Once you're successfully docked though the result is very gratifying. When you're a few metres apart the magnetic locks will kick in and dock your modules together. Make sure you hit capslock for fine controls. Now turn around until your prograde marker lines up with your target marker and move slowly towards it. Now the speed indicates the difference between you and your target. In docking mode you can switch between rotational controls and translational controls with space bar. Now if you still have a rocket engine attached it's time to ditch it, moving around with RCS is easier if you're lighter. I did this four times before I got an intercept that was less than a kilometre from my target. You may want to do this multiple times until the orbits are perfectly aligned.
Once you've got a good intercept, set a manoeuvre node at the intercept and try to match orbits as closely as possible. If your target is ahead of you pick a lower orbit, if it's behind you pick a higher one.) (If you're not very close to your target you don't want to match orbits as close as possible, because you'll never get an intercept. Set a manoeuvre node at apoapsis and try to get an intercept that is as close to your target as possible, while also trying to get a nice circular orbit.
At apoapsis, if you launched at the right time you should be a little ahead of your target, but it's fine if you're not. Now launch as normal and get your apoapsis at the altitude of your target. Timing your launch right will save you a lot of time later. You'll want to launch a little before your target comes up on the horizon, so check the anti-marker for your target on your navball and launch just before it disappears. I also read that you'll want a regular SAS module and not an advanced one, as the advanced one makes too many adjustments and gets in the way of your manoeuvring.īefore you launch go to orbit mode and target your module already in orbit. Also, if you're not very good at this, like I am, you might want to bring a large battery or solar panels, because it will be a while before you can hook up with your target. Make sure you have the RCS rockets with the 4 exhausts attached to your module and fuel to support it. Just performed my first in-orbit docking.
Anyways, its on its way to Eve now with only an ion engine and way too much weight for it, so i dont know if i will actually manage to get into orbit or just overshoot the planet. Center of mass is just way off, so you cant just let the thing fly, you have to course correct all the time as soon as you hit the thrust. Also my asymmetrical design kills the fun since you always have to correct flight path. I tried to build something Pioneer 10 like with a big radar dish, turns out it was hell of a hassle to get it out of atmosphere. Show some pics if you successfully docked If you watch both you should be fine i guess, wether method you chose to do and appeals best Or this one, its a bit different to the first one where interception course is explained a bit better, but actual interception is somehow made more complicated. The dudes voice is kinda annoying, but its explained quite well Good thing it was only an unmanned probe. Before I knew it I was heading strait toward the planet surface in a ball of fire and not enough thrust on my rocket to get me back out again. Turns out the atmosphere of Eve is like soup. I needed to lose 1200 m/s to get a 100 km high orbit, which would cost me almost all my fuel, so I aimed for a periapsis of 50 km, giving me enough atmospheric thickness to slow me down, or so I assumed. Now, I did come in pretty steep, so I thought I'd be smart and use Eve's atmosphere to aero brake, so I would have enough fuel to manoeuvre into my desired orbit. Having had my success with a retrograde parking orbit around Kerbin, I thought I'd shoot for Eve with the same satellite / rocket layout and surprisingly had a successful encounter on the first try. I've only just got my first satellite around Moho, but sadly did not have enough fuel left to dump the main interplanetary engine on the planet, so it's still in orbit somewhere. Today, I decided it was time to visit the other planets, but whoa, this is a lot, lot harder. Yesterday I put satellites in orbit around Kerbin, the Mun and Minmus.
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