Eastistheway

Thanks for the great responses everyone. Seemed to be that the asymmetry (really the amount and weight of asymmetry in relation to my launch vehicle) was the problem. Bigger rockets, more sas, smaller satellites, less asymmetry seems to "work" but is also a headache. Think I'll stick to orbital construction for the weird stuff!

I'll post them up as soon as I can. Tried several different designs though, some short/tall, overkill/minimal. Com is always very low, near the base (hard to tell if it is exactly centered though) , cot is always centered from the bottom (haven't made it past stage one though). I'll have to check the col, though.

Hey guys! Let me start out by saying how much I love this community and how addicted I am to this game! I've had it about two days, so I'm still mainly working with satellites and trying to figure out intercept trajectories and stuff. I've gotten a few permanent(ish) satellites around Kerbin, and one good one around the mun. These are really small, symmetrical satellites that I just mounted on the to of my rocket. So onto the problem, I want to get a larger satellite to Minmus (or beyond) so I built a really sweet satellite that I'm really attached too. it has all the science stuff (I know it's useless but you gotta have principles) ave lights and stuff, a little heavy but... Also it is asymmetrical as hell. I'd really like it to stay that way. I have it mounted in a large fairing assembly, with fairly large rockets (though I've tried about six redesigns by now) EVERY EFFIN TIME I get to around 3000 meters it noses down super hard resulting in an unrecoverable death spin screw up. I've tried covering it in rcs and sas equipment to no avail. Also tried to ballast out the satellite as much as I can without being absolutely matching symmetry-wise. Everything else is symmetrical. Please help! it's so frustrating! Is this just bad rocket design? Or should I give up on asymmetrical things? I just get this bad-a satellite into some far away orbit! running kw mod and some parts mods. Sorry for the weird spacing or punctuation, my phone hates this forum apparently.