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KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM TUTORIAL HOW TO
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KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM TUTORIAL HOW TO

I'm also assuming that you know how to set up a fairly good orbital rendezvous with maneuver nodes, i.e. you've unlocked them by upgrading the tracking station), and also that you're familiar with how to use them. I'm assuming here that you in fact have maneuver nodes (i.e. The first thing you have to do is to send your ship on a course that will put it and the target in the same place at the same time- or, at least as close as you can get with maneuver nodes. Navigation tool: Maneuver nodes and map view The following sections go into detail on these steps. This is where you use your RCS thrusters to jockey for position.

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This involves eyeballing docking port alignments in the camera view (unless you have a mod installed to show docking alignment on the navball, which is a big convenience).

You're now parked right next to the target, just a few meters away.

Also a navball-and-throttle operation.

Kill relative velocity to target, right when you're at your closest approach.

This involves close observation of the navball and light touches on the throttle.

This involves making small burns as you approach the target, in the last few kilometers, so that your closest approach is zeroed in to a few dozen meters (from the kilometer-or-so you got in step 1).

Careful fiddling with the maneuver node will generally get you a rendezvous within a kilometer or so.

This is the part where you use maneuver nodes to arrange for your ship and the target to be in the same place at the same time, or at least as close as possible.

The appearance has changed a bit since then, but everything I wrote here still applies.) This post is ported from a blog entry I made on an older version of the forum software, back in 2015, so screenshots reflect what KSP looked like at the time. (Author's note: Please forgive the out-of-date screenshots.

Here's a step-by-step illustrated guide for how to do so. After just getting something into orbit (and perhaps a Mun landing), the next big challenge for a new KSP player is how to dock in orbit.