Ron Devu

I launched a couple of small satellites of slightly different designs. The tracking station show them both as "Probe 0.4". Is there a way to rename them?

For the poor guys whose docking ports have become useless because they are permanently locked in the "docked" state: How about a reset button on the docking ports? Maybe call it "arm".

I was reading an old thread about people installing clampotrons the wrong way round, so I started playing with them.... and got confused cause it seems like the mating ball is on the wrong side. So, when a clampotron is correctly installed, do you see a cross and a yellow triangle inside the port, or just a dark rectangle?

What part of the docking procedure is causing you problems? It would help to narrow it down a bit

I went through something like this today. It turned out I had not opened the cover on the docking port! As for the SAS, I usually shut it off 2-5 meters out, while approaching at 0.1 or 0.2 m/s, otherwise the reaction wheels and RCS will go ape. Be sure you are controlling from your docking port and the target is also a docking port.

So Starhawk, are those little RCS units 4-axis or 5? It makes a big difference in placement. Maybe the game models them as x amount of thrust in any desired direction?

Ok thanks to good advice here I am now doing the docking tutorial. I have a good rendezvous but have run into a problem with the RCS. Instead of translating the ship, it just rotates it. I inspected the ship and found a set of four RCS units evenly spaced around the bottom of the fuel tank, but the are no RCS units on the front end of the ship. This would nicely explain the rotation problem, someone just FORGOT to put the critical forward RCS units on the ship. Is this correct?

That should do it. Thanks for the help! I was getting ready to write the game off for a while there. edit yay it worked first try! woohooo!

Hi it's my second day in the game. I'm trying for a Munar flyby. I'm using a stack 'o' fuel with a Swivel engine and 2 large SRBs. After having no problems for some time, suddenly I can't attach SRBs to the main rocket. They either miss the separating devices and attach themselves permanently, or they attach with one booster much close to the main rocket than the other, or they will attach with both boosters almost completely INSIDE the main rocket body. I just spent an hour trying to do this without success. The frustration is unbelievable, because it's something I have done in about 2 seconds many times before. Am I missing something simple here?