Hi Gvndual, thanks for your question!

Yes pitch and roll are controlled with the joystick in the CONTROL panel, which should be open by default.
Yaw can be controlled with the RUDDER. This panel may not be open be default so you will have to open it.

That refers to the code that is common between the desktop and the mobile versions.

Hi Vincent,

Could it be because there is an autopilot on? When an autopilot is on, there is a green dot on the tab.

Hi masaki,

Are you selecting the RETRO in the DOCK mfd? This function retrogrades the spacecraft -relative- to the docking target. This is a different procedure to retrograding normally against its orbital direction. I will post a video on this soon.

Hi David,

How close are you getting?
If you're the playing the ISS rendezvous mission, one way to approach the ISS is to:
1) RETRO relative to the ISS until relative velocity is about 0m/s
2) DIRCT fly towards the ISS as close as possible, to within 1km distance
3) RETRO to bring down relative velocity to 0m/s again
4) and then use MANUAL control to dock.
5) when you get really close, switch to RCSTRANS go move into place for that final bit

If you don't see the docking port which has a red light, CPLAN (coplanar) will point the Shuttle in that direction so you can maneuver your way there.

We will try to do a video to demonstrate this.

From time to time we'll get a question similar to the one below:
"when I put myself in orbit around a planet and I accelerate time, the orbit change itself and I'm no longer in orbit".

The reason why it seems that you're going off orbit is because there are two types of orbits simulated in this game. The yellow orbit is the analytic orbit. This is the idealised orbit that we're all used to seeing in textbooks. These are usually circular or oval shaped orbits that wrap neatly around the planet. The is what an idealised orbit. This is how an orbit would look like if there were only the planet and the spacecraft in the entire space.

Of course, there are other celestial objects in the Universe and in the game. The actual path of the orbit is not as neat. It is affected by all the other objects in the space, albeit, to a much smaller extent.

To see the actual or real orbit that your spacecraft will take, you need to look at the pink orbit. This orbit is calculated numerically and represent that path your spacecraft will actually take. More often than not, this will always deviate from the yellow path.


EXAMPLE:

1) We try to go to the Moon. We adjust Delta-V and Delta-T until the yellow analytic orbit extends beyond the Moon. 



2) But we know for sure that the path that your spacecraft will travel won't be that simple. To see the REAL path of the spacecraft, hit the COMPUTE button to calculate the path numerically. You will see a pink path calculated. This the more like the actual path that a spacecraft would travel in this situation.



3) Here we see that the pink path is too short and we don't see what happens around the Moon. To see further into the future we simply increase the Sim Step slider to extend the calculation further.


In this image, we see clearly how the two orbits differ and how orbits will shift over time due to the presence and movement of other gravitational bodies in the simulated space and other factors, such as changing mass, etc.

Hi there

Yes we will be releasing for MAC in the coming weeks. The first MAC release won't have any major changes from the current pc version so it's a matter of finishing up the admin work and approval process and getting it out there.

Thanks for your patience!

Hi Machala,

Those of you with the beta key have the retail version. We synced the two versions just before release to ensure that the beta and retail versions were the same to avoid confusion.

So no need to get it again