How hard is it to reach the speed of light in ksp?

[Fenceingmadman]

Here is a youtube video where i attempt to reach the speed of light. At first i thought it may be easy to get near it but i was very wrong.

Final speed (with cheats) 3,742,053 m/s

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[Dafni]

35 minutes ago, Fenceingmadman said:

 

Final speed (with cheats) 3,742,053 m/s

 

 

That's 1.25% of the speed of light. Still, not a bad result, everything considered. Congrats.

I never attempted this myself, but IIRC that's the ballpark of the best results people achieved in KSP.

[paul23]

Scott manley has several youtube videos where he crosses the speed of light. Using either sepatrons or physicless parts if you have infinite fuel: since those have highest twr.

[STeven1366]

It's almost impossible to reach speed of light with traditional chemical engine without any cheating

But it's possible via some engines in KSPI

[The Aziz]

With Kraken you can easily go much, much faster, covering lightyears in minutes

[Superfluous J]

Bill once reached several times that in one of my saves just but climbing off a ladder on the Mun.

But yeah 300 is a lot of millions, no matter how you look at it.

[Kernel Kraken]

I remember the Sun spaghetti-fying Jeb and him flinging away at a few million meters/ second but I've never gotten anything to light speed.