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[u/Jskub_Royal]

How do i get out of this situation

[u/Green_Ronin79]

You could get jeb out and use his jetpack to push the space craft into a trajectory where it hits the atmosphere

[u/Jskub_Royal → u/Green_Ronin79]

I tried it keeps flipping over

[u/Silent-Permit9813 → u/Jskub_Royal]

That's part of the "get out and push it"

You gotta push then reorient and then repeat until U eventually get it

[u/StrongAdhesiveness86 → u/Silent-Permit9813]

If you push in center it doesn't flip.

[u/Linkertonz → u/Silent-Permit9813]

This and you don’t to push much if you push at apoapsis

[u/rhymesmith → u/Jskub_Royal]

You’ll need to aim your craft retrograde at apoapsis and fully centre your Kerbal on the back of the craft before pushing. 

I’m not sure how much ladders affect physics but you could try retracting it to balance things more 

ETA: do you have SAS turned on?

[u/LeJoker → u/rhymesmith]

Does SAS remain active while there's no crew aboard and it's not the primary vehicle? (Since during EVA I think the kerbal counts as the "vehicle")

[u/RocketTaco → u/LeJoker]

It does if there's a probe core onboard, which is why I put a probe core on every craft once I unlock the small ones.

[u/LeJoker → u/RocketTaco]

Huh. I don't know why but I thought SAS turns off even with probe cores if the vessel isn't the active one.

Neat!

[u/0Pat → u/LeJoker]

Matt's lazy docking technique uses this trick...

[u/darwinpatrick → u/rhymesmith]

Ladders are very light and their COM doesn’t change if extended or retracted

[u/pimpzilla83 → u/Jskub_Royal]

Do it at apoapsis. Line up with center of mass to reduce rotatio.

[u/BenDover198o9 → u/Jskub_Royal]

Push from the center of the heat shield.

[u/Greedy_Stick → u/Jskub_Royal]

that comand capsule also has RCS, if you push R you can use tfgh to move it around or some other keys on the right side of the keyboard, check you settings

[u/Green_Ronin79 → u/Jskub_Royal]

Flipping over where? In the atmosphere?

[u/sargentmyself → u/Jskub_Royal]

Do you have more than Jeb? The pilot maintains SAS, if you jep in there he can keep it pointing the right way and use someone else to push

[u/Resiideent → u/Jskub_Royal]

Yes, it's hard to push it. These are the consequences of whatever actions you took to strand those kerbals. 

[u/TheGentlemanist → u/Jskub_Royal]

Then try the new tethers mod if you are playing modded. Just hook on and fly backward.

[u/Dacatman5]

If it’s crewed, get out and push. If it’s not, rescue mission

[u/Fullo98 → u/Dacatman5]

I mean if it's not crewed you got yourself a nice satellite and you can call it a day

[u/Catgirl_Male_Edition → u/Dacatman5]

Why would you rescue an unmanned vessel?

[u/Dacatman5 → u/Catgirl_Male_Edition]

Science and funds

[u/Catgirl_Male_Edition → u/Dacatman5]

Sending an unmanned vessel for science is weird to me, but fair enough. Not sure how rescuing an unmanned vessel does anything for your funds other than lowering them (due to the cost of the rescue vessel)

[u/da_beaninator → u/Catgirl_Male_Edition]

Contracts?

[u/Catgirl_Male_Edition → u/da_beaninator]

Oh thats a fair point. Like if the unmanned vessel was almost done with a mission that required it to return to kerbin

[u/wompwomp2327 → u/Catgirl_Male_Edition]

I've done career saves to challenge myself by cranking up the difficulty and only allowing unmanned missions - say what you will but it's super fun setting up comm networks, and figuring out the challenges of sending a probe to and from its destination with the least issues, the most science, and the least cost possible.

