The Chain Station - An exercise in double-docking

[jamis]

While I had originally played KSP "plain" -- no mods, at all -- and got quite far with it, I've noticed that recently I've been growing more and more dependent on MechJeb and other mods. In order to prove to myself that I could still do the "hard stuff" without any mods, I began a few different projects in a fresh install of KSP.

One of these projects is my new "Chain Station" -- five double-docked segments with sufficient housing for ten kerbals. (Only four are living there currently, though.)

Behold:

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I would have made it much longer, if I could, but I didn't want to abuse my poor, 6-year-old computer any more than I had to. (If I ever get a new computer, I'll definitely try something more ambitious.)

[Geschosskopf]

Heheh, that's purdy

[Impatience]

Okay, thats pretty damn cool making it look like a chain. I'm gonna have to steal that idea some time soon me thinks. Thanks for sharing!

[Nepos]

Very Nice looking creation

[merendel]

Thats pretty neat. nice work doing that stock. I'd at least have needed the docking port alignment mod to pull off a double docking.

[randomness5555]

Docking with two ports at once DOES work then? I'd never tried it.

[merendel]

Docking with two ports at once DOES work then? I'd never tried it.

It works and was a common pratice for stronger docking connections before they added the SR docking port. The trick is you need to be very precise in your alignment. If your a degree or two off only the first one will connect. Placing 3 on a tri addaptor was the most common configuration I've seen in videos. I'v also seen a few other double docked ring shaped stations people have come up with.