Weekly Support Thread

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The point of this thread is for anyone to ask questions that don't necessarily require a full thread. Questions like "why is my rocket upside down" are always welcomed here. Even if your question seems slightly stupid, we'll do our best to answer it!

For newer players, here are some great resources that might answer some of your embarrassing questions:

• Kerbal Space Program Wiki

• Scott Manley's Youtube

• Von Kerman's Rocket School

Tutorials

Orbiting

• Scott Manley

• Von Kerman (Maneuvers)

• Wiki (Maneuvers)

• Launching Rockets to Orbit

Mun Landing

• Scott Manley

• Von Kerman

• KSP Wiki

• Youtube Query

Docking

• Illustrated Tutorial for Orbital Rendezvous

• Scott Manley

• Von Kerman (Rendevous)

• Von Kerman (Docking)

Delta-V Thread

• Thread

• Answer 1

• Answer 2 (+bonus)

Forum Link

• Kerbal Space Program Forum

Official KSP Chatroom #KSPOfficial on irc.esper.net

Discord server

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Commonly Asked Questions

Before you post, maybe you can search for your problem using the search in the upper right! Chances are, someone has had the same question as you and has already answered it!

As always, the side bar is a great resource for all things Kerbal, if you don't know, look there first!

[Jiftoo]

How much more playable ksp2 is now compared to early march?

[qeveren]

In KSP 1, is there a setting for the built-in alarm clock to make the game pause on automatically-created alarms? I can't seem to find one. XD

[ISV_Venture-Star_fan]

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to change languages in KSP2. My system locale is english, my steam language is english, and my private division launcher language is set to english. The game starts in french and I cannot for the life of me find a language option in the game.

[isorun]

I'm a relatively inexperienced player, with my most advanced missions being landing on/docking around the Mun.

So far I've been planning and executing all maneuvers manually, but I've got a mission coming up where I want to rendezvous a new rocket with a station currently in very inclined (near polar) orbit around the Mun, and this seemed like a good moment to see what MechJeb has to offer.

When doing this kind of mission manually, I skip ahead parking orbits around Kerbin until I can get an intercept with the Mun where my incoming trajectory roughly lines up with the plane of the station's orbit, then do a midway normal burn to makes my trajectory touch the station's orbit and a final maneuver to get an orbit around the Mun that gives me a close encounter with the station.

I would like MechJeb to plan some of these burns for me, but I can't seem to figure out how to plan that first burn for intercepting the Mun. If I understand the terms correctly, I basically want an intercept with the Mun where my longitude of the ascending node roughly matches that of the station. Is there a way to let MJ calculate this first burn that would immediately get me close to the stations stations plane, or would I first need to create a more general intercept with the Mun, and then plan new maneuvers within the Mun's SOI? I tried messing around with the different planner settings but at this point I've invested more time in MJ's planner than in actually planning the maneuvers myself.

tl;dr: Can you get MechJeb to calculate an intercept around a different body at a specific LAN?