@@mrfishsticks6787 I am struggling, I play on x box and I can get my inclination at 0 and I can my intersect at 0.1k and I still cannot get close enough to dock. I hate it, plus so many bugs on x box version and you cant debug, if you can, I dont know how
@@deweylund5784 did you set your navball to the Target and burned retrograde to your speed compared to the Target is at zero Point towards the Target on the navball and use RCS to keep the prograde in the center with the Target and use your RCs to reach the target preferably 0.2 as far as speed time-warp every now and again and every time the pro grade veers off Target cut-off time warp adjust and repeat eventually you will rendezvous once you get within a hundred you could Target their docking port
@@deweylund5784 and the only brother I've experienced on here is when is sent me back to the home screen on Xbox but that only happens like twice remember this game since November remember to save your game a lot bro you don't want to lose your hard work
Thanks to Scott I've gone, in two days, from not being able to orbit reliably to orbiting, modifying my orbits, doing a Mun flyby, and planting a satellite in keosynchronous orbit... Above a specific spot no less. I've learned so much about orbital mechanics and KSP mechanics. So good. Thank you so much!
So many complicated tutorials. In the end I just thought ''fk it, I'll find out myself'', and this is how I did it: 1st part:(Skip this part if you're aware of the basics of the game) - Before launching, attach Thrusters to the side of your spaceshuttle. - Right-click on your spacestation (or whatever you want to dock at) and set it as your target. - Orbit the planet at about the same height as your spacestation; it's ok to be far off the spacestation, as long as you're not falling back down to the planet. - Timewarp until you get close to your spacestation. It does not matter if you're like 100 miles away from it. 2nd part:(only read this part if you're aware of the basics of the game) - Set your RCS and SAS on ''target''. And just launch yourself towards the target. If you get close (within a few miles) or if you fly past your target, set your RCS and SAS to ''retrograde'' until your orbital speed is around 0 m/s. - Rinse and repeat until you're docked. THAT IS ALL! All you have to do is: fly towards your target and retrograde if you get close or fly past it and repeat the process until you're docked. It's great that so many people are making (complicated) guides for this but it's really only 2 buttons you have to be aware of. Using my strategy it nowadays only takes me mere minutes from launch to docking to get it all done.
I can see how you found this method to be easier than what it displayed in Scott's tutorial. However' I've been playing this every other day for years now, and your method confuses me and seems rather challenging while Scott's seems to be the easiest and less tedious. It's interesting how we all learn things differently.
after watching your videos, i finally decided to send up my own station. At first it seemed like a tough task but after the first rendezvous it was a cake walk! Now I have a decent-sized station with escape pods and comms and science, and Im proud of it!
I never understood why people say Cake walk. I know the expressions: As easy as eating cake and A walk in a park. I don't know why people combine them Good looking Fireblade, by the way
@@pluransart1795 yooo I know this was 5 years ago but you’re familiar with a cake walk right? It’s basically musical chairs and the winner wins a cake. Easy. That’s where the expression comes from.
11:41 reminds me of a Tom Lehrer song... "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."
If you want to bring home your Kerbal pilot on the same spacecraft, be sure to add a parachute to the docker. Although taking another craft to Spacestation X to rescue your Kerbal will be good practice.
Gabe Skid Haha I wasn't talking about the video I was talking about spelling. I love what Scott has to say he always has little things that make me go off and study
"...longer than most people's attention span." Hah! I am glued to the screen! I'd forgotten how much fun this simulation is. But Christmas (Feb 24, 2023) is just a week away. I can hardly wait.
You are amazing! I JUST got into circular orbit around the planet, but seeing how many in depth tutorials you have is amazing. I know the game is complicated, but you seriously help alleviate that A LOT! Keep at it!!
Scott, I came across your KSP videos on accident and thought the game looked so cool. I bought the game and now am obsessed. Your videos are such a huge help! Keep up the great work.
Thanks Scott! I actually followed your instructions and put my first part into and equatorial orbit :). I finally did it and I'm now building a space station.
Instead of going into the same 120 km orbit directly, you could have also gone into a lower orbit (say 80 - 100 km) to catch up to the station. It's a slightly more efficient alternative to going up 120, circularizing, and then burning retro, then burning prograde to make the rendezvous. Just a an alternative. =)
blizzy1978 It follows a step by step process - do something, wait, do something else. Breaking it down into steps is a good way to teach. As for a hohmann transfer, that requires powers of 3/2, while this, at most requires multiplying by the number 7.
Oh yeah, I understand that this is for new players and I'm certainly not saying you did it wrong. My purpose in mentioning that was simply to point out to new players that it's not *necessary* to reach the same orbital altitude first. I see that done in so many videos I feel like it's an assumption that gets learned and never broken. Love the videos, keep them coming!
I threw my headphones at my monitor the first time I tried, I kept dinking the docking port and moving the damn space craft back another 40m, as soon as I docked the first time I let go of every fucking muscle and let go of breath. Then I fucked up by undocking cause I wanted to line up the windows and it went away from me. I quit ksp for a day cause of that shit fuck that.
I pussied out on rendezvous for the longest time, it's one of the biggest learning hurdles in KSP. But when you learn it, it's hella fun to mess around with it. Here's a basic step by step: 1.) Make sure your intercept ship has quite a bit of fuel, rendezvous can be pretty consuming. 2.) Launch your intercept ship in a lower orbit than your target > I've been told to launch when the target is near KSC, but i found out that it won't matter much, you can still make a good rendezvous. 3.) Select your target ship and click Set as Target. 4.) Click on either the ascending or descending node. Make a maneuver node, messing around with the Normal and Anti-normal (up and down in the maneuver node widget) till both your AN/DN are 0.0 degrees. Burn. 5.) Make a prograde maneuver to match your apoapsis with the target's orbit. You should be getting intercept nodes. Burn. 6.) Mess around with the prograde and retrograde to get a close intercept. Target position and intercept ship position are indicated by either purple or orange arrows. 1-3 km separation is acceptable. Burn. The arrows should be closer now. 7.) Click on the intercept arrows to find out your relative velocity. You can make a retrograde maneuver, but it's less confusing to eyeball and kill relative velocity. 8.) Now with you close to your target with low relative velocity, you can now mess around with your engines and RCS thrusters to maneuver towards your target ship. Target and Anti-target SAS functions should help you out, especially in docking.
