How To Do Your First Docking | KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM Contract Tutorials

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How to equip a vehicle with RCS and how to perform your first docking as easily as possible. (KSP 1.12.3)

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0:00 - Introduction
0:34 - Looking at the Contract
1:39 - Needed Tech
2:23 - Using Subassemblies
3:58 - Adding a Docking Port
5:11 - Adding Monoprop
7:10 - Adding RCS Thrusters
9:48 - Balancing Thrust
12:08 - Actuation Toggles
13:34 - Fairing Trick
15:40 - Advanced Inline Stabilizer
16:57 - Launch
17:39 - Tweaking with RCS
18:38 - Setting Docking Ports
19:44 - Docking Controls
22:17 - Aligning Docking Ports
23:50 - Adjusting Approach
25:25 - Docking
27:30 - Summary

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My method:
Build vessel.
Build rocket to get vessel to space.
Launch rocket, get to space.
Get close to second vessel.
Enable RCS.
Realize I forgot RCS thrusters.
Start all over...
Repeat first steps.
Get near rendezvous.
Try to dock.
Run out of monopropellant.
Start over.
Repeat first steps, this time with mechjeb installed.
Dock perfectly first time. 😁

Bendigo

Ive always just set both crafts docking ports as target then have them face each other then move one until docked. Has worked flawlessly everytime and only requires forward and backwards RCS

LaMonastery

Hey man, I'm new to KSP after i picked it up free on EPIC. I've watched people play it before (Scott Manley etc) but your tutorials are next level. Learning so much from you.

apedley

The term RCS has its own history. In Gemini, there were two separate systems: Orbital Attitude and Maneuvering System (OAMS) and the Reentry Control System (RCS). In later-generation spacecraft, the functions of these two systems were combined in the Reaction Control System (RCS).

JohnWilliamNowak

1, 000 hrs into KSP and I can't believe I didn't think to turn the actuation toggles off... just had RCS wrestling me the entire time. Still some great tips for longer term players in these videos. Keep up the good work.

simonrushton

Im kind of "old" Kerbonaut on KSP but I really like how you give tips, advises and tutorials to new players. Keep up the good work mate!👍🏻

MRannikko

I particularly liked, in addition to the sub-assembly thing, was....well, everything. You, Sir,
are a steely-eyed rocket man!!

jimn

Been playing KSP for a long time, but never got beyond basic orbital flights and landing on the Mun, Minmus, and doing some orbital stuff around Eve and Gilly (think I landed on Gilly, too). Your guides have helped me be more comfortable with rendezvous and docking, and as a result I've been able to construct stations around Kerbin, the Mun, and Minmus and set myself up a nice little tourist system with landers and a Kerbin system transit ship.

I noticed you left some things out of this video, maybe because they'll be more relevant for a later video, but stuff you can do while docked, like transferring fuel, crew, and cargo. Also, you mention in an earlier episode to not use prograde thrust to speed things up, use time warp instead. However, in this video you avoided using time warp and used prograde to speed yourself towards the docking port. I found out the hard way why you should be very careful with time warp while docking; the game does *not* play nicely with two vessels bumping while under physics time warp. I sent my first Kerbin station ragdolling into space on accident. :D

tawnos

Best docking tutorial ever - man why did I miss your channel in the past? ;)

ThePixelbuilder

I have been playing this game since the sun was just a light in the skybox. I learned a lot about building rockets from this video, I had no idea many of those VAB features existed!

Linkedition

Another fab tutorial Mike, your previous ones helped me get out and about into the void of Kerbin :)

malcolmanon

I’ve been following along though I did do some extra ferry and rescue missions. I can’t get this or any docking contracts to pop up. I’m also on day 88 though (warped 10 days trying to get it) so maybe I’m just past being able to get it. Oh well! Have to learn anyway so I can get Jeb back. He is probably pretty bored by now. Great tutorials!! Much appreciated!!

JBLshelton

The MK2 Command Pod from the Making History DLC does not have its own monopropellant. So it's good to double check your monoprop levels anyway.

ajnasreddin

Question: if you point the vessel that you are trying to dock to in the normal direction so that it points north, then where is the antinormal icon? Shouldn't it show up when you have the target, prograde and vessel in one line? Since you are pointing in the opposite direction of the northfacing vessel.

daufy