rockbloodystar

SOLVED (ish) i changed from having seven mainsailes each beneath two tanks to 13 mainsails each under one tank. The shorter wider design seems to be much morestable, i've now added that fuel tanks and three atomic engines to the multipart ship. Many thanks all.

Thanks for that detail, i'm currently trying the modifications. Unfortunately i can't load your file at the moment as i have mechjeb2 installed, not mechjeb 1. i'll do that shortly. hCheers.

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I have lots of RCS, it eats too much fuel for that to be a viable solution.

How can I upload the file?

The "lifter" (which has launched other payloads before) is 7 mainsail engines under two fuel tanks each. Attached to that is two stages of short solid boosters. The payload is a big fule tank, and a maneuver pod to attach it to the space station i'm building. I'm using mechjeb, and am using more and more SAS units to add to the available torque.

I've read the other two spin threads, and none seem to be addressing the kind of spin i have got on a craft. The craft is stable while buring through its stages. As soon as the engines idle back to coast to Ap it develops a flat spin that accelerates. Any clues?

SOLVED. Thanks

I have lots of nodes, does it care what "end" they are on?

Hi, some sharing of my progress: An early failure; having spent a weekend with the game, i approached Mun and controlled by descent... ...until the last few seconds. Success on the next mission - I was now a KSP-er I spent a week dropping probes onto moons and planets. I then started building a space station, now decomissioned as i am redesigning since the discovery of Quantum Struts. This was three launches to build:

I seem unable to save any structure as a subassembly. It claims that I have no nodes to attach things too. Not true. But i can't find what it counts as a node to make a fix. Any clues?

Hmm, if i load one of those mods, will i have to redo the launches that already make my station?

Many thanks.

Me too! I've smashed many satellites, or wiped out the solar panels with misjudged docking. All hail Mechanical Jeb!

not sure how to upload? (also my account vanished in the forum outages so i'm posting to get up to five messages - sorry for what looks like spamming)

...i'm sure someone has a mod for it. (also my account vanished in the forum outages so i'm posting to get up to five messages - sorry for what looks like spamming)

...and i'm wondering how accurate i need to be with weight disrtibution, so that when i turn on my engine i will not get unwanted torque. Any ideas? (also my account vanished in the forum outages so i'm posting to get up to five messages - sorry for what looks like spamming)