Inclined takeoff

[technion]

Hey guys,

After finally managing my first Laythe landing, I've run into an issue I wasn't expecting. See this slight incline I've landed on?

I've seen tonnes of threads about landers flipping over and failing to land. I didn't have that problem. I do find however, on take off, it's virtually impossible to right that angle and the rocket ends up flying into the ground. I became convinced that the rocket was unbalanced in some way, although it flew fine on Kerbin and made the trip here without a problem.

I did once manage to correct it with RCS, but by that time, I'd floated in circles for so long there was no way I was making orbit. I did however go straight up and prove there's nothing unbalanced.

Is this a design issue or do I just need to revert to an earlier save and try and land somewhere flatter?

[PrivateFlip]

Is there any visible cause for an unbalance, like for instance a fuel imbalance. If you know the cause of the unbalance or at least the direction of the unbalance you can try to correct it by redividing the fuel between tanks.

[technion]

I checked all the fuel tanks and they were all even. There's only one monopropellant tank and as you can see, I virtually haven't burnt any of the rest of it.

[Nao]

@ PrivateFlip from the look at resource tab there seems to be no fuel imbalance of any significance.

From the screenshot i do see that one of the legs is deep under sand, it's possible that it got stuck there, if the rockets flips violently right after launch it could be the case of stuck leg. Try retracting and extending your gear if that is the case.

[Trux]

Could the issue be the lack of gimbaling from the Aerospike engines?

[technion]

@ PrivateFlip from the look at resource tab there seems to be no fuel imbalance of any significance.

From the screenshot i do see that one of the legs is deep under sand, it's possible that it got stuck there, if the rockets flips violently right after launch it could be the case of stuck leg. Try retracting and extending your gear if that is the case.

Boom, that was it. Thanks!

[Motokid600]

Do you have a CM in orbit? If so I'd say that's way to much go-juice

for Laythe. But if that craft has to make the burn home then nevermind.