Who else hates docking?

[Kerbart]

Practice until it becomes second nature. Do it enough and the activity is as trivial as making it into orbit or landing on Mun.

[Mahnarch]

3 hours ago, Kerbart said:

Practice until it becomes second nature. Do it enough and the activity is as trivial as making it into orbit or landing on Mun.

I used MechJeb the first couple times as a tutorial, basically. But, it used a ton of monoprop, I noticed.

Now, I dock while watching TV, it's so routine to me. And, I can do it manually for less than 20 units of mono.

 

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Something I forgot to mention to the OP; make sure you have your docking vessels in an uppy/downy orientation.

Life is much easier this way.

Edited October 25, 2022 by Mahnarch
Added uppy/downy part

[se5a]

If you've got a sas modual or a good enough pilot kerbal then this is the easiest way:

Get close to your target, cut your ralitive speed to 0.

point your docking port to your targets docking port.

select the docking port on your ship and click "Control from here"

Target your *Targets docking port*

do sas point at target.

use RCS to slowly bring yourself to dock.

If your target can rotate it's even easier:

Switch to the target, Control from it's docking port, target your ships docking port and sas point. switch back to your original ship.

your target will stay on sas and keep it's docking port pointed at your docking port, with both your target and your ship both controlling from,  targeting and pointing at each other's docking ports, it's extremely easy to just rcs yourself to

a perfect dock.

 

In a nutshell:

Control From Here on my Docking Port

Target targets Docking Port component.

SAS Point at Target.