Totema

More like requiescat in pace... in peace.

I don't mean to turn this into a necrothread, but I thought I'd give an update. Using MechJeb on both modules doesn't seem to help; they spend more than an hour trying to align, and when they do align and dock, one of the pairs of ports is, again, not docked. I concur with Arbolus and Jason, for when I decoupled the first, properly docked module and then tried to dock the second one, that one docks fine and the first one has problems. So the problem is mirrored and doesn't seem to have to do with the modules themselves. In my next station, the central pillar will probably use the exact same parts as the outer pillars, to completely bypass this alignment issue. But it still bothers me that in the VAB I was able to make them all snap together just fine, and yet they won't dock out in orbit. It would be a great feature to be able to measure out the distance between docks to see if they'll dock correctly. Or to be able to force two nearby ports to snap together, regardless of miniscule alignment problems. Maybe there are addons that can do either of these? I've resolved to discontinue the current project, recover my crew, and deorbit the station. Enjoy the pictures, and thanks to everyone that answered.

It sounds like you're looking at debris in the tracking station. Try switching the view to probes (in the upper left part of the UI). Does that help?

Howdy all, I'm in the process of assembling a low-orbit space station, and the module I'm currently trying to dock use two pairs of ports at once, to increase stability/reduce annoying floppiness. The trouble is, even though I've made sure that the parts are lines up correctly and I've even done it before with the exact same setup, I'm having a real hard time getting this module to dock properly. I even spent all night redoing the docking maneuver but having no success. As you can see, I can get one pair of ports to dock alright, but the other is always just a little bit off. And it's always the same pair too. You can also see that I have the same module on the other side of the core, and yes, both pairs of ports are docked and stable. Funny thing is, I originally had the same problem with that one too, but after making some orbital corrections and other maneuvers it looked like it just fixed itself somehow. But that's not happening in this case here. Is there anything else I can try to get these to dock?