wangmaster

Turns out everything is fine, I just didnt burn enough. Thanks for the help anyway

I'm trying to perform a mission of sending a probe to Minmus in career mode. I use maneuver nodes to plan a synchronous orbit to Minmus and everything goes fine initially, until my probe enters Minmus's sphere of influence. At that point, I get this weird trajectory, as though I am still under Kerbin's gravitational influence and Minmus has no effect on my craft. Below are pictures to illustrate. Here I am approaching an orbit to Minmus: After I supposedly enter Minmus's orbit, I get these weird trajectories: The control centre labels my position as "On escape trajectory out of minmus", which makes sense given my trajectory path, however Minmus has NO gravitational pull on my craft whatsoever. I tried burning retro at the periapsis of the blue trajectory: hat didn't produce a stable orbit around Minmus and only affected the escape trajectory when I enter Kerbin's influence again (the other end of the blue line). I even tried crashing my craft into Minmus, it just travelled in a straight line until it impacted, as though the moon had absolutely no influence over it. Im running 32bit KSP v0.90.0.705 beta, the latest version as of this post on windows 8. I believe my system specs are well above the recommended specs. Am I doing something wrong?