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Sometimes, the SAS causes Rapid Unplanned Disassembly. If the craft is instable but near-perfectly balanced, you will be able to accelerate without SAS for a while before deviating from your course significantly. With SAS on however, it will try to correct for the course or stabilize the craft, this will induce oscillation and break the craft.

This is a great hint, thanks! I knew about fine-control, but I wasn't aware that it changes how the thrusters behave. I had the impression that sometimes my craft starts spinning when translating and sometimes it doesn't, but I couldn't understand why. This is probably the reason. (I switched between fine and raw control a lot) Oh, and I was able to get from a 100km to and 1,500km orbit with some very careful burns with my craft. I had to turn SAS off though because by trying to stabilise the craft, it always broke it apart.

It only took 30 minutes or so, but i finally made it! Thanks you guys, I'm so happy right now :-) I finally got them to dock, with 0 monopropellant left! The problem was my imbalanced, way to heavy craft. It had to be really precisely lined up for docking, which is impossible to do with the standard Navball. Thanks for everybody who recommended an Docking Alignment Indicator Mod, that was exactly what I needed! With it (and lots and lots of patience) I was able to do it. I haven't tested how stable my setup is, but at least now I can fuel up for Moho Above is very true. Thanks for the RCS BA hint, I'm definitely going to try that out. I wasn't planning on doing that (just fueling up for Moho), but since this is KSP, I'm at least going to try it It is currently turning in one piece, albeit very slowly, since I definitely can't use thrusters. Also, I just figured out that the weird green Smileys in this forum are Kerbals and not, as previously assumed, Zombies.

So I've tried to dock two ships for the first time, and I guess I got a little carried away with the size of the ships (See screenshot). I've been trying to dock these for about half an hour, and the just don't want to. My question is, what did I do wrong? Are these ships simply way too big for docking with a regular-size pod (The fuel tanks in the "Gas Station" are almost full, thats 9 of the biggest tanks there are). Or do I have to get them perfectly aligned in a line? My understanding was that magnets in the docking ports pull these ships together? Or did I do something else wrong? I remember that the docking port for the "Gas Station" didn't snap to the middle of the Monopropellant tank it is on, I had to manually align it... might that have something to do with it? Oh, and since I'm writing this: Is there any mod that keeps pro/retrograde marker on the Navball / somewhere else even when the relative speed is just 0.1? I noticed that in stock KSP, it goes missing sometimes even though the craft is still moving, so I'm never able to bring them to a complete standstill... Thanks :-) EDIT: Solved! As the comments say, Docking Indicator Mod (one of them) is essential when docking large crafts! Thanks!