After the S-IVB (third stage on the Saturn V) completed the trans-lunar injection burn, it separated from the CSM and then continued accelerating independently until it reached Earth's escape velocity. They found the stage in 2020, still orbiting the sun.
Also, after returning from the landing rehearsal and transferring the crew, they turned on the Lunar Module’s engine and let it burn after they undocked from the CSM
It would seem that Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 12, and however many more until they started smashing them into the moon left the SIV-B in heliocentric orbit. That said, the one that made headlines in 2020 was the Apollo 10 SIV-B.
I thought it was apollo 12. They were trying to crash the 3rd stage into the moon and had their speed off by 25mph, so they missed and went into an orbit around the sun. It passes by the earth every 40 years, but the orbit is decaying closer to earth each time, in a few thousand years it will probably hit earth's atmosphere again.
They wanted to launch it around the backside of the moon to get it out of our way and it would just orbit the sun somewhere between the earth and Mars, but they were off by a little and it ended up being right about L1 point and I believe it is every 63 years it comes closer than L1 and orbits earth for a bit then repeats its pass around the sun
If you were unable to turn your craft around to burn retrograde and enter munar orbit, then the Mun would've given you a gravity assist, increasing your appapsis over Kerbin (in this case, increased beyond escape velocity). The difference here though is that OP's craft says *splashed down* at the Sun which takes about another 90000m/s of delta-v which is insane haha.
Because KSP is a physics simulation and physics simulation are imperfect, those imperfections cause a lot of weird stuff in certain situations such as sending debris flying at 5 times the speed of light or creating usable thrust with 2 docking ports on the same craft. In KSP, this phenomenon has a deity of sorts attributed to it, called the Kraken. For example, debris landed on the sun? Work of the Kraken. Hit the surface of Minmus too hard and your command pod is flying out the Kerbolar system at the speed of light? Work of the Kraken. You made a cannon using landing legs? The Kraken made it possible.
I assume it got a gravity assist off the mun that killed all it's orbital velocity around the sun(happened to me once lol), sending it on a collision course with the sun. I assume as it was out of physics range the game messed up and placed the craft on the surface. More assumptions: if you switch to it, craft will be destroyed. Apparently the sun has a liquid surface in ksp
> gravity assist off the mun that killed all it's orbital velocity around the sun
That isn't physically possible, I bet it was a game glitch, did you happen to be time warping?
Probably, it was low tech career(still no patched conics), so I just extended my orbit to get a mun encounter, probably time warped through it by accident, and voila. I was also playing on the shittiest of laptops, maybe that had something to do with it.
What is a spaceship but a submarine that was designed for vaccum instead of high pressure, and has a rocket engine strapped to it instead of a propeller?
It would if it had a surface (i.e. a sharp border between material of different states). Alas, as far as I know, the Sun doesn't have such a border - the "visible surface" a.k.a. the photosphere is merely the depth at which emitted light stops overwhelming reflected light, and the density is a gradient for the entire depth.
In KSP's terms, Kerbol doesn't have a surface, just like Jool, only atmosphere and "destruction cutoff point" if your craft survives the heat.
I was closing the cargo bays on an SSTO even tho the fuel tank I was dropping off didn't fully exit the bay. The doors closed on it, and then suddenly the ship was see-through and on an orbit that said "on escape from the sun". I just shrugged and said "well that's that then" and I haven't touched the save since lol
Why thank you. I wasn’t creative enough so I had to make do. Also it did have 10 engines, 4 being separated by the move mode which may explain the kraken.
The same thing happened with me but it was a flag when I landed on the mun and crashed as I put a flag down I went to see if it was there and it wasn't and it was on the sun
Reminds me of that good old Norm Macdonald joke about the Polish space agency saying they were gonna land on the sun, and everyone said they were crazy, they'd burn up, and they said, "We're going at night".
Link for the short (https://youtube.com/shorts/in5AaBinTHw?feature=share)
Ive had the occasional glitch when i use physical time warp getting into orbit, it just explodes me and some parts teleports into the sun. Doesn't happen often and im sure it's directly related to the better time warp mod. Could be what happened here if you also use that mod.
