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I'll add you to my skype thanks Piloting the vessel is enjoyable, however i'm happy to yield control to the computer if the alternative is a lot of stress. Making the crafts, doing the science is what I really love. If I had the option to let my Kerbals pilot their own craft, then I'd like that option. As I like managing the agency and developing the tech most of all I think the issue here is that I obviously have gabs in my understanding of orbiting procedure and how to read the markers correctly. I can get my craft close, but not close enough for an intercept. I didn't even know you could move the manoeuvre node around, I thought it was anchored to that one spot when you created it.

Answer to the first, yes I am setting the satellite to be my target. I have not yet researched RCS thrusters. My plan was to get within a reasonable distance of the target and EVA across to it, retrieve the data, get back to my craft and go home. What is Mechjeb? As reluctant as i am do modding, if there is something out there that will make this easier..Well hell I'm inclined to use it I know how to alter my orbit and plan manoeuvres, but as this is the first time i've used target, I dont fully understand the additional markers that appear when you set something as your target. I dont know what they are telling me, which is part of the problem i guess.

Tortoise thanks for the video, but i'm afraid there is way to much going on there for me to follow what the heck the person is trying to show me. I'm close to giving up at this point as I just had another crack as it and I can't seem to get close enough. I have to two orbits very close together so when i try to adjust my orbit, the two a meshing together and i'm having trouble knowing one from the other. I might go back and watch some more orbital tutorials. Perhaps it's just me, but I felt the tutorials for KSP took a bit of a jump from learning orbits to going to the mun, something I've yet to achieve. Everyone's learning curve is different and some take to plotting orbits easier then others :/

Thanks guys, I will give it a go. I thought turning the craft around and throttling against the direction of my orbit, would essentially cause me to plummet to the ground like a rock? As I'm accelerating against the force that is dragging me around the planet. I'll give it a shot

Hi there everyone I'm sorry for asking this, I feel extremely stupid to be honest. I've watched several youtube movies and still I'm not getting how the heck I intercept another object in orbit of kerbal. I'm still in the early stages of research and made an unmanned satellite, with a jr science lab. When I got the thing in orbit I realised I'd made a massive mistake, I'd forgotten to fit a parachute DOH So I thinks to myself, no problem. Send up a kerbal to intercept the satellite and retrieve the science from the unit and return it to earth. Oh lord has this led me to pulling my hair out, the make "target" function leaves me scratching my head. Today I had to take a step away from KSP as no game should leave the player stressed, games are meant to be fun! I can get my space craft in a relatively identical orbit to the satellite, but I'm always behind or infront of it and I can't figure out how to reduce the distance between the two objects without altering the orbit of the space craft. Pushing me out of sync with my target. Any help would be appreciated (an overly stressed gamer)