Can You Use Escape Pods to Get to Space in Kerbal Space Program?



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43 thoughts on “Can You Use Escape Pods to Get to Space in Kerbal Space Program?”

  1. I was expecting the missile that came crashing down (cause that's obviously what it was) to just clip into the ground. Or explode. Then it just went donk! and was… anticlimactic.
    Thanks for the video!

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  2. Lower the throttle on the LES (not possible irl but in kerbal you can) to reduce drag losses from going to fast in a thick atmosphere (you can leave the upper stages at full throttle because that reduces gravity losses. And try to make it as taper from top to bottom and as thin as possible to reduce drag

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  3. Why is nobody talking about the fact that the Launch Escape Tower part has 5 thrusters: 4 pointing up and one pointing to the side. the one on the very top (so it has a lot of torque)
    it is intended design for the escape tower to pull the pod up and away from the rocket but also off to one side so as to minimize the chances of the rocket colliding with the pod

    that's why you got the rotations
    that's why your last stage always veered to one side

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  4. I guess the launch escape system was designed to survive anything, both imaginable and unimaginable. I mean, a launch escape system wouldn't be very good if it broke under high speeds, considering it's expected to deal with something going wrong during a launch.

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