FreddyB

Thanks for the replies. Yes, it's definitely a lesson learned for next probe, and I did take it for a test run around KSC but navball orientation wasn't on my checklist. D'oh. Anyway the waypoint manager mod is exactly what I needed, so thanks again.

Still quite new to this whole thing, I sent a rover to a distant body. It died. So I sent another. It half lived but needs a good engineer. So I sent a third. This one lived... How happy I was until I tried to steer it towards a navigation marker. Then I found the problem. The Navball is all blue, I can't see the horizon on it (save when I send it flying and tumbling over a hill), and the Nav markers are not visible. Is there any way to change orientation on the rover whilst it is in situ, rather than still sat in the VAB/SPH ? Or is there another more ingenious way to navigate to the markers? Some way to make them into targets?

Thanks for the screen grabs, Deddly. Looks like a false alarm. I got inspired to go back and try following your post and I have done it. I can't get hold of it at any angle except the original frame hold you had, but I have managed it. Thanks very much for the time taken to help

Hi Vanamonde, thanks for your response. I tried for longer than was healthy to pick it up from every conceivable angle I could try. I have successfully picked other artifacts - asteroids, cabins, tanks, etc but just not this shield. I gave up trying it in space and built myself a rover with a klaw attachment and put the 10m heat shield on a stand at the KSC. I tried as gently as I could, I tried again from all angles, I rammed it at full speed. Nothing at all except some comical accidents. I've privately concluded that it's a bug, but I'll be more than happy if it's confirmed that it is possible, and I'm just not getting it.

I have a task to capture a 10m Heat shield from Kerbin Orbit and return it to the surface. When I rendezvous with it, in a klaw-equipped craft, I can't grab it. I've tried all sides of the surface, even poking the klaw inside it and I just can't get a hold of it. I understood the klaw can grab anything but it doesn't seem to want to hold this. I have managed to successfully grab command modules and asteroids with it. Is there something I'm doing wrong or misunderstanding?