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[10ebbor10]

Dock, then rightclick on relevant fuel tanks. At least, so I heard.

[Karlito]

Right click on one fuel tank and then alt+right click on the other one. A menu will pop up.

[LoSboccacc]

twenty minutes of watching the patcher 'waiting on server' for 'determining what files you need'

to update just to 18.1!

seriously, drop it, it's DOA.

why can't they push the changed files and be done with it? it isn't like it is going to work with mod anyway (it tells right from the start it is going to overwrite anything different).

[Putnam]

Use the reset feature.

[LoSboccacc]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Another full download. Kill the patcher and do what every other is doing on their games

[Mageziya]

Is there a way to transfer progress? Like swapping the data file? Or would that bork it.

[LoSboccacc]

you can open it in a text editor, craft are pretty easily taken apart and pasted; there is even a 'social' savegame on the ksp forum.

btw, here is, finally, a good visualization of a 'free return' trajectory:

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basically you get on a reverse slingshot that slows you, and so you fall back on Kerbin

[andrea]

a few posts ago I said I would bring a rescue module up to orbit to rescue kerbonauts on failed station, and then dock with new station.

soon after launch, however, I noticed some *slight* flaws.
I forgot to add any RCS.
Module didn't have any small engines on it to help docking , so I had to use orbiting stage.
Orbiting stage was a mainsail engine with 2 large fuel tanks!

I decide to move the station then. well, turns out that keeping such a thing stable with RCS consumes a LOT of fuel. I run out fairly quickly, and have to use even less thrust ( only SAS to keep things stable).

so, I have a behemothiam crew module with little turning ability, and an unblanaced, RCSless station( thankfully with plenty of SAS power).
well, I started the interception burn already, so might as well try, right?
surprise! I actually manage to dock them!

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and it only took 2 tries. the first attempt bounced me away a little, but in such a way that I could just realign the crafts and try again, even more easily.
I docked 2 unsteerable crafts using only main engines! I feel like a genius! ( at least until somebody posts screenshots of huge and good looking stations. or the newest spaceplane, or a landing on jool moons or whatever).

you might, however, have noticed that I didn't mention how I recovered kerbonauts.
well, turns out I have a rather bad memory and I forgot. now I am 28 km away.
I'll probably wait for next intercept...

edit: next thing I do, however, is launch an RCS storage module. and perhaps set up a proper dock, so I can refuel all the empty tanks.

[da_nang]

So I had finally put up the space station core and was going to install a more fitting habitat module. By doing some science and reading I managed to intercept and maintain a suitable docking path. However, once docked I noticed the solar panels weren't parallell, so off I were to re-orient them.

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Turns out, this does not count as docking. Only after backing away a considerably longer distance and retrying did it finally dock.

[alway]

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After about half a dozen attempts, I finally docked my massive fuel module to my station. It has 5 orange fuel tanks. That was a pain and a half to get into orbit. My station now has 5 modules; 2 generic ones, 1 RCS and Ion fuel module, a power module, and the massive fuel module.

[LoSboccacc]

a lander catching the return stage on the fly

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lot of luck was involved.

I actually managed to catch up with the speed difference, but I had to reverse dock it because the lander lost the rcs fuel on ascent

[Mageziya]

I just realized something in 0.18.1

The building next to the launch pad has no skin.

What does this mean?

NEW UPDATE COMING REEAAAAAAAAL SOON.

EDIT: Oh crap the load save button doesn't work.

[alway]

No, that's the option at the start to send debug info to the devs.

[Karlito]

After about half a dozen attempts, I finally docked my massive fuel module to my station. It has 5 orange fuel tanks. That was a pain and a half to get into orbit. My station now has 5 modules; 2 generic ones, 1 RCS and Ion fuel module, a power module, and the massive fuel module.

How many orange fuel tanks did it take to get those 5 into orbit?

[LoSboccacc]

My guess is.. Those five thanks. He did not say that those were also full.