Has there been a record for most satellites launched in one launch?

[Wizard Kerbal]

I’m Curious.

Has any KSP player taken on the challenge of launching the most satellites in one launch, if so, what is it?

[Kerbart]

If the definition of satellite is "a piece of material in a stable orbit," then I can say that on multiple occasions I've launched hundreds of satellites. Well, a little bit of me, and a little bit of the Kraken.

[Starman4308]

I'm not entirely sure that, by itself, it's an interesting question. It mostly comes down to "how many identical mini-satellites are you willing to put on the same vehicle before you decide KSP was not meant to be a slideshow?" The primary issue is often that going big is usually limited by framerate rather than any aspect of the in-game physics, so it's a matter of patience and possession of high-end hardware moreso than any real skill at KSP.

One excellent entry in the field, however, comes to mind.

 

[Single stage to ocean]

A decoupler and a octo with a solar counts as a probe, which is 3 parts, so the max i believe would be 3000 sats. Again, with settings as low as possible, and laucnh vehicle siplified as much as possible, i think 10000 sats are possible if you use bradley 1 million ton launcher, which could safely launch 200k tons with a terrible pilot. See his last video. Maybe even adding some seperaton deorbit motors is possible. An octo and a solar panel weigh 50 kg together, doubled if an unneed r wheel is added. You could launch a theoretical maximum of 5 million sats on that rocket. Wow! Quickest way to kesslerize kerbin and cause lag even at the ksc, out of physics range. Just writing the names in the part files would take some gigabytes! With r wheels and an dumpling and ant, it increase to 250 kg per sat. that is 1 million sats actually useful ones too! of course, all impossible, even with multiple laucnhes b/c eventually you can't go to orbit without hitting the other sats on the way up, and the game would be unusable way by then b/c it would take so many gigabytes to handle everytihng and their orbits. you wont even be able to load it, and it cant handle simulating the orbits of them all!

Edited May 7, 2021 by Single stage to ocean

[pandaman]

3 hours ago, Kerbart said:

If the definition of satellite is "a piece of material in a stable orbit," then I can say that on multiple occasions I've launched hundreds of satellites. Well, a little bit of me, and a little bit of the Kraken.

My thoughts exactly. 

[Dientus]

Not including discarded or spent parts, and defining satellite as self powered (by solar) and controllable (RC-001s controller) only 4 for me, but now I want to see if I can do a lot more.