axeman3d

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm back home now so I'm going to go try this out immediately. My satellite core is actually in the middle of the satellite build so I am not attaching the root part but rather a fuel tank. I'll let you know if it works.

I'm trying to set up a comms network by throwing up some satellite in low Kerbin orbit. I've watched a couple of tutorials and built myself an SSTO with a cargo bay. I then built a satellite small enough to fit in the cargo bay, but I'm having no luck at all trying to get the satellite loaded into the bay. How is it done? I loaded up the SSTO then load/merged my satellite in there but I can't get it to attach to the rear or front of the cargo bay. I've tried couplers on the satellite and on the cargo bay but no luck. I tried using docking ports instead of a coupler but that too did not work at all. What am I missing? I'm guessing it's something simple that I've not picked up on in the tutorials. How do you guys load and mount satellites in cargo bays?

Just watched the raw footage of the Chinese lander coming down... Discovery Website news footage It all goes swimmingly, it comes down nice and smoothly and then they stop all forward motion and hover over the landing site for a few seconds. When the actual descent starts and they land it looks like one of my landings where I leave the braking a little too late! The one thing that always gets me is how the moon (and the Mun) look almost exactly the same from 5m as from 5000m. Trying to judge distances without some context such as the lander shadow or a radar altimeter is practically impossible.