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I have been fruitlessly trying to design a craft that would, in the same run, place a satellite in a polar orbit on Mun and also have a main, manned cockpit for other chores around the Mun. My issue arises when I decouple or undock the little satellite on top. When I used a stack separator the satellite did not become controllable. I selected the "debris" from Mission tracker, however it became offset to what seemed like a Mun's pole (way far from the original part) and it just fell straight to the ground. I, then, used a docking port (actually two, at first, but noticed they would become stuck, so decided to use just one!) and performed the decoupling using the port in Kerbin's suborbital flight. Now the satellite would first be controllable, however as soon as I moved back to the main craft it would just disappear. I am trying to understand what is happening: is this a bug with the game, am I incorrectly building such a craft or is there something else I'm not seeing? Game is vanilla, no mods, Steam under Linux. Version 1.11.0.3045. Otherwise no issues. In the accompanying image, the satellite is right on top of the Mk1 capsule (which is manned). -
I once made an ion craft in a sandbox game and spun it out to Duna but it was able to do it in a single burn. When I watch videos on youtube I often see people doing multiple burns at periapsis to take advantage of the oberth effect, which I get. What I don't know though is how do you calculate what burn you need to do the transfers? Obviously you can't set up a single node ( or maybe you do ) for a single burn and surely after say 5 burns the planet your orbiting will be a day or 6 ahead in it's orbit so how do you know if you're still on target? The only video I've seen that even briefly covered how to do it was one of Matt Lowne's but it was very brief, I didn't quite get it the first time around and now I can't find which video it was. Can someone explain it to me or direct me to a guide on the subject?
