relays in a polar orbit around their relative body?

Hey Matt, how do you switch amoing ships without having to get through the tracking station ? Thanks !

how did you build around the metal structure, i cant find the parts :(

What version of the game are you playing on? I know that KER doesn’t work with 1.4.x, as far as I’m aware, was playing on 0.x before then went to 1.4.1 but found out it was an odd version for modding so upgraded to 1.4.2 but now I’m stuck crashing, so I’m changing mods with mods to try to fix it but doesn’t seem to work to well. Want Kerbal engineer redux tho. Mainly using MJ but there is a bit to much and when using powerful rcs it flips out a bit.

You can work out orbital period in stock by just making a manouever node directly behind you and seeing how long it is till that immediately. Not very accurate though.

I'm currently building a Minmus base and just using the portion that lands the base modules, I'm using those as my Minmus relays, I fly them back up and place them in the same orbit and try to match the Pe, Ap, inclination, and period. Is better than just wasting them right afterwards heh

Hey Matt...idk if youll see this comment but i love your videos. I just got the game last week and its hard with so much content out there to find things im looking for when i dont know their names... The shuttle that you are ferrying these sattelites around in. Do you have a build video for it? I have no idea what its called or how to even look for it, but its a cool delivery system and id like to try it haha! Love your work

Have you brightened the colours during video edit or is this 1.4's colour palette ?

Btw, latest versions of KSP now include much of the functionality of Kerbal Engineer (and Precise Node without mods.

The initial part of the reentry of the mothership sounded like microwave popcorn.

Awesome! Why don't you make a video showing how to establish a relay network for the other planets? I mean, I guess it would require to put some satellites in kerbol orbit, and I don't know where to put them. Thanks!

Superrrrrr gemacht

3:13 amazing

you're like the god of kerbal I can't even build my own mun lander

do you have a video of how to build the rocket and satellite

I actually made an Excel document where I can calculate the synchronous orbit radius, the amount of time the satellite will be on the dark side of the planet (and therefore how much battery it’ll need) and also the encounter distance between the satellites of the synchronous network to use the maneuver planner to properly put each one in place. All of this is calculated pretty much with the distance of the planet to the star it orbits (Kerbol), the radius of the planet and its mass. I’m also working on expanding this “program” to include any possible eclipses the satellite might go through eventually and so far all the math seems correct and I’m really proud of it. I also included these calculations for a spacecraft orbiting a satellite body such as the Mün, but unless we’re talking about orbiting Laythe the difference of time seems rather small.

What I've found is the 2G relays are sufficient for all the moons and 15G are perfect for orbit around the main planet. For my kerbin constellation, I replaced one of the relays with a mega-relay (4 100G's, so the total power is ~282G); this mega-relay is placed in geostationary orbit directly opposite the tracking center. That way, regardless where we are in the solar system, our 15G relays orbiting the main planet have a comm link to either the 250G tracking center or the 282G mega-relay. These 15G relays can then beam the signal to the surrounding moons. If I were really picky, I could replace the other two 15Gs around kerbin with 282G mega relays (in case the moon or minmus or sun were blocking the signal from reaching another planet) but it works pretty well.

Im too gonna start a ksp channel once i reach Toronto next year!

I have a question to ask How do u refuel ships I have no idea how I'm stranded in Orbit with a Tanker ;-; Plz respond ;-;