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[ank]

You do know click is short for kilometer?

Yes!  Yes I do!  I guess I should have spelled it Klik?  How does that work? 

I was like 700Km off, but you'd be amazed the DV in those EVA packs.  I was sure the little dude was going to die, it was probably the happiest moment of my KSPing when I actually managed to reach the target.  I only had to lead it a little bit.

It means the same thing, the word you are looking for is "meters".

If he was looking for metres then he would have said a few hundred thousand, rather than just a few hundred.

wait, he flies 700km (small k btw) with EVA packs? Dear space gods!

[LoSboccacc]

what's wrong with that? if you already are on a good vector you don't need a lot of dv.

I could go from kerbin to mun as well via jetpack, if I am already on a rocket passing by the mun soi.

[PTTG??]

The Kerbal Space Program works to further advance propulsion technology.

[BigD145]

Needs more feet...

[LoSboccacc]

specially liked how when it broke it actually moved better.

[puke]

wait, he flies 700km (small k btw) with EVA packs? Dear space gods!

Yeah, its not the distance; its that the little guy has no maneuver ball or orbital map to check his aim with.  The only thing to work with is the range counter on the distant ship in your HUD.

I guess my main point here, is that I just couldn't get the ships orbits to line up.  Coundn't make the rendezvous happen.  In the end, I was afraid to waste any more fuel for fear that I wouldn't be able to break orbit and return, so I took the closest approach and jumped.

Not sure why I couldn't do the same thing with one of the ships, it just seemed impossible to schedule a burn with the maneuver node that would get it where I needed it to be.

Maybe there is a better tutorial somewhere for orbital maneuvers and docking that I should read through.

[alway]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHkY3FusJIQ
Scott Manley has a pretty good tutorial on it.

Though really, I find a lot of it is getting a feel for when to switch over from orbital physics to newtonian motion in your head-calculations.

[miauw62]

I built my first rocket that gets a probe+some fuel to orbit WITHOUT being horribly overengineered! Wooo!

[Eric Blank]

So I got my munar expedition vessel all up in a stable orbit, all three component parts docked nice and tidy, and I figured I'd let mechjeb handle the transfer burn while I take a piss. I come back to find that the ship exploded or something, with debris being flung far and wide, including on escape trajectories out of Kerbin's SOI. Some of them pretty damn fast, and some of the debris is actually on escape trajectories out of the SUN'S SOI

Jeb, who had been in the lander capsule, was killed some point after the explosion, I'm guessing in a collision with other debris because his orbit appeared stable enough when I checked. Bill and Bob are in the science lab that was at the lower end of the stack when the accident occured. The lower half seems to be mostly intact, but lost its mechjeb unit, meaning I have no way to control the thing. Burned off all its fuel, too. Its orbit appears stable, But if it's on a collision course with any other debris there's nothing I could do about it because a rendevous to rescue them would take more than one orbit period to accomplish, and more likely than not any such collisions will happen in the first one or two passes. There is a LOT of debris to worry about up there, now.

I will never again take a piss with mechjeb yet to initiate a burn.

[BigD145]

MechJeb is version dependent. Some versions explode things.

[Twi]

Oh hey, article and news and stuff!

[My Name is Immaterial]

That was a good article.

[Mephansteras]

Huh. For some reason I thought Squad was Eastern European of some sort.

[PTTG??]

I'm really looking forward to the mission pack! The technical changes alone suggest that there will be some impressive new features...

[WillowLuman]

Landing on asteroids? Hoo boy!

We must celebrate. Launch all our best wine into space immediately.