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Rendezvous from low orbit (<10km) breaks badly.

Open allista opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

Just tried rendezvous in the new version, moving from an 8km equatorial orbit around minmus to a geostationary station on the opposite side of the moon. Engines engaged at full instantly, without changing direction, then the ship started rotating to somewhere near radial-out. I let it run for a few thinking it was trying for a direct transfer, but it kept burning, until the course was a straight line out of the SOI, then the game crashed.


Gravity turn The "problem" is the low altitude. TCA "thinks" you're still not in orbit and tries to raise ApA to at least 10km, before trying anything else.


Still, it raised my AP a heck of a lot higher than 10km. (I'm assuming the crash was some kind of infinite loop on orbital calculations) What was it trying to do there?


Probably, It was trying to move ApA around the moon to achieve resonance at the peak.

allista avatar Feb 23 '17 23:02 allista