Ayyyyyy 1mil subs! I dont know when the channel reached 1mil, but right now it says 1.02mil! Whether it was in the last few days, or the last few months, congratulations!
Wonderful tutorial Scott. I've been looking forward to a tutorial on this for quite some time. I can't wait to get home and start my first space station. :)
Summary: Get into an orbit close to target orbit. Perform manoeuvre to line up.Set as target. Burn prograde at apoapsis and periapsis if in front of target, Retrograde at apoapsis and periapsis if target is in front (Do it about 10,000km from target(or maybe closer?))Be PATIENT and let craft speed up or slow down depending on your position in relation to the target. Once craft to be docked to is close gently ease in with RCS. DOCK! This was my understanding of the video and it helped me dock with something in simpleRockets, only thing is that docking is simpler due to no normal/antinormal adjustments. If this is incorrect please add to this in the comments below to help out beginners or even to help out myself. Last thing: this is really basic, if you want a precise guide, WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO!
Am not new to the game. I know how` to orbit and detach and stuff like that. But I had no idea how to dock/make a space station. But thanks to you I know now! You just earnt another subscriber and like!
I been trying to figure things out by myself until now, but I couldn't do rendezvous to save my life. This video's been very helpful! Turns out having solar panels and RCS thrusters is kind of important ;P
Easy Clarckson method:0. Have a big ass rocket with a lot of power on deck 1. Wait till the station is about to pass your rocket. 2. Get into same altitude as the station4 burn to Target marker till you reach your station on the screen5. Start retrograde burns relitive to your target to get close in slower speeds (>100m/s)6. Drop stage and dock
This helped thank you, my first time trying to rendezvous (before watching this video) I remember flying past my target at about 200m/s faster than it but was also 5 km away :(
+kierankay100 i'm not gonna judge you're english but, you are right it is very hard this is probably the hardest feature in the game i spent a good amount of hours until i finished the docking tutorial and then i made my own scenario in my world where i had a fuel tank and i am trying to dock a Research Lab to it and i am still trying to dock to it, i think the goal is to try and thrust towards the target not to fast or slow but the closer you are and the slower you are basicly if you are 20 centimeters away from your target and you are at the same speed your orbits are basicly the same as well so try getting close and then using rcs to slow yourself down, then get closer and slow down rinse and repeat and eventually you might get it, don't forget rcs is very useful almost a necessity since it's much slower for precision you don't wanna crash into your target EDIT as of writing this i managed to successfully dock a Research lab to the fuel tank, so from my understanding you need to get as close as you can to your target and then burn retrograde when the navball is set to target then make sure you aren't too fast or too slow or faraway then try to dock remember to quicksave and when close enough turn off rcs and sas and let the magnets do their job
really dude ? WTF i commented on this 5 months ago, and all you did to further develop this comment chain is, basically just... what exactly ? first of all i said that i am not gonna judge him AND I DID NOT, yet you still fucking have to be a keyboard warrior or a social justice warrior, for what reason exactly ? and about my english if you mean spelling dont worry i got google to auto correct me there, however if you mean the structure of my sentence by which i mean a lack of grammar then i really dont give a fuck at least i can fucking put a sentence together in the right sequence of what word is first and so on, K ? honestly the only thing you managed to do is make me cringe, for basically "attacking" me for something i didnt even do i mean i tried to help the guy for fuck sacked, CAN YOU NOT SEE THE MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT THAT HAS NO PARAGRAPH SEPARATION PLUS I ALSO ADDed EVEN MORE INFO TO THE COMMENT AFTER I POSTED IT, SO IF YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO JUST COMMENT HERE SAYING WHAT YOU SAID... OH WAIT YOU DID THEN I REALLY DON'T WANT THIS THREAD TO GO ANY FURTHER, which is why i am going to mute this post so i wont get bombarded with your opinion on what i said also judging by your profile picture username and channel content, i can easily confirm that you sir are a troll which is why i don't want to even have a decent... WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THIS finally i will just say you are going to reply with either TL;DR... well shit there goes my time not that i care but still, secondly English is not my main language i prefer it over my main country of origin language but it still isn't my main one but at least AGAIN i can put a sentence together MINUS GRAMMAR. one last thing, FUCK OFF
The Satanic Gamer From Hell The fact that you even mentioned his grammar 'i'm not gonna judge you're english but' (which in itself have 3 mistakes in it) makes you portray yourself as someone who is *far* superior in English en linguistic skills, someone who has given themselves the right to talk about other people's grammar as if you were better. As for your spelling and grammar (grammar is *not* only putting words in the right order), it's shit, even when you were correcting me on the "fact" that you do have good grammar. About the necro-ing. No shits were given about the time and date you commented, having as bad grammar as you do, you needed to be corrected. Also, a 'Social Justice Warrior' (it has to be capitalized since it is a title, dummy) and 'Keyboard Warrior' (again, capitalization), generally strive to push their beliefs down other people's collective throats. No beliefs or opinions were stated in my comment, indicating the i am not to be titled a 'Social Justice Warrior' or 'Keyboard Warrior', but rather something known on the internet as a 'Grammar Nazi'.
Oh Wow...the "How to SpaceStation..." suggestion has come to life?!! Thank you Scott! P.S. The (new) end credits are awesome! I've seen that 'planet' somewhere before?!!!!
You said in the end you will cut this in 2 parts because otherwise it would be longer then peoples attention span. Well... I fell asleep halfway xD I think it was due to the fact I had 7 hours of sleep in the last 3 days, but defenitly not because this was boring. Love your videos scott, and I love your voice, makes me fall asleep :P
Hi. let me explain how i did this. So i think you know harry potter and so also Ron. There you got the first part of how to spell it. for the "de" you can take a the but be more gently with the t and add some bass so that it sound like a d. For "vou" you just take who and try to spell it with a v instead of a w but keep the rest. And there you go you can finally spell rondevou. :P Back to topic. I struggled at first with matching velo's but than there was a rondevou scenario tutorial mission available that explains everything you need and could even use for interplanetary flights.
