BananaLee

Sorry to necro this thread (again), would we be able to generate a phase angle/periapsis graph with the x-axis only covering 0.7 to 2.5? I'm just running a couple of experiments and so far, I've noticed that using this method with Ferram Aerospace seems to cause overshoots of targets. Having a bigger graph to play with will be quite useful for me to mark corrections.

If someone could explain to a noob like myself as to how to do it, I'd happily do that - I've become quite dependent on the numbers to be honest...

It took me 69 hours of slow and steady learning to land Jeb on the Mün. What I'd suggest is getting one of the tried-and-true designs off Spaceport to get yourself to the Mün if you can't be bothered with the spaceship design part of it. If you're obsessive-compulsive like me and want to learn how things in space works without trying to learn everything at once, I'd suggest the Wiki campaign (in my signature) as it actually teaches what you need to learn and builds up on what you've learnt before (e.g. getting to orbit, pinpoint orbits, rendezvous and docking, etc)

My suspicion is that you don't have enough reaction wheel torque to counteract the spin. Most rockets without SAS tend to spin (assuming it's a roll) quite a bit.. Alternatively, if you try to face the rocket too far out of its current direction, it would go into uncontrollable stall and do all sorts of mad stuff - so the solution is to turn your rocket more slowly (keeping the brown bit on the navball closer to the yellow bit)

Probably a silly question but the original post had a "Mk1-3 Command pod - Soyuz-type descent capsule. Like the other two cone shape ones, but holds TWO kerbals, is a little bigger than 1.25m, and is more bulbous" included in the description. However, it doesn't look like the part shows up on VAB (whereas the other parts do). Does the part exist in KSPX mod or was that meant to be an 'in-progress' piece?

My signature probably says it.. The campaign's a great way to slowly learn each and every piece of spacing (from just focusing on getting into orbit to - for me right now, at least - trying to do the first docking ops).

So far, my satellites are Kerbalcom I, II, and III (my three geostationary constellation), Meteo I (geostationary satellite, 10° off from Kerbalcom I) and Kerpolar I (polar satellite)

Heavens be praised, my belly is raised! It only took me 28 hours of playing from scratch but after following the wee campaign, I've managed to put up my constellation of geostationary satellites. And I can probably do them almost routinely now. Onwards and upwards!

If the Kerman brothers are sharp enough, they might be able to work something out with the boys at Squad. Much like the fellows below http://manentail.com/expert-blog/mane-%E2%80%98n-tail-goes-to-the-sundance-film-festival/

With my tiny little space program, .21 managed to update my saves with no problems... Until I tried to fly my spacecraft and the new SAS wreaked havoc. So I started a new save and put up my geosats again..

I've got a spare Jeb and Wernher. Looking for Bill, Mechanic, and Recruit. Would anyone be keen to trade? (PM or my Steam name is BananaLee67)

Pretty much what Autochton said. FAR is quite unforgiving if your Centre of Lift ever gets ahead of the Centre of Mass. I haven't built massive designs like yours (so far, still on Earth Orbit practice) but I've learnt to try to fix it in three ways: - 1) Shift winglets as far down as possible to push CoL down 2) Shift side stages upwards to bring CoM up 3) Actively manage fuel distribution, i.e. shut off the top fuel tanks until you get out of the atmosphere

You'll need to ensure that your staging is set up correctly. On your bottom left, there will be tabs numbered 0 to some number or the other. Each of those tabs has some icons on it representing the 'fire up' of a respective object (e.g. decoupler, engine, etc.) and you'll need to arrange them correctly to ensure your parachute doesn't go off at the wrong time. I've attached one of my rockets' staging setup to illustrate what I mean.

Bought the game at full price just before the Summer Sales started. Don't really regret it to be honest. With the hours I've spent on the game, it works out pretty cheap anyway...