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Alba Kerbadh Flag Large-01 by Sgiobair Ã’g, on Flickr Just finished my flag. Based around the Nova Scotia Gaelic Flag. The slogan is an adaptation of a common phrase in Gaelic and reads "It is better to have broken Kerbals than dead Kerbals."

Everything looked to be running fine at full throttle so I'm assuming so. Also had three Xenon tanks stacked up.

Still getting the hang of things around KSP and I got a bit tired of my heavy-lift missions not getting me where I want to go. I decided to just build a probe and send it out into space. I fitted an ion engine, had a detachable rocket stage and went to it. The rocket got me in a wide orbit around the solar system. I dropped the rocket and throttled up the Ion engine figuring eventually it will continue to push the orbit out (probably wrong). The problem I have now is, I can't do anything else. I can't warp time with the Ion engine throttled up to see if it works. I also can't return to the space center with the engine throttled up. Ion engines don't do their thing without being throttled up. What am I missing?

Aha, that worked. The Guidance System was on upside down since I built the orbiter right side up then flipped it. Thank you Supernovy, don't know why I didn't think of that.

I'm guessing it sees it as the guidance system being upside down. When I tried it on the first mission the vectors stayed the same. Is there some other visual indicator that your control point changed? I'll test this one on the pad and see if it changes anything.

Learned the hard way yesterday that docking ports will allow your orbiter's main engine to rob fuel from your lunar lander module. On the way to Mün I made sure to transfer fuel into my lander tanks and top them off (should have been a warning sign). Got to Münar orbit, disconnected from the orbiter, activated the sky crane rockets... nothing. The orbiter had sucked the lander tanks dry. Word to the wise, shut off fuel cross-flow on your docking port.

Hello all, first post here at the KSP forums. As the addiction took hold I figured I'd be here eventually. So here's my first question. I'm using the Stock KSP Rover and Sky-Crane design as the basis for a Mün mission. I've added a small rocket to act as a remote-controlled orbiter and what is essentially a Delta IV to get the whole payload up into space. Like so... RSD-Issue by Sgiobair Òg, on Flickr On the trial flight everything was going well until I separated the orbiter package. Because the Probododyne OCTO was the first control pod on the build all of the guidance vectors were set to its orientation, in other words, the drive rocket on the payload was facing the wrong way. It was manageable for the simple orbital maneuvers I needed to accomplish but it was something I wanted to fix. On the variant you see here I flipped the whole payload upside down. My thought was that the rocket motor would now be pushing "up" from the start. However the guidance was linked to the OCTO so now I started my mission with my guidance reversed. What I am trying to sort out then, is how do I get control to switch from the OCTO to the Remote Control System on the Orbiter. "Control from Here" doesn't seem to do it. I can't remove the OCTO and make the RCS primary without having to re-create the rover and sky-crane. Any thoughts?