Smikefliege It's actually rendezvous, but you also start sentences with and and don't know the difference between then and than so not much is expected of you..
A tip for new space station managers, it is a good idea to orient your station so it is aligned so it is perpendicular to its orbit. That way the station does not block its own solar panels.
Scott Manley Which capturing software/hardware are you using. If you use shadowplay I can understand why the quality is not super great. But if not, you might need to up the render quality before uploading to youtube. But don't get me wrong. It's not bad, just a bit "milky" and those things can be worked around.
11:11 I think at this phase of the start you should rotate your rocket so that the PV and the TV are on the right and left side. so you only have to press D to "aim" for the TV. in your case at 10km it was difficult to aim for the TV by pressing W & D.
You can change the color of lights by right-clicking and tweaking the red, green, and blue, so you can do port and starboard navigation lights (red and green) fyi
The way I learned how to rendezvous didn't teach me to utilize launch windows. I'm too lazy to care about that so i just do this: 1. Match planes 2. Burn prograde till orbit intersects with target orbit 3. Mess around with prograde and retrograde maneuver nodes till I get an encounter that's close enough 4. Fire engines retrograde (if your ship is faster than the target) or prograde (if your ship is slower than the target) on closest approach to kill relative velocity Boom, now you hit f5 and worry about docking next. By the way details like closest approach, time to closest approach, relative velocity, and inclination difference can be seen using the Map view, but having the Kerbal Engineer Redux mod is better since you get these information in your main flight HUD without the need to actually click on the nodes in Map view.
For a beginners Tutorial the launching part sound pretty difficult. Waiting until the two ships align and the launch so the will meet when you reach a stable orbit, was always very confusing when I was a KSP amateur. It is much simpler to understand rendezvousing if you shoot one spaceship in a higher orbit than the other and wait until they are in the right position and then do a transfer burn so the will meet.
I added four small solar panels to the final stage of the rocket (not including the space station part itself) and I also added a Remote Guidance Unit, then I used the remainder of the fuel to make it fall back to Earth. My OCD spans that far and further, haha. In fact my OCD made me redo the whole process of taking off and sending the Space Station base into orbit four or so times because of small reasons like that :p
Nice tutorials you got there. I started career on Easy, got to Mun and Minimus once... now I got no clue what to do next. Got bored with it so I went to try Moderate, orbited Kerbin once and I ve got no science to make landing on Minimus look like realistic mission. And testing contracts give way less science than before, so spamming them is out of the question. I m quite clueless. :D Aside from that, space stations, land bases and docking are things I ll seemingly never master...
+Scott Manley, I did every thing you instructed and got an intersection with my space probe that was within 2 km, however when I came out of map mode to make my final movements towards my probe, the green dotted square that indicates your target was not showing to help me find the probe. Because of this I was not able to dock with the probe, do you know why the indicator did not show up? Additional note: I used a different AI pod to go up, I used the RC-0015 Remote Guidance Unit for both (this could be why it didn't show up). Any feedback would be great, thanks :)
At around 3:25 when you get the Lifter, how does it connect to the space station thingy? It doesn't work, and I followed your tutorials exactly. Please help.
No, I didn't mean in space, I meant when he's connecting the Lifter to the space station module in the VAB. I know how to dock in space, and thanks for telling me a bit more about it, but I built the two parts and they won't connect via the way he does it, in the VAB.
I would love a tutorial on how to time launches and rendezvous with the minimal amount of raising/lowering orbits to catch up to the target. I've almost pulled it off a couple of times, but any more actual info would be useful...
I found wide angle lights mostly useless for lighting up the craft I am docking to, they have too small range. If the craft is not lighting up itself and you happen to dock on the night side you see nothing until you're too close for comfort. They're useful for the station/ship to shine on itself, though.
Hi there from version 1.0.5! I have a quick question. Of course in this tutorial, 1.0 hadn't even existed until now but I have some problems. I have problems trying to get into orbit with small ships, and potentially getting back. I'm expirementing how I can perfect it now and still have a ton of fuel left to go back on my journey. Mostly, in Career mode(with money) I would go and put a T-45 Swivel on top of a decoupler with a solid rocket booster. I also have problems getting to other planets and back. I tried to use MechJeb to help me create a maneuver to go to Eve with the least delta V. I'm happy it didn't take long. Little did I know that it wasted almost all of my fuel on my way back and left me only the little lander with only a small engine and a tiny fuel tank. Any way I can improve this? I am really screwed when it comes to interplanetary missions.
try apollo style: once at the planet, leave the ship in orbit around it and undock the lander. land, do shit, and rendevouz with the main ship before going back.
+bob appellover a tip if you plan to do the Apollo style mission is to launch from the surface of the moon or planet when the spacecraft on orbit is pretty close.
A note on space station lights to all the new comers, download Aviation Lights. Full set of colored lights that can be set to flash in intervals and such.
I was wondering if you ran KSP in 64 bit? I tried following your guide to installing mods and failed. KSP would not run and would error out during the loading.
It doesn't matter if you're going into a higher orbit or a lower orbit depending on whether the target is behind or in front of you. It works both ways. Either one catches up on the other.
No it does not. To reduce the number of orbits you need to wait, you just move one vessel in a higher orbit and the other in a lower orbit. It does not matter which is which.
blizzy1978 I'll give you an example because other beginners might be reading this. Say you launch a rocket and you end up in a higher circular orbit than your target, with the target being in front of you. You can then just burn retrograde (slow down) for the rendezvous, but to get the closest approach the target must be at an optimal distance in front of you. If the target is much further than needed to get an optimal distance you have to wait for it to catch up and it also must get in front of you again in a closer distance and that would mean covering a relative distance of a full orbit, which is many many actual orbits later. Instead, you can go to a lower orbit than your target and you can catch up with it 1 or 2 orbits later.
You're right in that doing that actually reduces the number of orbits you need to wait. I got confused by your first response. It was not the original point I was trying to make in my very first comment. I wasn't talking about reducing the wait, just that it works both ways. Or to put it in different words: Scott seemed to stress the point that you would HAVE to put your docker into a specific lower/higher orbit depending on where the target is, which simply is not true - disregarding the waiting time.
