Dock "passively" with the Claw

[Green Baron]

Hi,

it's possibly a silly question and/or has been answered before but a brief search didn't help.

Is it possibe to fly with an asteroid clawed to a tug into a claw connected to a station and thus dock - one after the other - more than one asteroid to the station ? Mayhaps someone knows, and before i make too many circles in the sky ....

[Red Iron Crown]

It is possible. Just be careful that the vessel with the Claw is the active one when the connection is made, otherwise Bad Things happen.

[Hagen von Tronje]

Yes and no.

Yes, you can daisy chain asteroids.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/129068-5-asteroid-chain-in-Kerbin-Orbit

But I'm pretty sure pushing asteroids into a claw mounted on another ship will cause the game to crash just like with any other vessel unless you install Claw's (the moderator, not the part) bugfix patch found here:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/97285-KSP-v0-90-Stock-Bug-Fix-Modules-%28Release-v0-1-7d-28-Feb-15%29-Misc-Utilities-%2818-Jan-15%29

[Green Baron]

Thanks a lot,

well, i gave up and decided to first mount a docking port to the asteroid opposite to the tug and then dock port to port. I was never good at jump&run games, and not being able to set the claw as target almost made me throw the mouse @ the wall when i razed the solar panels, pushed the station into evasive rotation or passed the thing at a few meters distance.

Really, i never miss when docking, but in this case the masses are just too high and the whole cartload is too inert for me to fly it to a point with am acceptable accuracy ...

Ok, no more excuses, plan B, but thanx :-)

k