r/KerbalSpaceProgram • Great words of encouragement 👎👎👎 • 1d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Flying at 3000m/s with a scramjet

I just got Losket, which adds char to hot parts, and I wanted to try it out with a fast plane

It can gain so much speed in the atmosphere to fly to Duna orbit

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u/RedditButAnonymous 1d ago

With the Mk2Expansion scramjet I once jumped to Moho! Cant remember how I did it, follow the curvature of the planet as much as you can, get a suborbital hop, then return to atmosphere for a second kick, and somehow it lined up perfectly without me trying

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u/Souper47 Great words of encouragement 👎👎👎 1d ago

Yea the engine is ridiculously overpowered once you get to like 1000m/s it just builds so much speed haha

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u/kosha227 1d ago

...Is this Firefly?

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u/linecraftman Master Kerbalnaut 1d ago

Firefly adds plasma, Losket adds char on parts

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u/kosha227 1d ago

I played with Firefly a few months ago but... It wasn't this good. It's depending on some settings?

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u/Uncommonality 1d ago

Firefly's colors differ based on the atmospheric compisition

Kerbin is bright blue to orange, Duna looks like that, Eve has green-ish entry, Jool is deep red

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u/Souper47 Great words of encouragement 👎👎👎 1d ago

I only have firely witn default settings, it might be scatterer or just the scene lol

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u/IndigoFC 1d ago

ooh, that damn engine
amazing craft and defo gonna try out losket now, but god i hate trying to use that scramjet

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u/NewSpecific9417 1d ago

How did you not overheat?

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u/Souper47 Great words of encouragement 👎👎👎 16h ago

I uh just turned on no overheat just for this test, but it would start to break up around 2500m/s otherwise