Rendezvous contract won't complete

[KennyOMG]

Picked up the rendezvous contract yesterday for a new carrier, says bring 2 ships within sight of each other and kill the relative velocity. I have 2 pods within 20m of each other, 0.0m/s relative velocity on a 70.1-70.4 orbit, yet contract is not completed. Am I missing something here?

Also, flying without conics/nodes is damn heroic, feels like Apollo 13'ing every single mission.

Edited July 27, 2015 by KennyOMG

[DeMatt]

Try opening the Contracts tab and looking at the checklist for your rendezvous contract. Are there any other checkmarks not marked?

[KennyOMG]

Well, this, really.

Also, happy Valentina couldn't be happier to see Jeb.

eta: I pushed Jeb's pod to higher orbit and lower orbit using Val's engines (can't bet closer than that) but still nothing happened.

Edited July 26, 2015 by KennyOMG

[ForScience6686]

Did the two pods come from the same launch? If I recall correctly it must be two separate vehicles.

[KennyOMG]

Separate launches, both built + launched after I picked up the contract. It was real fun to rendezvous them without nodes/cones.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

Did you try switching ships using [ ?

[KennyOMG]

Yes, nothing happens. My main issue is that I'm tight on budget...

[Reactordrone]

Are they both in orbit? Your height is very close to the top of the atmosphere, if one is slightly lower it might be in a suborbital condition stopping the contract from completing.

[KennyOMG]

Val: 70,400-71,468

Jeb: 70,396-71,480

Not burning more fuel than required. I guess worst case I can just try to edit the save file (while peeking around I also discovered that Val grins like a monkey because she's also BadS).

[FancyMouse]

20m or 20km? [] switch becomes available within 2.25km. It shouldn't be "nothing happens"

[DeMatt]

Val: 70,400-71,468

Jeb: 70,396-71,480

Not burning more fuel than required. I guess worst case I can just try to edit the save file (while peeking around I also discovered that Val grins like a monkey because she's also BadS).

There's only two other things I can think of to suggest... 1) check the detailed contract view in Mission Control and see if it says anything else; 2) try activating timewarp and see if it merely takes some flight time to detect the rendezvous. Beyond that, yeah, edit the save file.

20m or 20km? [] switch becomes available within 2.25km. It shouldn't be "nothing happens"

...I assume KennyOMG means "I switch vessels, but the contract is unaffected".

[KennyOMG]

DeMatt is correct in his assumption, nothing happened when I switched between the 2 pods, when I let them orbit forever (except of course they slowly drifted apart), etc. No matter what, it just didn't complete.

In the end I edited the save, set the contract to completed, added the funds+sci+rep manually and called it a day.