video guide to RCS design, maneuvering and orbital rendezvous.

[Colonel_Panic]

I kept seeing a lot of questions about this, so hopefully this clears them up. Cheers.

[redteddy23]

Very nice guide. Any advice on making super efficient craft is very interesting.

[Joe_Bender]

Great vid, now I need to relook at some of my FailFits to see what I need to correct.

BTW, I saw some non stock command modules, what mod is that, if I may ask?

[Colonel_Panic]

Great vid, now I need to relook at some of my FailFits to see what I need to correct.

BTW, I saw some non stock command modules, what mod is that, if I may ask?

Those are all mechjeb probe modules (that I never use). They come with the MJ plugin, but I prefer to just use the radial style MJ control addon since it's easier to remove from craft to make them stock.

[Mokmo]

Many of my big ships are failfits in this aspect...

[Colonel_Panic]

Many of my big ships are failfits in this aspect...

Big ships can be especially hard to balance, since they often contain a lot of odd symmetry and multiple radial fuel tanks. With enough tweaking though you can devise a plan to manage your center of mass for better RCS design and docking. Consider different ways you can manage fuel flow to drain the tanks in an order that starts on the outside, top and bottom, and moves toward the center. Also consider control groups for toggleable RCS thrusters at the extremeties, in the event you need to deal with a shifted load, or a staged rendezvous module.

[Dortmunder]

I'll have to check this out when I have some more spare time

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