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DeMatt

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  1. When I build a rover, I tend to carry it horizontally instead of vertically. I then build my lander "above", wider, and deeper than the rover, so that when the lander touches down, the rover is wheels-down and dangling just above the surface: Lander / | \ / Rover \ / \Maybe try redesigning your rover to be carried that way? If you don't want a full lander, you could also go with a kind of skycrane route, and have a "landing thruster pack" that brings the rover down to a landing on its wheels, then gets detached and flown away. Bear in mind the "wider" part; if your thrusters fire into the rover, they won't generate any actual thrust as their exhaust bounces off the rover. Turning on the "Center of Mass" and "Center of Thrust" indicators in the VAB (the three green buttons in the lower-left corner) can help to make sure you've got the rocket balanced correctly when you add the rover.
  2. Quick summary of the mission: I'm setting up a three-satellite communications array to use within RemoteTech, and thought the best way to get a high-precision spacing was to add all three comsats to a single rocket, put that rocket into a four-hour orbit, then decouple a comsat once per orbit. Yay for Kerbal Engineer Redux's informational readouts. Problem is, I "cleverly" put decouplers on both ends of the structure holding each comsat to the rocket, and the automatic labeling system decided that when I detached each comsat and the structure, it'd label the structure as a "Probe". Despite the structure being just two cubic girders and the decouplers. So, question: can I relabel these "Probes" as the "Debris" they actually are, ingame? They don't have command pods of any sort to right-click-relabel. I know I could just End the flights, but I'd prefer not to do that.
  3. Try this link instead: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=189681479 At a quick glance, you've got a complete loop going on between the central pod and the outriggers, which does Bad Things for determining where your fuel goes. Try to design your fuel distribution in a "tree" fashion - no matter where you start, you can't get back to your starting position. Then, you've also got the central tanks sandwiched between two quad adapters - because of the way the part assembly system works, only one of the second quad-adapter's four nodes is guaranteed to connect. The other three probably won't. In your case, it looks like you got lucky and had two nodes connect. To solve this problem, you'll need to add a double layer of docking connectors between the second-placed quad-adapter and the fuel tanks above it. See this thread for a lengthier description of how and why.
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