Target changing velocity on rendezvous

[Kalbol]

Hi there,

I've experienced few times a bug when I reach a target on rendezvous. Once I get close enough to load the target (2.3km) it suddenly chage it's velocity to mine and therefore changing his orbit.

Here is the video : https://youtu.be/96WTRDT5eQo

The target is a big station 106 parts and take a while to load

Any idea ?

Cheers

 

[odmonk]

I've been experiencing exactly this also. The only workaround for me so far is to cancel the target setting before I get too close, establish my orbit to be similar to the desired target, and THEN approach, so once the target is close the change in its orbit is minimal. I am then able to dock normally. It is really easy to demonstrate this with precision flying without mods, or with MechJeb2 "launch to rendezvous".

What appears to be happening is the target orbit parameters but not position are copied from the approaching craft. So in case of launch to rendezvous on first approach the target is suddenly deorbiting (since I will be in the middle of my circularization burn).

I found this described on reddit in https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/cv6szn/rendezvous_bug/ affecting both PC (modded) and Xbox (obviously unmodded).