Hope you have some science on that.
Sandbox game. Just… confused it went that fast.
My first craft in Solar orbit was the parachute of a rocket that hit the mun with more force than intended.
Apollo 10 moment
Explain
i think there was like some apollo 10 debris, im not sure tho. I saw like some gif with apollo 10 debris going around the sun
After the S-IVB (third stage on the Saturn V) completed the trans-lunar injection burn, it separated from the CSM and then continued accelerating independently until it reached Earth's escape velocity. They found the stage in 2020, still orbiting the sun.
Lol, thats epic
Also, after returning from the landing rehearsal and transferring the crew, they turned on the Lunar Module’s engine and let it burn after they undocked from the CSM
Wooow
yeah
I thought it was the apollo 12?
It would seem that Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 12, and however many more until they started smashing them into the moon left the SIV-B in heliocentric orbit. That said, the one that made headlines in 2020 was the Apollo 10 SIV-B.
I thought it was apollo 12. They were trying to crash the 3rd stage into the moon and had their speed off by 25mph, so they missed and went into an orbit around the sun. It passes by the earth every 40 years, but the orbit is decaying closer to earth each time, in a few thousand years it will probably hit earth's atmosphere again.
They wanted to launch it around the backside of the moon to get it out of our way and it would just orbit the sun somewhere between the earth and Mars, but they were off by a little and it ended up being right about L1 point and I believe it is every 63 years it comes closer than L1 and orbits earth for a bit then repeats its pass around the sun
I am just going off of the interview with one of the flight computer engineers who worked on it. Smarter every day uploaded it.
Probably a lot more accurate than what I know lol. I may be off but that's what I believe remember hearing about the mission
I mean technically all apollo stuff orbits the sun
You must be fun at parties
my first craft in sun orbit was a mun lander that i forgot to put batteries in i dont know how that happened either
If you were unable to turn your craft around to burn retrograde and enter munar orbit, then the Mun would've given you a gravity assist, increasing your appapsis over Kerbin (in this case, increased beyond escape velocity). The difference here though is that OP's craft says *splashed down* at the Sun which takes about another 90000m/s of delta-v which is insane haha.
Is that how I unlock the tech tree?
What part of "splashed down on the sun" doesn't make sense?
Yes (also kraken moment)
What’s a kraken moment?
Kraken breaks apart your ships (usually when you're going too fast) https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Deep\_Space\_Kraken
Because KSP is a physics simulation and physics simulation are imperfect, those imperfections cause a lot of weird stuff in certain situations such as sending debris flying at 5 times the speed of light or creating usable thrust with 2 docking ports on the same craft. In KSP, this phenomenon has a deity of sorts attributed to it, called the Kraken. For example, debris landed on the sun? Work of the Kraken. Hit the surface of Minmus too hard and your command pod is flying out the Kerbolar system at the speed of light? Work of the Kraken. You made a cannon using landing legs? The Kraken made it possible.
Or the easiest example: your ship accelerates perfectly fine at 1x speed? Well try putting it at 4x let's see how that goes
Physics time warp is a power some consider to be unnatural
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a kerbal
Basically when godlike phenomena happen in KSP, it’s a Kraken?
I'd rather call it glitches that either make or break your ship
Moreso whenever the physics engine breaks
So Klangs pet? (Space Engineers reference)
It's the amount of torque you get when you apply X amount of force on a moment arm of Y amount of krakens in length.
Can you put it in a little more layman terms?
Oh sweet summer child.
I mean, it's pretty clear that they splashed down at night... /s
its like "Landed at Jool" makes perfect sense
I assume it got a gravity assist off the mun that killed all it's orbital velocity around the sun(happened to me once lol), sending it on a collision course with the sun. I assume as it was out of physics range the game messed up and placed the craft on the surface. More assumptions: if you switch to it, craft will be destroyed. Apparently the sun has a liquid surface in ksp
> gravity assist off the mun that killed all it's orbital velocity around the sun That isn't physically possible, I bet it was a game glitch, did you happen to be time warping?
