Orbit Stays Hyperbolic

[Morzaniant]

I need some help here guys, not sure whats going on.

I captured an asteroid (class D) and I tried to put it into the orbit of the Mun. I arranged an encounter and then this happened.

As you can see, the orbit it hyperbolic, as it should be. But its stayed this way for over two full Munar Cycles.

Heres another picture

Any tips or suggestions for how to fix, or even what this is called?

[HoloYolo]

It's because you have a Kepler orbit with an eccentricy more then 1, you must slow down yourself into an orbit, that is what means. You aren't in orbit.

Edited April 25, 2015 by HoloYolo

[Xannari Ferrows]

KSP uses a system of newtonian motion, with no regard for relativistic effects. This means that you cannot be captured simply by just encountering. You have to manually match orbits.

[Morzaniant]

I get that I have to match orbits manually. What Im saying is that my spacecraft has not moved from this position for the game equivalent of two months; stayed right on the edge of this encounter, not moving toward the periapsis like it should. It gave me an estimated time of 14 minutes, but after two complete (time accelerated) lunar orbits, the craft has not moved.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Really? Hmm... well I'm assuming you've already gone through the book to check to usual fixes. Have you considered editing yourself into munnar orbit? It's always possible to pull your fuel levels down to compensate.

[worir4]

Have you just discovered a kerbal L point?????

[Green Baron]

Can think of situations where this could be ... usefull ...

But seriously ... does it have a speed (orbit, surface, target) ? Does speed change when you start the engine(s) ?

I would try to isolate one of the mods. Copy away the savefile and start with a clean install. If the ship moves in clean install it's one of the mods and the work begins.

k

[Streetwind]

There is a bug I've encountered before where your craft's velocity is zeroed out (and remains zeroed out) upon entering a SoI. I've only encountered it in modded instances, so it's probably a mod issue. Never was able to pin down the cause or how to reproduce it reliably, but it's very rare anyway. I think the most I ever got it in the same save was twice.

[Morzaniant]

After I looked up what an L Point was, I thought I was in one; but after the game was paused for a while and restarted, everything returned to normal. Thanks guys!

[Green Baron]

After I looked up what an L Point was, I thought I was in one; but after the game was paused for a while and restarted, everything returned to normal. Thanks guys!

If you mean Lagrange point, i'm sorry they don't exist in KSP, the concept of SOI stands against that. Spoken in pictures, you would have to be in two SOIs at the same time to meet the criteria of a Lagrange points.

k

[jfull]

I've seen this happen before, always involving asteroids.

Its a pretty bad bug

[DoToH]

Claw bug, probably. Weird things happen when you stop timewarp (and leave on rails mode) with someting attached (asteroid or another ship).

[Ten Key]

I had this happen once with a Minmus probe, no claw involved. It hung fixed in place for several hours-- I was finally able to kick it loose with the engine.