How do you easily dock in KSP?

Click on your own docking port and select “control from here.” Then click on your target’s docking port and select “set as target.” That is all. Turn the camera sideways and watch the amazing spectacle of your two ships docking effortlessly.

How do you match orbit and dock in KSP?

Docking / rendezvous

1. Go to the map view and use the maneuver tool.
2. Begin by matching your orbital inclination as described above.
3. Bring one point on your orbit (ideally an apsis) tangent to the target orbit.
4. At the point of nearest encounter maneuver to make:
5. On reaching that encounter, burn to match velocity.

How do you change the docking control in KSP?

Press the “ Delete ” key to get into docking mode. (The “ Insert ” key takes you back to normal mode.) Press the ‘ F ‘ key to change between LIN and ROT (lower-left corner of the screen). The mode you want for driving is going to be LIN (the translation docking mode).

What is the docking station?

(2) A base station for a laptop that turns it into a desktop system. Instead of plugging multiple devices into a laptop to make it desktop ready, the keyboard, mouse, monitor and printer are permanently plugged into the docking station.

How do I rotate docking ports in KSP?

Docked port pairs ( * ) can rotate via right-click menu or action groups ( ** ). They can rotate to snap for perfect alignment.

How do I dock with a nearby object in orbit?

To dock with a nearby object (see Tutorial:Orbital Rendezvous or the basic maneuvers page for how to rendezvous with another object in orbit), start by rotating your ships so their docking ports are facing each-other. Remember to toggle any docking-port covers if necessary.

How do you dock two spacecrafts together?

In order to dock two spacecraft, both must be equipped with docking ports of equal size. When constructing a spacecraft, another part which is not a docking port can be placed on it. That part can then be undocked, but not redocked.

How do I activate docking mode on my ship?

Right click the docking port on your ship and hit “control from here”. Now activate docking mode. What is happening now is that docking port will be seen as the “center” of your ship.

How do I orient the ships to the dock?

You can orient the ships manually using the navball. By clicking on “control from here on your dock, it will reorient the navbal prograde/retrograde to match the direction of the docking port.