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Perform orbital 'docking' manuever.


Krenn

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I\'ve already done this once, so i know it\'s possible.

Take a rocket into Kerbal orbit, with at least two stages: a large \'orbital lift\' stage\', and a smaller \'orbital manuever\' stage.

decouple the \'lift stage\' in a stable orbit, and wait a few seconds for it to move a small distance away from you.

then, use your \'orbital manuever\' stage to match velocities, and \'bump\' (or crash) into the side of your previous stage.

any reasonable mods are permissible: I used lander legs to stabilize my rocket on the launchpad, and the MPC small tank and small engine for the orbital manuevers.

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Tried this once with a station (DERP + AE) - RCS makes it rather easy... Like that Salyut7 restoration mission when they docked Soyuz to a completely deactivated station without possibility to use most of docking navigation (the only such case in spaceflight history)

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