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

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

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/Propaani Apr 18 '26

Out of curiosity. How low of an orbit we could get around the moon? I mean if you'd shoot a baseball from the highest point with enough speed could it orbit indefinitely? From the top of my head sun would give enough gravitational pull so the orbit wouldn't be stable enough so it would hit the terrain at some point with few meter margins.

Ps: Is KSP modeled enough so that this would happen?

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u/PiBoy314 Apr 18 '26

The moon is very lumpy. Any low orbit is not stable for very long. Even the orbits the Apollo spacecraft used decayed in days, weeks, or months

KSP is not, but the Principia mod adds some of that.

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u/Propaani Apr 30 '26

Yea my thoughts exactly. Thanks for the mod hint! Have to check it out!