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Ok, i did manage to recover some active flights by using an SFS file, i just had to restart the game. I only lost one active flight, but i can live with that.

Tried to use some of those SFS files in the backup directory, but they hold no flights that i look for. Weird, they do hold a flight from a very early stage, even though the time/date of the SDS file is from last night.

Played KSP yesterday after installing the docking alignment mod. Had no issues during evening, did some dockings, launched a few rockets. Today however, when i loaded my savegame it came up with a load of messages saying i was missing parts. Now all my vessels in orbit are gone. I can still load them in the hangar though. I would like to get my orbital vessels back, is there any hope? The error struck me as odd, the only mod i had was the alignment mod, nothing else. I have a link to my logfile in case anyone would like to take a look. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bykd02gzixj9es1/output_log.txt?dl=0

May be, but the eye wants something as well. And if it is entertaining, it can be very usefull.

Thanks for the replies! At least i am not the only one. It can be really annoying for sure. After all this time, i am finally able to dock without any issues, it became routine. But then i found this bug lol.

Dear readers, I keep on getting issues with maneuver nodes. I have made a little movie, check if you like. The blue indicator on the navball is drifting heavily and this happens quite a lot. The only thing that seems to help is to just wait till it stops. Quitting the game also does not always help. I am not sure this is a kerbal bug or my pc just acting up.

Congratulations!! Very very well done.

I have had the same amount of crashes before i started installing mods. Really, i have a round 150mb of crashreports since i bought KSP. I had removed the plugins before, but noticing no difference, i put them back into KSP. But i guess that is a different topic? KSP crashes on the most simple actions, screenshot, moving back to the space center. Even when i just load a rocket it crashes. After about 4 tries in an evening, i usually call it a day. Also noticed on one occassion a radio dish was gone from my station after restarting KSP. I noticed the dish floating at a distance after i logged in again.

On the retry (after restarting the game) i did not get the same problem. Made an almost same maneuver again, but this time it worked again like i was used to, weird! Hope this does not happen too often. I did not even uninstall the lazer cam mod. (i love that camera by the way) KSP is still in development, i realise that. I notice a lot of problems with KSP, but mostly it is just crashing to desktop. I had never encountered this velocity issue before.

Well when i reached the 940m/s i was staying between 4 and 5km distance. I did realise a 1000m/s diff is a lot, so i started to burn retro. In 5km distance i felt comfy i could burn off the diff, i had a big engine. The distance counter stopped when i reached 940m/s (or around this). WHen i was at around 800m/s, the target moved away from me again while i was still behind it. The only mods i have are "lazor docking tools (docking cam) and an alignment indicator", i think they are called plugins. I brought my vehicle back for reentry after 5 or 6 unsuccesful attempts, i was getting desperate. I have no screenshots, KSP crashes often when i press F1, i did not have the guts to do that. I though i had maybe pressed a button that caused this.

I had a near perfect plane. Over time i have been improving on that, i can now take off on a 90 degree trajectory that will put me on a near level plane. I also checked it in the map view, i do not think that was gonna be a problem. At least, i had had worse "trajectories" in the past and my way of rendesvouz never was this troublesome.

I will try and explain what i mean, hope it is clear. I am comfortable in making a rendesvouz and docking. Done at least 20 succesful attempts now. Now... I wanted to do another one, i made a beautiful maneuver node that would get me within 5.1km of the target (space station at 400km orbit) Once within range, the navball switched to "radar", as expected. Now came the trick. I was getting close to the target, i was overtaking it from a lower orbit. At around 5.3km i retroburned to neutralise the speed difference. But i was not able to. At the moment i started to burn i had a velocity diff of around 1000m/s. When i reached 900m/s the station was moving away from me again. This is the part i do not understand. I though the speed difference should be 0 if i am to move the same speed. I mean i am used to bring the difference to around 20m/s and then i will creep closer for the actual docking. So in my case, the neutralisation velocity seemed to be around 940m/s. But is that something wrong with me? DId i press a button that gives these values? I tried again to get a 20m/s difffernce, because that is easier. But when i tried that, the target, still in front of me, moved away from me again. I had to stay around 940 m/s the whole time, making maneuvering on the navball almost impossible. I could get close to the target, but i could not rely on the navball. I know the value on the navball is always positive, i have been using this for all those succesful attempts and i never ran into these high velocity values.

:-) I am determined to prevent that from happening, hence my lenghty space program. Yesterday finally brought the unmanned lander down, came down very soft, but pressed "full throttle" instead of "close throttle" in all the excitement. So up it went, then over, then bang! I will have to try that again. I was so damn proud i made a beautiful descent, only to mess up LOL

Thanks all guys, great hints again. I did manage to bring a new ship in munar orbit and i "coupled" with the lander again. Now it has fuel. I will try and land the little bugger tonight. I was pleasantly surprised i was able to almost visually couple with the lander, i get better at that rendesvouz'ing every day. Quick save/launch? Never heard of that lol. Thanks, i will try and remember that.

Great tips guys! Thanks. I just wanted to spill my story here. :-) The amateurism comes from the fact i do not use checklists, of course no pay for me, but the fact i do everything from the "mind" ensures mistakes. LOL I love KSP!