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I'm about 400 hours into my KSP career, so not really a total newby and have successfully docked many many things to one another, but I'm completely flummoxed by the behavior of docking ports WRT the HubMax. When I launch my first station, the attached docking ports do not have the "Decouple Node" option available, after all, they're attached directly to the HubMax. Sofar, so good. I launch my next piece (a large solar array), and plot intercept in LKO. Move to dock with the array going Clamp-O-Tron to Clamp-O-Tron. As I bring the array in closer, they touch at .1 m/s with SAS off, and... nothing. No magnetic attraction, no docking as I've done successfully many times in the past. No amount of rotating the array seems to affect it. The only thing that seemingly changes is I now have the option to 'Decouple Node' on the docking port attached to the HubMax... huh? If I click that, the docking port just floats out into space as if attached with a decoupler, which it isn't, leaving me a bare HubMax endpoint. Thinking I attached it wrong, I tweak how the Clamp-O-Tron is aligned in the VAB, and launch a second station (which is actually the one shown below, attempt #2), but it too suffers the same indignity as the first. The array, for its part, seems to continue to have a normal functional docking port, though in fairness I'd need to throw something else up into orbit to test against. But I feel pretty certain its the HubMax port that's the issue. So... bug? Am I missing something here? Do I not understand how the HubMax is supposed to work? Any thoughts on resolution or workaround to my station floating debris in space? TIA