Nice Tutorial, but one question: How do I add those custom partslike the lifter to the VAB? Thanks to the tutorial I can now dock in space, but I would like to know how I get this extra building category. Using KSP 1.2
Just look closely what Manley does. I've accidentally heard of ksp on some esa iss docking video. Googled and found this amazing game. That was few days ago, Watched all these tutorials and learned everything i need to know to explore. Almost finished my 5-6 part space station, explored moons, and a planet. I really recommend learning it, because docking really just like most things that you do in ksp gives you feeling of accomplishment ;) peace.
Maybe launching at this time should work as well. Because not only can we slow down to the destination but chase it from a lower orbit with enough speed and eventually meetup with it. 10:09
[Question] If you have a long skinny rocket or station or whatever, would it be more effective/efficient to place two sets of 4 RCS thrusters dead center in the craft, or one set of 4 thrusters at both ends? Either way you have the same amount of thrusters, so the only variable would be positioning. Thanking you in advance.
The extension of this answer is very slightly more complicated. While having a single set of thrusters, centered precisely on the CoM, is a completely viable option for nearly any simple craft, and might be the most efficient option, in terms of part count/weight, it won't be as effective as you might like on a large craft, and it possibly won't be your most fuel efficient option. While they certainly need to be equidistant from the CoM, what that distance is becomes a matter of leverage. Taking the CoM to be the same as the fulcrum of a lever, the further the thruster is from the CoM (i.e. the length of the lever), the more force it will deliver for the same amount of fuel, which in turn makes your craft more responsive when altering your direction. Now, this doesn't have much effect on the translation of your craft, but that's where the equidistant point becomes important. Though it would be most effective, rotationally, to place your thrusters at the extremes of your craft, if that doesn't line up properly with your CoM you will start rotating when you attempt to translate, because the thrusters will be applying an uneven amount of force. You avoid this by placing them the same distance either side of the CoM, that way one lever isn't longer than the other. tl;dr version: The further away from each other the thrusters are, the better. However, make sure they're equidistant from the CoM, or you'll start rotating when you try to translate.
I dont know if I missed it but who do you start burns after half of the burn time is over? isnt the point to fully throttle the whole time to match the vector
wouldn't it be better to burn radial in /out once you establish an orbit and then burn a prograde maneuver to find the intersection then burn retrograde/prograde to come within range of the target and slowly align target and prograde to rendezvous?
Of course,I think he did that for newbie tutorial purpose to show how to catch up. Also sometimes you have to rendezvous a ship that is orbiting another body, so that is helpful.
Hullo Scott Manley, Do you know if the Dev's for KSP are going to improve the floating point errors. I couldn't find any info on this, also asked on the forum and no response.
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Without this tutorial, I would have never been able to dock.
Now I have a space station.
I still can’t dock
@@mrfishsticks6787 I am struggling, I play on x box and I can get my inclination at 0 and I can my intersect at 0.1k and I still cannot get close enough to dock. I hate it, plus so many bugs on x box version and you cant debug, if you can, I dont know how
@@deweylund5784 did you set your navball to the Target and burned retrograde to your speed compared to the Target is at zero Point towards the Target on the navball and use RCS to keep the prograde in the center with the Target and use your RCs to reach the target preferably 0.2 as far as speed time-warp every now and again and every time the pro grade veers off Target cut-off time warp adjust and repeat eventually you will rendezvous once you get within a hundred you could Target their docking port
@@deweylund5784 and the only brother I've experienced on here is when is sent me back to the home screen on Xbox but that only happens like twice remember this game since November remember to save your game a lot bro you don't want to lose your hard work
I'm proud of myself, having built a complete space station without Rendez-vous nor Docking tutorial :)
Coming up in Part 3 - Rescuing poor Jeb, who got left on a space station with no parachute for a return landing! ;-)
Very late, but EVA parachute him (only works in newer versions)
I don't use parachutes, landers are the only way to go.
Currently referring to this video to save Jeb from station😂
I deleted a whole save because I had two space stations I couldn’t get back 😆
Thanks to Scott I've gone, in two days, from not being able to orbit reliably to orbiting, modifying my orbits, doing a Mun flyby, and planting a satellite in keosynchronous orbit... Above a specific spot no less.
I've learned so much about orbital mechanics and KSP mechanics. So good. Thank you so much!
Just cause you put the fuel tank in a non-equatorial orbit you deserved my like and subscription. Thanks for all your tutorials, they are FANTASTIC.
So many complicated tutorials. In the end I just thought ''fk it, I'll find out myself'', and this is how I did it:
1st part:(Skip this part if you're aware of the basics of the game)
- Before launching, attach Thrusters to the side of your spaceshuttle.
- Right-click on your spacestation (or whatever you want to dock at) and set it as your target.
- Orbit the planet at about the same height as your spacestation; it's ok to be far off the spacestation, as long as you're not falling back down to the planet.
- Timewarp until you get close to your spacestation. It does not matter if you're like 100 miles away from it.
2nd part:(only read this part if you're aware of the basics of the game)
- Set your RCS and SAS on ''target''. And just launch yourself towards the target. If you get close (within a few miles) or if you fly past your target, set your RCS and SAS to ''retrograde'' until your orbital speed is around 0 m/s.
- Rinse and repeat until you're docked.
THAT IS ALL! All you have to do is: fly towards your target and retrograde if you get close or fly past it and repeat the process until you're docked.
It's great that so many people are making (complicated) guides for this but it's really only 2 buttons you have to be aware of.
Using my strategy it nowadays only takes me mere minutes from launch to docking to get it all done.
I can see how you found this method to be easier than what it displayed in Scott's tutorial. However' I've been playing this every other day for years now, and your method confuses me and seems rather challenging while Scott's seems to be the easiest and less tedious. It's interesting how we all learn things differently.
