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Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMn8--P71I-azFNbl9Ual9RTUE/view?usp=sharing The contract is to move an existing probe (called "orbit the mun") into a new orbit. The specifications are that the apoapsis should be 558 360 m and the periapsis should be 198 170 m. As you can see, Kerbal engineer puts the probe's apoapsis at 558 387.7 m and periapsis at 198 749.8 m. These should be within the error bounds. You can see in the screenshot that the apoapsis and periapsis line up reasonably well with the target orbit. It definitely is the right probe because it has the blue square around it and "be in command of orbit the mun probe" is checked. I've already read other questions like this, and in every case, the problem was going the wrong direction. But here, the descending node is 0 (shown in the screenshot), which means I'm going the right way, right?! The inclination is about 179 degrees, so that means I should be going clockwise, and I am going clockwise. My vessel has been like this for more than 10 seconds.

The problem is, the rocket activates in two stages, (sorry, for some reason the images weren't working before) so the center of lift is actually quite far from the center of mass. Your suggestion, Cairol, works, but it is just short of enough fuel to get into orbit (at least for me). I got the apoapis above 70km but I could only get the periapis to 30km.

Screenshots at: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxMn8--P71I-fk9CbExnMjRZa2JLQXlPQjNyT0M3cXZUbTRWOXVGNFVoUzhFcENlcXlaVUU&usp=sharing For some reason, the images were not showing I'm completely new to ksp and I recently downloaded the demo version. I'm playing in sandbox mode and I've made the following rocket: [screenshot 31] This is my launch procedure: press t to turn on SAS, press space. After about one second of doing nothing, the rocket tilts a few degrees. [screenshot 32] After about six seconds, the rocket seems to tilt way more, probably because gravity is pulling more on one part more than another. It's like an unintentional gravity turn. [screenshot 33] I tried again without the stability enhancers and got this (basically the same thing, different direction): [screenshot 34] [screenshot 35] Every time I relaunch it seems to tilt randomly in a different direction. I've gotten the rocket into orbit a few times, but only when I'm lucky enough to have the rocket tilt roughly east in the beginning. Is it because the rocket simply has too much mass to be stable? Craft file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMn8--P71I-Q3RIME9nc0VEU2s/edit?pli=1