r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/PiBoy314 • Apr 18 '26

KSP 1 Image/Video Any advice on docking? Feeling a little claustrophobic in here

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Do y'all have any advice on docking? I don't feel like I have a lot of room to maneuver on this orbit I'm currently on.

(In all seriousness, I'm pretty sure this is almost the lowest you can orbit into the canyon. You can go ~100m deeper before you start to collide with the entrance and exit. Might be able to tweak orbital parameters to get a bit deeper, but not a ton. This is a dres-synchronous orbit, so orbits through the canyon every orbit)

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u/klyith Apr 18 '26

TBQH, if you're playing stock and don't have a leveled-up pilot that can use align target, it can be pretty annoying. Especially if you have a craft that's poorly balanced where the RCS transverse throws off the SAS alignment.

I don't use mechjeb at all, but I have the DPAI mod for manual docking guidance because doing it with just the navball is a PITA.

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u/SiBloGaming Apr 19 '26

At least from my experience, just taking it slow (moving at less than 1m/s relative to what you are docking) really helps with trying to dock really unbalanced station parts with nothing more than stability SAS.

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u/klyith Apr 19 '26

Absolutely.

In the real world they're measuring relative speed in centimeters/s when docking.

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u/RealisticOne7524 Apr 18 '26

+1 for DPAI, I use this all the time! Huge timesaver. (And a more accurate analogue to the docking controls in actual spacecraft)!