Could a claw catch up a ship?

[Frank_Black]

It is really exciting to grasp an asteroid, but earlier today I left a ship on orbit without any fuel. Then I built a 'clawer' to catch it up, but the problem is that I cannot target the ship! Was it just a bug or we cannot use a claw to catch up our own ships?

Edited April 12, 2014 by Frank_Black

[Vanamonde]

The claw will grab ships, Kerbals, and debris, in addition to asteroids.

[Epthelyn]

You should be able to rendezvous with a ship regardless of whether or not it has a claw on it. If you can't target it then you have more than just difficulties with the Advanced Grabbing Unit and you've probably either broken the target in some way, failed to click on it to target it correctly, or you've encountered a bug.

As for using the claw to rescue ships, you can do that. Perfect for clearing debris and rescuing Kerbals stranded by asteroid-based Kraken attacks

[Claw]

Sometimes I have trouble targeting from visual mode (Not sure if that's what you're doing.) If that's the case, you can usually target from the map view.

[Frank_Black]

Ok, I will try it again~:)Thx~

[Frank_Black]

You should be able to rendezvous with a ship regardless of whether or not it has a claw on it. If you can't target it then you have more than just difficulties with the Advanced Grabbing Unit and you've probably either broken the target in some way, failed to click on it to target it correctly, or you've encountered a bug.

As for using the claw to rescue ships, you can do that. Perfect for clearing debris and rescuing Kerbals stranded by asteroid-based Kraken attacks

I did not notice anything like Advanced Grabbing Unit:) Thanks for help~

[Frank_Black]

Thanks all! I've tried it later, and find that the Claw works perfectly catching up ships:)

[cantab]

The Advanced Grabbing Unit is the proper name for the claw, btw.

[spumco1]

Hi, I built a ship with 2 AGU's at the front in order to catch a ship orbiting Duna. I have activated the claws and have the ship cradled in the jaws but I wont grab hold. Any Ideas?

[ColdWarrior000]

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