Easy Guide To Orbiting in Kerbal Space Program (updated for v0.11)

[Jayfourke]

Great tutorial, although having both viewed this and read your tutorial on the forums, I'm still struggling to even control my rocket on the way up, much less force it into orbit. More practice!

[unparallelshadows]

You're a hero man. I got into Earth Orbit with a really circular orbit because of you.

I'm going to shoot for the mun. Thank you so much.

[dummy2821]

I'm in orbit and OUT OF FUEL!!

Is RCS enough power I have a very high apoapsis and a very low periapsis

[szyzyg]

@dummy2821 If you burn retrograde at apoapsis RCS is easily sufficient to get you on a return trajectory

[PresAndrewJackson]

@dummy2821 You have to build something like a shuttle. I just launched 2 tanks of fuel into orbit and could play around a bit, making short bursts for orbit correction.

[qwert13y]

Jeb, though the crazy one, can't really hold his drink, my real competition was Bob.

[jacobespo117]

i made it past africa and landed in the country over

[maxzamoraj]

Wait..Not the "Earth", its Kerbin actually.

[maxzamoraj]

Ok, so here is my problem: (You are going to like it)

Im in an orbit of Pe: 6,778,246,670 and Ap: 13,672,122,330. In a velocity from 5,000 to 13,000 m/s. Im without fuel, and flying pass the "Earth" at every cycle.

Help me.... Im.....stranded......in......s­pace...

[rawrdisturbedrawr]

@maxzamoraj pretty cool problem to have at the least

[mahhRobbieSaleh]

@maxzamoraj thats nothing, i was aiming for the mun and missed, now im orbiting the sun -_-

[maxzamoraj]

@mahhRobbieSaleh Me too ! :D And I can tell you, that will happen too much... Seriously, it will... :P

[gremlack]

oh my god this game is amazing

[Spartanz1170]

TY sz now i know how to orbit.. now tell me a way to break earths orbit and head to the mun :D

[walker19990]

i failed... im stranded in orbit...

[jacobespo117]

me to

[sporecreatorperson]

When I jettison the boosters, the rocket veers off and loses control completely. It just turns tail and goes back down.

[ThatKidWithTheVideos]

@sporecreatorperson Make sure that they're empty and there isn't anything under them on your rocket to nudge it.

[Fireburnin21]

HELP: KSP website is NOT letting me get on I've tried several browsers but it is not working HELP WHAT SHOULD I DO?

[newe6000]

@Fireburnin21 It might of been down. I was able to go on it today.

[Xephirox900]

Do you mind explaining how exactly do you use the NavBall? I got lost when you said aligning with the yellow thing

[matteumayo]

Very well done! I'm sure this will help newer players out a lot.

[NoiDontWantFries]

The splash down animation is really cool, have you tried that yet?

[ForeverWiked]

I really wish this game worked in Linux. Doesn't even work in Wine well :(

Stupid Unity engine. When I'm in Windows though I love the hell out of this.Great video

[fkreller1]

Nice work, Scott.

[natey10101]

Jeb would beat everyone in a drinking contest.

[p0wer5000]

second P.S. what are the pink/purple ice on the degree thing and the oj/yellow

[p0wer5000]

love your tutorials amazing video =)

P.S. indie sandbox games FTW

[Pelle20]

This is great, I had actually downloaded .11 but I didn't realise those features were in yet, I'll have to try that. Thanks for the tutorial!

[Misterspork57]

The thing I HATE about other people's orbiting tutorials is that people are fixated on the idea that the only stable orbit is a perfectly circular orbit, and that you need to finesse your vertical until it is 0. Obviously, that's a fool's errand. I hope that the new map and tutorials like yours(Which are AMAZING BTW, I love your channel) will get this misconception out of people's heads. I also want to teach people in KSP, can you tell me what setup you use to record?

[ledgendaryk]

@Misterspork57 im pretty sure he uses fraps i use it in my videos