You mean kilometers, not miles.
aazo5 there are mods that change it to the american measuring system
Evil Sid Yes, but I have no reason to assume that he's using mods.
its fine i wasn't accusing you of anything
after watching your videos, i finally decided to send up my own station. At first it seemed like a tough task but after the first rendezvous it was a cake walk! Now I have a decent-sized station with escape pods and comms and science, and Im proud of it!
I never understood why people say Cake walk. I know the expressions: As easy as eating cake and A walk in a park. I don't know why people combine them
Good looking Fireblade, by the way
@@pluransart1795 yooo I know this was 5 years ago but you’re familiar with a cake walk right? It’s basically musical chairs and the winner wins a cake. Easy. That’s where the expression comes from.
@@coltonrougeau33 So thats where it comes from!
11:41 reminds me of a Tom Lehrer song...
"'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."
Going to have that stuck in my head now, thanks. :) Next, The Elements song!
HerraTohtori Wasn’t he originally designing missiles?
@@henryjiang9664 Yes, and missiles are just rockets carrying bombs.
Tom Lehrer is a genius
Thank you so much, dude! Finally learned how to rendezvous with ships in orbit! You rock, smart guy!
If you want to bring home your Kerbal pilot on the same spacecraft, be sure to add a parachute to the docker. Although taking another craft to Spacestation X to rescue your Kerbal will be good practice.
I've been docking for 4 years, but I learned something from this. :) I had no idea you could line up the indicators during launch.
Every time I hear "Hello its Scott Manley hear" I know that I am going to learn something interesting. Awesome videos :)
Mr.C It's "Hello it's Scott Manley here" not "Hello its Scott Manley hear" ;) Not interesting but still learning
WArockets You might not find it interesting. But many of us do.
Gabe Skid
Haha I wasn't talking about the video I was talking about spelling. I love what Scott has to say he always has little things that make me go off and study
WArockets Oh okay, a little misunderstanding I guess.
"...longer than most people's attention span." Hah! I am glued to the screen! I'd forgotten how much fun this simulation is. But Christmas (Feb 24, 2023) is just a week away. I can hardly wait.
You are amazing! I JUST got into circular orbit around the planet, but seeing how many in depth tutorials you have is amazing. I know the game is complicated, but you seriously help alleviate that A LOT! Keep at it!!
This is old, but still gold
I have learned so much from you, but i feel in your efforts to do things the right way, you make things more difficult.
These tutorials are really well put together, thanks Scott!
Scott, I came across your KSP videos on accident and thought the game looked so cool. I bought the game and now am obsessed. Your videos are such a huge help! Keep up the great work.
Thanks Scott! I actually followed your instructions and put my first part into and equatorial orbit :). I finally did it and I'm now building a space station.
This video just saved Bill Kerman's life. He thanks you very much :3
8 years old and probably better than quite a few tutorials
Thanks Scott, I'm always excited to watch your new episodes.
Thank You Scott once again you make it look easy bet we are getting there!!!
Keep up the good work
Instead of going into the same 120 km orbit directly, you could have also gone into a lower orbit (say 80 - 100 km) to catch up to the station. It's a slightly more efficient alternative to going up 120, circularizing, and then burning retro, then burning prograde to make the rendezvous.
Just a an alternative. =)
Sure, I know that, you know that, but I'm trying to present something that's a step by step process for new players.
I think Scott was trying to keep it simple because I've seen him use and explain that method at least once. But I appreciate the kind motive :)
Does it really simplify things? A Hohmann transfer to the target is not much harder.
blizzy1978 It follows a step by step process - do something, wait, do something else. Breaking it down into steps is a good way to teach.
As for a hohmann transfer, that requires powers of 3/2, while this, at most requires multiplying by the number 7.
Oh yeah, I understand that this is for new players and I'm certainly not saying you did it wrong.
My purpose in mentioning that was simply to point out to new players that it's not *necessary* to reach the same orbital altitude first. I see that done in so many videos I feel like it's an assumption that gets learned and never broken.
Love the videos, keep them coming!
First Scott Manly video, this was SO helpful! Thanks Scott!
Learning how to rendezvous has allowed me to do anything I want in KSP. Keep up the good work Scott, and thanks for the tutorials!
Hey Scott, I am not getting the intercept icon unless I am doing a manoeuvre
Less than 2 min in and ive already learned 3 things, liked and subscribed my friend
HOLY SHIIIT I FUCKING DOCKED OMG MOM GET THE CAMERA!!! :D:D:D:D
***** 'docking'
I threw my headphones at my monitor the first time I tried, I kept dinking the docking port and moving the damn space craft back another 40m, as soon as I docked the first time I let go of every fucking muscle and let go of breath. Then I fucked up by undocking cause I wanted to line up the windows and it went away from me. I quit ksp for a day cause of that shit fuck that.
+MrBanane45 ME TOO LEL
sorry son but I am currently docking the camera with the charger, you are going to have to wait.
I'm docking with his mom
I pussied out on rendezvous for the longest time, it's one of the biggest learning hurdles in KSP. But when you learn it, it's hella fun to mess around with it. Here's a basic step by step:
1.) Make sure your intercept ship has quite a bit of fuel, rendezvous can be pretty consuming.
2.) Launch your intercept ship in a lower orbit than your target
> I've been told to launch when the target is near KSC, but i found out that it won't matter much, you can still make a good rendezvous.
3.) Select your target ship and click Set as Target.
4.) Click on either the ascending or descending node. Make a maneuver node, messing around with the Normal and Anti-normal (up and down in the maneuver node widget) till both your AN/DN are 0.0 degrees. Burn.
5.) Make a prograde maneuver to match your apoapsis with the target's orbit. You should be getting intercept nodes. Burn.
6.) Mess around with the prograde and retrograde to get a close intercept. Target position and intercept ship position are indicated by either purple or orange arrows. 1-3 km separation is acceptable. Burn. The arrows should be closer now.
7.) Click on the intercept arrows to find out your relative velocity. You can make a retrograde maneuver, but it's less confusing to eyeball and kill relative velocity.
8.) Now with you close to your target with low relative velocity, you can now mess around with your engines and RCS thrusters to maneuver towards your target ship. Target and Anti-target SAS functions should help you out, especially in docking.
he makes it look so simple its not saddly
Ayyyyyy 1mil subs! I dont know when the channel reached 1mil, but right now it says 1.02mil! Whether it was in the last few days, or the last few months, congratulations!