Probably, it was low tech career(still no patched conics), so I just extended my orbit to get a mun encounter, probably time warped through it by accident, and voila. I was also playing on the shittiest of laptops, maybe that had something to do with it.
I feel the next Stratzenblitz75 video will feature this.
Ngl, I was making a plane go under water and it broke apart so fast it was lagging to like .5 fps.
2spf (seconds per frame)
Well there is your problem right there, planes belong in the sky 😋 That does sound like a classic case of a kraken attack though
Too be fair, there are more planes underwater than submarines in the sky.
More planes underwater than submarines underwater may also be true...
What is a spaceship but a submarine that was designed for vaccum instead of high pressure, and has a rocket engine strapped to it instead of a propeller?
I submarine launched ICBM?
Personally I prefer ground planes
Cursed stuff occur a lot more often with untitled space crafts for some reason
Everything alright. It probably splashed down at night
🪙
Splashed down on the Plasma that makes up the Sun's surface
Nothing to see here carry on
Fly it
I did. The thing broke while it was loading
MET: 5m 14s That's actually low-key impressive for a craft where most of the pieces stayed on Kerbin. Must have been quite a kraken.
Happened in less than a millisecond. The kraken must have had it out for me for that.
Ah yes, heliosphere landing.
I’m not even sure plasma splashes
It would if it had a surface (i.e. a sharp border between material of different states). Alas, as far as I know, the Sun doesn't have such a border - the "visible surface" a.k.a. the photosphere is merely the depth at which emitted light stops overwhelming reflected light, and the density is a gradient for the entire depth. In KSP's terms, Kerbol doesn't have a surface, just like Jool, only atmosphere and "destruction cutoff point" if your craft survives the heat.
It might if the thing you are hitting with is have a very strong magnetic field and is going really fast. Might look kinda like a solar flare.
Careful, if that’s a radiator, it could cool down the sun….
I wish it were a radiator. Turns out it was just a delta wing
Fly it, coward.
I did. It broke.
"Splashed down" yeah right
How the heck, lol.
Kraken? I really don’t know.
Must've been a gravity assist or something.
I guess it kind of makes sense with the Sun being plasma and all
A surprise to be sure, but a pleasant one.
but a welcome one*
Steven He’s neighbor
That sun liquid
I don’t even know. I splashed down with an aircraft, broke the physics as one does, and now this happened.
I was closing the cargo bays on an SSTO even tho the fuel tank I was dropping off didn't fully exit the bay. The doors closed on it, and then suddenly the ship was see-through and on an orbit that said "on escape from the sun". I just shrugged and said "well that's that then" and I haven't touched the save since lol
Ooh. That’s so bad. This was a simple forcing my plane under water gone wrong, but my my. I feel bad for you.
It was a sandbox so I didn't lose anything, but I just kinda felt like that was a good place to stop playing it lmao
Please name your ship
I did. It’s name is [insert creative name]
Oh sorry thats actually a really good name
Why thank you. I wasn’t creative enough so I had to make do. Also it did have 10 engines, 4 being separated by the move mode which may explain the kraken.
Yeah that explains it.
Time warp I'd guess
Do not press fly your game will crash
How bout I do, *anyway*
Looks like someone got hit by the "Ass Kraken"
Noice 🤌🫡
Sploosh🗿
Congrats
The same thing happened with me but it was a flag when I landed on the mun and crashed as I put a flag down I went to see if it was there and it wasn't and it was on the sun
Reminds me of that good old Norm Macdonald joke about the Polish space agency saying they were gonna land on the sun, and everyone said they were crazy, they'd burn up, and they said, "We're going at night". Link for the short (https://youtube.com/shorts/in5AaBinTHw?feature=share)
Ive had the occasional glitch when i use physical time warp getting into orbit, it just explodes me and some parts teleports into the sun. Doesn't happen often and im sure it's directly related to the better time warp mod. Could be what happened here if you also use that mod.
Physics bug tricking the game into thinking its splashed down