Thucydides

Hi Plusck, could you explain a bit more about where to place the manouvre node? Presumably that is on the rescue crafts orbit (sorry for the dumb questions)

Hello, So this is the new orbit of the craft; I'll now proceed to try to use your advice above to get a rescue sorted.

Thanks to Snark for instruction on how to upload the image: Hope this works. This is slightly altered now due to some 'getting out and push' in EVA, the orbit is more eliptical, with a lower periapse, but the problems remain largely the same from what I can tell. I'll load it up this evening and get another screenshot and try the above suggestions. Thank you for all your help thusfar.

Thank you Vim Razz, I have been trying something along these lines but still not having much luck. With limited power and fuel my rescue vehicle's orbit is much smaller than the target's, so whilst it can orbit many times during a single orbit of the target vehicle, it never seems to give me a good rv. Perhaps it's just trial and error? I shall have another go with your suggested method tomorrow. Are there any 'tricks' like when going to Mun I was told it was best to wait till it was at about 90 from the intended intersect point? Does that work with this kind of thing? If I miss the time when the target is at its periapse, I have to wait a whole other year or at least, many months. If I try and make my orbit match their's (someone recommended ont he KSP facebook page), it of course takes about 2 minutes burn and by the end, I don't have much at all. Thank you for your help and patience.

Hello, I have been following the Scott Manley tutorials on YouTube to get better at KSP. Unfortunately, after putting Bob onto Minimus I ran out of fuel on the way back and he is stuck in very wide orbit around Kerbal. I have been trying in vain to get a probe up to rescue him but I can't seem to figure out how to get this RV right. I have a screen cap of his orbit but I'm not sure how upload it here. Mun often obstructs my craft's orbit, or they run out of fuel before I can get them into a similar orbit with Bob's lander. Contact chevron's appear very far apart and I don't know how to bring them closer together. It's a lot hardert han rescuing a Kerbal from low orbit.