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New KSP player and this is my first post. I’m having a problem with matching an orbit for a mission. I think I have it exact, but I’m not getting the mission completion. I have all the right parts installed and all those parameters checked off. It’s just the “designated orbit” that isn’t checked off. 

Playing on Xbox One

 

Mission Parameters (sun orbit)

Ap: 84,387,147,008

Pe: 47,229,562,452

Inclination: 180 degrees

Argument of Pe: 90.6

 

My current orbit:

Ap: 84,388,128,744

Pe: 47,229,529,438

Moving in retrograde to sun

 

Thinking that there was a bug or something with the inclination I created a second craft that is going prograde with all the same Ap, Pe... also didn’t work.

There is a “guide” line in the sky that I guess I’m supposed to match, and I’m so close to it that if I zoom in, the guide line disappears before my orbit and its orbit are even noticeably different. Looking online, it seems you don’t have to even be this accurate. 

Please help!

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Welcome to the forums.

Typically with newbies, this is a problem with going the wrong direction around your orbit. But it looks like you've covered that.  If you hover over the An and Dn tags on the target orbit, do they say 0 degrees?

The next common problem is getting the Ap and Pe of your orbit aligned with the requested one, so that the tags are on top of each other.

So the next thing we always do is ask for a picture of your orbit. Which is a lot harder in your case, being on an xbox. But we'd be happy with a picture taken from your phone. You need to use an image hosting service (such as imgur) to actually post it. There are instructions in the FAQ on this forum.

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1 hour ago, bewing said:

Welcome to the forums.

Typically with newbies, this is a problem with going the wrong direction around your orbit. But it looks like you've covered that.  If you hover over the An and Dn tags on the target orbit, do they say 0 degrees?

The next common problem is getting the Ap and Pe of your orbit aligned with the requested one, so that the tags are on top of each other.

So the next thing we always do is ask for a picture of your orbit. Which is a lot harder in your case, being on an xbox. But we'd be happy with a picture taken from your phone. You need to use an image hosting service (such as imgur) to actually post it. There are instructions in the FAQ on this forum.

Thanks for the reply!

I am going the right direction, and even sent up a second one in the opposite direction, just in case. Note: I’m not exactly “new” as I’ve unlocked everything in career mode. Also note that I’ve done several of these missions, but this is the first one that doesn’t complete. I don’t think I can set the sun as a target, so that makes it a little more tricky to get data (esp on Xbox with no mods).

I keep getting errors trying to upload the image url... here it is though: http://imgur.com/2yqVz2B

I know it’ll be hard to see, so I’ll do several: http://imgur.com/dlwX9Fd 
http://imgur.com/8u5SSVC
http://imgur.com/bctID91

Here is some images from the other spacecraft as well (one going other direction:

http://imgur.com/WsGcZHD
http://imgur.com/cjIPyPJ
http://imgur.com/LkOqWGX
http://imgur.com/cF9X5ID 

Thanks so much for any help! Also, sorry it won’t let me upload the images directly... (I did read the FAQ on it, something is just going wrong on my phone)

 

 

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In every one of those shots that shows the An and Dn, it has a value of 180 (or -180). That number has to be zero for the contract to complete. If it's 180, it means you are going the wrong direction around the orbit. The number is measured from the desired orbit, relative to the ship you currently have in focus.

Now, I know you said you have the two ships going in opposite directions around the sun. If those pix really are from shots of both satellites, then I'm gonna have to say sorry, but I don't believe you.

You may want to focus each ship, and then look closely at the An and Dn values. If they all say 180, then you may want to timewarp good and fast for a while. If the two ships really are in opposite orbits, they should get closer to each other and then pass. I bet they won't. I bet they are both going in the wrong direction around the sun together.

 

 

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Oh no... you were right. I could have sworn I brought my second relay in the opposite direction of the first. Doh!

Oh well, all is not lost, I’ll add a third one and have a nice sun orbiting relay network.

Thanks again! I was so confused how I had two sats going opposite directions yet they both had same inclination. 

Im going to go sit in the corner and hide my face now. 

What a great community, thanks so much!

 

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For you Xbox One guys that want to take nice screen shots:

Press the Xbox button on your controller, then press Y to take a screenshot.  Navigate to your captures and upload the image to OneDrive.  Don't have a OneDrive account?  Sure you do!  You have some free storage under the Microsoft account you use to sign into your Xbox profile.  That's a good convoluted way to get screenshots from your Xbox to the internet.  Easy, right?

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