Scott - Love your videos. They're a big help to someone new to the game!
i love how the Game makes progress since this! And i love your Videos Scott!
Wonderful tutorial Scott. I've been looking forward to a tutorial on this for quite some time. I can't wait to get home and start my first space station. :)
Best tutorial series for this game
Thank you again Professor Manley
Summary: Get into an orbit close to target orbit. Perform manoeuvre to line up.Set as target. Burn prograde at apoapsis and periapsis if in front of target, Retrograde at apoapsis and periapsis if target is in front (Do it about 10,000km from target(or maybe closer?))Be PATIENT and let craft speed up or slow down depending on your position in relation to the target. Once craft to be docked to is close gently ease in with RCS. DOCK!
This was my understanding of the video and it helped me dock with something in simpleRockets, only thing is that docking is simpler due to no normal/antinormal adjustments. If this is incorrect please add to this in the comments below to help out beginners or even to help out myself. Last thing: this is really basic, if you want a precise guide, WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO!
Thanks Manley I finally managed that god damn rendezvous. Did it three more times today just to see if it wasn't just a fluke.
Been waiting for this episode! I love this series and thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us! :D
Am not new to the game. I know how` to orbit and detach and stuff like that. But I had no idea how to dock/make a space station. But thanks to you I know now! You just earnt another subscriber and like!
I been trying to figure things out by myself until now, but I couldn't do rendezvous to save my life. This video's been very helpful! Turns out having solar panels and RCS thrusters is kind of important ;P
Loving the new outro Scott!
Easy Clarckson method:0. Have a big ass rocket with a lot of power on deck
1. Wait till the station is about to pass your rocket. 2. Get into same altitude as the station4 burn to Target marker till you reach your station on the screen5. Start retrograde burns relitive to your target to get close in slower speeds (>100m/s)6. Drop stage and dock
The first time you dock is amazing
Scott Manley you are simply amazing =)
This helped thank you, my first time trying to rendezvous (before watching this video) I remember flying past my target at about 200m/s faster than it but was also 5 km away :(
i am cannot dock what so ever you have such a good understanding on this game i normally do on stuff but its kinda hard tbh
+kierankay100 i'm not gonna judge you're english but, you are right it is very hard this is probably the hardest feature in the game i spent a good amount of hours until i finished the docking tutorial and then i made my own scenario in my world where i had a fuel tank and i am trying to dock a Research Lab to it and i am still trying to dock to it, i think the goal is to try and thrust towards the target not to fast or slow but the closer you are and the slower you are basicly if you are 20 centimeters away from your target and you are at the same speed your orbits are basicly the same as well so try getting close and then using rcs to slow yourself down, then get closer and slow down rinse and repeat and eventually you might get it, don't forget rcs is very useful almost a necessity since it's much slower for precision you don't wanna crash into your target
EDIT as of writing this i managed to successfully dock a Research lab to the fuel tank, so from my understanding you need to get as close as you can to your target and then burn retrograde when the navball is set to target then make sure you aren't too fast or too slow or faraway then try to dock remember to quicksave and when close enough turn off rcs and sas and let the magnets do their job
The Satanic Gamer From Hell you really shouldn't judge his English because your English isn't any good either
really dude ? WTF i commented on this 5 months ago, and all you did to further develop this comment chain is, basically just... what exactly ?
first of all i said that i am not gonna judge him AND I DID NOT, yet you still fucking have to be a keyboard warrior or a social justice warrior, for what reason exactly ?
and about my english if you mean spelling dont worry i got google to auto correct me there, however if you mean the structure of my sentence by which i mean a lack of grammar then i really dont give a fuck at least i can fucking put a sentence together in the right sequence of what word is first and so on, K ?
honestly the only thing you managed to do is make me cringe, for basically "attacking" me for something i didnt even do
i mean i tried to help the guy for fuck sacked, CAN YOU NOT SEE THE MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT THAT HAS NO PARAGRAPH SEPARATION PLUS I ALSO ADDed EVEN MORE INFO TO THE COMMENT AFTER I POSTED IT, SO IF YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO JUST COMMENT HERE SAYING WHAT YOU SAID... OH WAIT YOU DID THEN I REALLY DON'T WANT THIS THREAD TO GO ANY FURTHER, which is why i am going to mute this post so i wont get bombarded with your opinion on what i said
also judging by your profile picture username and channel content, i can easily confirm that you sir are a troll which is why i don't want to even have a decent... WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THIS
finally i will just say you are going to reply with either TL;DR... well shit there goes my time not that i care but still, secondly English is not my main language i prefer it over my main country of origin language but it still isn't my main one but at least AGAIN i can put a sentence together MINUS GRAMMAR.
one last thing, FUCK OFF
The Satanic Gamer From Hell
The fact that you even mentioned his grammar 'i'm not gonna judge you're english but' (which in itself have 3 mistakes in it) makes you portray yourself as someone who is *far* superior in English en linguistic skills, someone who has given themselves the right to talk about other people's grammar as if you were better.
As for your spelling and grammar (grammar is *not* only putting words in the right order), it's shit, even when you were correcting me on the "fact" that you do have good grammar.
About the necro-ing.
No shits were given about the time and date you commented, having as bad grammar as you do, you needed to be corrected.
Also, a 'Social Justice Warrior' (it has to be capitalized since it is a title, dummy) and 'Keyboard Warrior' (again, capitalization), generally strive to push their beliefs down other people's collective throats. No beliefs or opinions were stated in my comment, indicating the i am not to be titled a 'Social Justice Warrior' or 'Keyboard Warrior', but rather something known on the internet as a 'Grammar Nazi'.
Oh Wow...the "How to SpaceStation..." suggestion has come to life?!! Thank you Scott!
P.S. The (new) end credits are awesome! I've seen that 'planet' somewhere before?!!!!
