cowbs

Ahh damn. Looks like I may be editing the clamp-o-tron wiki in my near future to aid future kerbalnauts. At least it shouldn't be hard to get a new version in orbit around Kerbin. Plus I feeling like I finally got a hand on the mechanics of orbital rendezvous. Thanks again for the help guys!

Do docking ports have orientation requirements? I tried to dock a shielded clamp-o-tron to, I'd guess you call it the male-end of, a standard clamp-o-tron. I.e. the bottom side as shown in this picture is my outward facing port: I got what looked to be the magnetic effect of the dock to kick in, but it would always push my station I was docking with away. So I tried using RCS to reduce the acceleration from the magnet and finally got it to stabilize, but it never considered itself logically docked. Did I screw myself by not orienting my docking ports correctly on my station? Or is this a manifestation of the docking bug that requires a save file fix? I only seem to have one docking node in my quicksave, which is in state 'Acquire'. Checking it to 'ready' and 'docked' just resulted in my shielded clamp-o-tron being permanently locked close with no way for me to open it. Although both the ships I'm trying to dock with have multi-nodes with four docking ports on them, each. Any help is greatly appreciated. Can't decide if scrubbing the station because of a design flaw or this just being a game bug is the worse case.

Yup! Thanks for the help guys!

Hello, I used to be able to do transfers from Kerbin to Minmus in my sleep. However after coming back to .21 I can no longer seem to follow Manley's guide for transfer. Whenever I setup Minmus at a 90 degree angle from my transfer vector, I always end up hitting Mun's sphere of influence before I can get my target position at closest approach points to line up. This always throws me off and makes setting up a transfer impossible. What am I missing? Do I need to wait a few in-game months for their orbit timings to diverge? Is it some thrust property of my ship? Thanks for your help