Refueling spaceplane on Laythe?

[Rylant]

Hey all. So I have established a surface base on Laythe on one of the flatter islands which I can land a small SSTO on. I also have a simple orbital base in Laythe orbit. My intent was to dock my interplanetary ship with the orbital base, transfer crew to the SSTO, fly them to the planet to get the flag plant, and return them to the orbital base to continue the journey.

The surface base has mining and ISRU ability, but I am not sure how to transfer fuel to the nearby SSTO for refueling. Is it possible to do without docking the SSTO to the surface base?

Rylant

[Stamp20]

You can use Breaking Ground robotics to add a robotic arm to the base that can dock to the plane, or install Kerbal Attachment System and use the RTS-01 resource transfer pipe to move fuel to the plane without docking.

[king of nowhere]

and using robotic parts to dock is likely to destroy your craft in some bug. i stopped using robotic arms for docking after it happened to me.

[Blaarkies]

I hope this still works. It gives you a special fuel pipe that kerbals on EVA can use to attach your spaceplane. Just park close by, walk over there with the pipe, and you can transfer fuel without any actual docking

 

EVA Resource Transfer - 9.0