You said in the end you will cut this in 2 parts because otherwise it would be longer then peoples attention span. Well... I fell asleep halfway xD I think it was due to the fact I had 7 hours of sleep in the last 3 days, but defenitly not because this was boring. Love your videos scott, and I love your voice, makes me fall asleep :P
I always have trouble with rendevouzing (I cant spell it)
Hi. let me explain how i did this.
So i think you know harry potter and so also Ron. There you got the first part of how to spell it. for the "de" you can take a the but be more gently with the t and add some bass so that it sound like a d. For "vou" you just take who and try to spell it with a v instead of a w but keep the rest. And there you go you can finally spell rondevou. :P
Back to topic. I struggled at first with matching velo's but than there was a rondevou scenario tutorial mission available that explains everything you need and could even use for interplanetary flights.
Smikefliege It's actually rendezvous, but you also start sentences with and and don't know the difference between then and than so not much is expected of you..
EraserFace You also used "and and" while critiquing his grammar, is there a grammatical equivalent of Mruphy's law?
Bodog999 im french so rendezvous or render vous is easy 2 spell
it's a french word. it has a z in it lol. (rendez-vous)
A tip for new space station managers, it is a good idea to orient your station so it is aligned so it is perpendicular to its orbit. That way the station does not block its own solar panels.
Scott Manley Which capturing software/hardware are you using. If you use shadowplay I can understand why the quality is not super great. But if not, you might need to up the render quality before uploading to youtube. But don't get me wrong. It's not bad, just a bit "milky" and those things can be worked around.
11:11 I think at this phase of the start you should rotate your rocket so that the PV and the TV are on the right and left side. so you only have to press D to "aim" for the TV. in your case at 10km it was difficult to aim for the TV by pressing W & D.
You can change the color of lights by right-clicking and tweaking the red, green, and blue, so you can do port and starboard navigation lights (red and green) fyi
I did it. Because of your video. Thanx
The way I learned how to rendezvous didn't teach me to utilize launch windows. I'm too lazy to care about that so i just do this:
1. Match planes
2. Burn prograde till orbit intersects with target orbit
3. Mess around with prograde and retrograde maneuver nodes till I get an encounter that's close enough
4. Fire engines retrograde (if your ship is faster than the target) or prograde (if your ship is slower than the target) on closest approach to kill relative velocity
Boom, now you hit f5 and worry about docking next.
By the way details like closest approach, time to closest approach, relative velocity, and inclination difference can be seen using the Map view, but having the Kerbal Engineer Redux mod is better since you get these information in your main flight HUD without the need to actually click on the nodes in Map view.
Scott, you're like my Kerbal NASA tech geek training dude... thanks. ;)
Gene Kerman, he was a real person..... Gene, was on the, moon.
For a beginners Tutorial the launching part sound pretty difficult. Waiting until the two ships align and the launch so the will meet when you reach a stable orbit, was always very confusing when I was a KSP amateur. It is much simpler to understand rendezvousing if you shoot one spaceship in a higher orbit than the other and wait until they are in the right position and then do a transfer burn so the will meet.
As an amateur, I was thrilled when you didn't put your first craft into a perfect equatorial orbit ... I almost never manage to do that.
I added four small solar panels to the final stage of the rocket (not including the space station part itself) and I also added a Remote Guidance Unit, then I used the remainder of the fuel to make it fall back to Earth. My OCD spans that far and further, haha. In fact my OCD made me redo the whole process of taking off and sending the Space Station base into orbit four or so times because of small reasons like that :p
Nice tutorials you got there. I started career on Easy, got to Mun and Minimus once... now I got no clue what to do next.
Got bored with it so I went to try Moderate, orbited Kerbin once and I ve got no science to make landing on Minimus look like realistic mission. And testing contracts give way less science than before, so spamming them is out of the question. I m quite clueless. :D
Aside from that, space stations, land bases and docking are things I ll seemingly never master...
DOCKED FIRST TIME IN MA LIFE THANK YOU SCOTT.
+Scott Manley, I did every thing you instructed and got an intersection with my space probe that was within 2 km, however when I came out of map mode to make my final movements towards my probe, the green dotted square that indicates your target was not showing to help me find the probe. Because of this I was not able to dock with the probe, do you know why the indicator did not show up? Additional note: I used a different AI pod to go up, I used the RC-0015 Remote Guidance Unit for both (this could be why it didn't show up). Any feedback would be great, thanks :)
At around 3:25 when you get the Lifter, how does it connect to the space station thingy? It doesn't work, and I followed your tutorials exactly. Please help.
No, I didn't mean in space, I meant when he's connecting the Lifter to the space station module in the VAB. I know how to dock in space, and thanks for telling me a bit more about it, but I built the two parts and they won't connect via the way he does it, in the VAB.
I would love a tutorial on how to time launches and rendezvous with the minimal amount of raising/lowering orbits to catch up to the target. I've almost pulled it off a couple of times, but any more actual info would be useful...
You're late, Scott. I already pulled off my first rendezvous yesterday! :D
An astronaut is never too early or too late. He arrives precisely when he means to.
I found wide angle lights mostly useless for lighting up the craft I am docking to, they have too small range. If the craft is not lighting up itself and you happen to dock on the night side you see nothing until you're too close for comfort. They're useful for the station/ship to shine on itself, though.
I like wide angle lights too when I need see what I'm docking with
thanks so much for these videos. I really love the little irreverent comments.
so do you have a better / efficient way to Rendezvous/dock video?
Hi there from version 1.0.5! I have a quick question. Of course in this tutorial, 1.0 hadn't even existed until now but I have some problems. I have problems trying to get into orbit with small ships, and potentially getting back. I'm expirementing how I can perfect it now and still have a ton of fuel left to go back on my journey. Mostly, in Career mode(with money) I would go and put a T-45 Swivel on top of a decoupler with a solid rocket booster. I also have problems getting to other planets and back. I tried to use MechJeb to help me create a maneuver to go to Eve with the least delta V. I'm happy it didn't take long. Little did I know that it wasted almost all of my fuel on my way back and left me only the little lander with only a small engine and a tiny fuel tank. Any way I can improve this? I am really screwed when it comes to interplanetary missions.
try apollo style: once at the planet, leave the ship in orbit around it and undock the lander. land, do shit, and rendevouz with the main ship before going back.
