Remember that F5/F9 is really useful if you run out of it.Ĥ. A lower orbit is faster, while a higher orbit is slower.ģ. Your speed of approach is determined by how far above or below the tracking vehicle is in it's orbit with respect to the target's altitude. Get your orbital inclination and apsides to line up with the target.Ģ. Use the targeting feature in the map screen. It takes a lot of patience, but now it's a skill I can put on my Tinder profile.ġ. When you're at 65km, stop thrusting, circularise, discard everything, point it in the right direction and see how you go.Īfter my tentative first attempts at docking last week, I've been practising and I can now dock relatively easily. I built a simple positioning stage with one small monoprop tank, one small rocket fuel tank, one small rocket and four RCS thrusters. I'm on a polar orbit for simplicity's sake. But be sure it can see the sun at all times to keep it going, or the ion engine will suck all its electron juice in a flash. Get it into space using whatever ludicrous million-Lb-thrust-all-engine-creation you want to use. Those blocky little fin things near the rear are from the support struts to stop it wobbling at launch. The nose cone is optional but may reduce drag and add days to its flight, but I've not tested that. If you want to build one, it's just an ion engine, four xenon tanks, a battery, a controller with reaction wheels (in the middle for good torque control), and a bank of solar panels to power the ion reaction. It's too bad the game won't let me leave it and go do other things, as it won't autosave while in atmosphere. It'll probably fly for weeks with that much xenon.
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