Satellite contract... will not complete... going the correct way....

[Jadwack]

I CANNOT... complete a Satellite contract... Everything is checked except the orbit.... I'm going the right way.. both nodes are at 0%... and the AP PE are both within 5K meters.... This is holy excrements frustrating.... 

[monstah]

Do you have a screenshot? There's no way we can tell what is it that you're missing just from that description.

[Jadwack]

https://imgur.com/D9M81xn 

https://imgur.com/oJOmuOv

https://imgur.com/XyFBTqm

https://imgur.com/tAwgqkt

 

Let me know if you need some others!

[dvp]

Some of the contracts are pickier than others - I think the margin of error is smaller for 2- and 3-star missions. Try to get the AP/PE within 2km or so.

[bewing]

Zoom in on your ship when you are near Pe, and look for the spot where the two orbits are closest to each other. That's where you need to burn (prograde). You just need to give it a little bit more. Adjusting the thrust on your engines down to 5% can be very helpful in doing this.

 

Edited September 13, 2017 by bewing

[mk1980]

it's almost there, but apparently not close enough yet. set a maneuver node at Pe to get an exact overlap. it looks like it's also a bit off radially (can't tell for sure from the images), so you may have to add a small radial or antiradial component to the maneuver (the vectors with the light blue icons) to rotate the whole orbit to the correct alignment.

that burn should be cheap. only a few m/s.