+bob appellover a tip if you plan to do the Apollo style mission is to launch from the surface of the moon or planet when the spacecraft on orbit is pretty close.
A note on space station lights to all the new comers, download Aviation Lights. Full set of colored lights that can be set to flash in intervals and such.
I needed to watch this cause I forgot to add a parachute on my Mun lander. And a docking port. I hope my grabber works.
I'am trying this right now. It's so hard!
the most useful thing I've ever learned from Scott Manley is CHECK YO STAGING
Scott did you ever make a tutorial on how to encounter the target in a single burn?
lol when i made the space station orbit it started to play that "ooooooohhhhh" music. How convenient
you make it look so easy now i can get that kerbl out of orbit of the mission
I was wondering if you ran KSP in 64 bit? I tried following your guide to installing mods and failed. KSP would not run and would error out during the loading.
It doesn't matter if you're going into a higher orbit or a lower orbit depending on whether the target is behind or in front of you. It works both ways. Either one catches up on the other.
The point is to minimise the amount of time (orbits) you wait to catch up so yeah it does matter.
No it does not. To reduce the number of orbits you need to wait, you just move one vessel in a higher orbit and the other in a lower orbit. It does not matter which is which.
blizzy1978 I'll give you an example because other beginners might be reading this.
Say you launch a rocket and you end up in a higher circular orbit than your target, with the target being in front of you. You can then just burn retrograde (slow down) for the rendezvous, but to get the closest approach the target must be at an optimal distance in front of you.
If the target is much further than needed to get an optimal distance you have to wait for it to catch up and it also must get in front of you again in a closer distance and that would mean covering a relative distance of a full orbit, which is many many actual orbits later. Instead, you can go to a lower orbit than your target and you can catch up with it 1 or 2 orbits later.
You're right in that doing that actually reduces the number of orbits you need to wait. I got confused by your first response. It was not the original point I was trying to make in my very first comment. I wasn't talking about reducing the wait, just that it works both ways.
Or to put it in different words: Scott seemed to stress the point that you would HAVE to put your docker into a specific lower/higher orbit depending on where the target is, which simply is not true - disregarding the waiting time.
"I'm sure it's nothing that can't be fixed with some rocket fuel" that's pretty much the KSP motto isn't it
Nice Tutorial, but one question: How do I add those custom partslike the lifter to the VAB? Thanks to the tutorial I can now dock in space, but I would like to know how I get this extra building category. Using KSP 1.2
Woohoo! Been waiting on this, thx!
I'm watching this video and I've had the game since early 2013..
***** same here i got this a long time now i suck at this game but its fun no matter how long i struggle
Just look closely what Manley does. I've accidentally heard of ksp on some esa iss docking video. Googled and found this amazing game. That was few days ago, Watched all these tutorials and learned everything i need to know to explore. Almost finished my 5-6 part space station, explored moons, and a planet. I really recommend learning it, because docking really just like most things that you do in ksp gives you feeling of accomplishment ;) peace.
Maybe launching at this time should work as well. Because not only can we slow down to the destination but chase it from a lower orbit with enough speed and eventually meetup with it. 10:09
no can I dock my space plane and refuel it with my refuelling station I made and that is already orbiting in space the same way???
Docking is a 5/10 for me because you have to make an accident to try again but docking you have to practice a lot to get good at docking.
Nice video man!
Those RCS being off centre at 7.30 enraged my OCD
Your the best youtuber
[Question] If you have a long skinny rocket or station or whatever, would it be more effective/efficient to place two sets of 4 RCS thrusters dead center in the craft, or one set of 4 thrusters at both ends? Either way you have the same amount of thrusters, so the only variable would be positioning. Thanking you in advance.
You can put sets of thrusters equdistant from the Center of Mass.
The extension of this answer is very slightly more complicated. While having a single set of thrusters, centered precisely on the CoM, is a completely viable option for nearly any simple craft, and might be the most efficient option, in terms of part count/weight, it won't be as effective as you might like on a large craft, and it possibly won't be your most fuel efficient option. While they certainly need to be equidistant from the CoM, what that distance is becomes a matter of leverage. Taking the CoM to be the same as the fulcrum of a lever, the further the thruster is from the CoM (i.e. the length of the lever), the more force it will deliver for the same amount of fuel, which in turn makes your craft more responsive when altering your direction. Now, this doesn't have much effect on the translation of your craft, but that's where the equidistant point becomes important. Though it would be most effective, rotationally, to place your thrusters at the extremes of your craft, if that doesn't line up properly with your CoM you will start rotating when you attempt to translate, because the thrusters will be applying an uneven amount of force. You avoid this by placing them the same distance either side of the CoM, that way one lever isn't longer than the other.
tl;dr version: The further away from each other the thrusters are, the better. However, make sure they're equidistant from the CoM, or you'll start rotating when you try to translate.
Also you can use RCSBuildAid mod to do it precisely.
erebus08 Thank you, I'll definitely keep that in mind for my next craft!
This video was so f'n helpful
I dont know if I missed it but who do you start burns after half of the burn time is over? isnt the point to fully throttle the whole time to match the vector
wouldn't it be better to burn radial in /out once you establish an orbit and then burn a prograde maneuver to find the intersection then burn retrograde/prograde to come within range of the target and slowly align target and prograde to rendezvous?
Servus!Which Version are you using?
Greez, Niklas!
Love your vids And accent ;-)
Subscribed!
I prefer to rendezvous straight from launch it works well when doing an Apollo style mission.
Of course,I think he did that for newbie tutorial purpose to show how to catch up. Also sometimes you have to rendezvous a ship that is orbiting another body, so that is helpful.
Can you give me the link to the tutorial where he makes the lifter?
he makes it IN THE VIDEO
Evil Sid when
the start
no, its pre-made. Im not saying the full vessel, I'm saying the huge add on he put
Hullo Scott Manley, Do you know if the Dev's for KSP are going to improve the floating point errors. I couldn't find any info on this, also asked on the forum and no response.
I sincerely hope that something is being done given the need to rendezvous with asteroids in deep space.
Pls make a TUT : How to make a Space shuttle