Docking V2: From the Launchpad to the Asteroid Redirect Mission (+ MOAR MANEUVERS!)

[Starwhip]

Welcome to yet another tutorial by yours truly! If you don't remember the old one, or you've never seen it, or you just feel like looking at an old thread, there's a link to it in my signature. Check it out.

This tutorial is going to cover these scenarios.

Craft Construction

Navball Basics

Flight Basics

Orbital Mechanics and Maneuver Nodes

Rendezvous

Docking and RCS Tutorial

Rendezvous and Docking from Launch

Inclined Orbit 01

Inclined Orbit 02

Elliptical Orbit 01

Elliptical Orbit 02

Asteroid Training 01

Asteroid Training 02

Asteroid on Flyby Trajectory

Asteroid on Impact Trajectory

Extreme Scenario 01 - 2 Thruster Docking

Extreme Scenario 02 - Misaligned Thruster Docking

Extreme Scenario 03 - No Thruster Docking

EDIT: The "Rendezvous" scenario will be using a Kerbal as a target, to simulate the "Rescue this little bugger from Orbit" contracts.

Each scenario will be its own quicksave as well, so you may play along to the tutorial that is posted here.

As of yet, I have not been able to get my stuff together, what with all the school projects and competitions and after-school odds and ends, let alone make the tutorial. (I was about halfway through when the Hell Kraken ate my entire KSP. )

So, just letting you guys know early on.

If there is anything else that you would like to see featured here, please, let me know, by private message or posting here. (Or both, who cares? ) I'll gladly include it. [Provided it actually pertains to docking and such, if you want to lean how to build SSTO's that's not my problem ]

I should be able to get on this project soon*, so keep on the lookout!

[*Note: Not Soon, soon soon.]

EDIT:

Ooh, guess what I just realized: I haven't docked in KSP in over a month!

Oh, boy, fun times ahead. But hey, looky here!

This time it's going to be two identical ships instead of a ship and a station. (For starters, anyways)

Edited November 11, 2014 by Starwhip

[Specialist290]

I'll be keeping an eye on this

[Starwhip]

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P.S: A

at the launcher...

(I've got the screenshots for Craft Construction, Docking from Launch and Flight sections done now.)