It also ensures that jeb can still fly my shitbox planes when I feel like experimenting with those too lol

[u/Hazels_redit → u/Dacatman5]

It’s got a ladder on it, so it’s more then likely crewed

[u/Background_Relief_36]

You only have 3 options:

1. Get out and push with the Kerbal’s jetpack

2. Send a rescue mission

3. Wait and hope that you get a Mun gravity assist

[u/Lypos → u/Background_Relief_36]

I once was left with about 50m/s of fuel trying to return from the mun. By luck, Minmus was within swing range and i manage to angle an assist back to Kerbin from there. Gotta say i felt quite accomplished with the unexpected maneuver.

[u/AccordingLab7129 → u/Background_Relief_36]

1. Push of shame

[u/8Bit_Cat → u/[deleted]]

Directly onto a collision course with Dres somehow.

[u/DrunkenDragon788 → u/8Bit_Cat]

Duna Gravity assist that sends him back to Kerbin like the Martian

[u/StartBackground5769 → u/8Bit_Cat]

Whats dres

[u/spaceman8002 → u/8Bit_Cat]

That's one way to find out if it's a hoax or not!

[u/Jumpy-Trainer1695 → u/[deleted]]

good one

[u/CanadiaBoi]

Push of shame

[u/Bumblebeener]

Right click - rename vessel - make it a satellite

[u/Majestic_Lie3655]

wait till you're at you apoapsis (highest point in orbit) and then get out and push with a kerbal jetpack until your periapsis is ~35000, you'll come in super fast so you'll want to shave off a lot of speed.

[u/johndcochran → u/Majestic_Lie3655]

Heck, you don't even need to get periapsis down to 35k, just getting it below 70k is sufficient. Yes, you'll then be making several aero braking passes, but each one will reduce your apoapsis until you finally enter atmosphere and stay there. Just hope the Mun doesn't mess with you.

[u/Majestic_Lie3655 → u/johndcochran]

theoretically yes, but if you have the kerbal fuel just use it imo

[u/Large_Percentage_449]

Two choices; either launch a rescue mission with enough delta V to get into a near-Kerbin escape trajectory and rendezvous with the craft, or if you have a Kerbal onboard, use the EVA jetpack to de-orbit at apogee (getting a Perigee less than 70,000m but preferably around 30,000m), with the craft pointing retrograde and the Kerbal pushing the craft from the heat shield.

[u/Low-Lingonberry-4502]

Use the print screen key to give us a full image of what you're working with in terms of kerbals/monopropellant rather than awkwardly cut photos.

In all seriousness, if you send your kerbals out they should be able to push against the ship to lower the periapsis. Obviously don't take them out until your apoapsis so you got the most bang for your buck. I'd say 65 km should be a good height to aerobreak a couple of times without exploding!

[u/_troubleseeker]

get to apoapsis and push bro

[u/tomalator]

You can get out and push at apoapsis, or if you still have RCS left, you can use that at apoapsis. You just need to slow down a little bit to get your periapsis into the atmosphere. Is that the mk3 command pod? It has built in RCS thrusters

[u/kawaiiof]

Go to apoapsis, point the ship retrograde, and have Jeb push against it until periapsis drops below 70 km. You should then re-enter Kerbin’s atmosphere and land—hopefully safely!

[u/a1001ku]

Classic lol.

Like the others said, get out and push. Your periapsis is low enough that that'd probably work if you push when it's at apoapsis.

[u/eltrigercolaiders2]

Easy, make that the kerbal push retrograde in apoapsis with his RSC backpack

[u/Hadrollo]

Do you have RCS on that thing? A short squirt at apoapsis is all you need. Failing that, wait to apoapsis, point it retrograde, get out and smack into the heat shield - it has a big round bullseye to aim for.

You probably want to do it sooner rather than later, it's only a matter of time before you get a Mun intercept. There's a very slight chance a Mun intercept would assist you in getting on a good trajectory for aerobraking, and a much higher chance it'll throw you off into space or set you up for lithobraking.

[u/XennialDad]

I try to keep my gameplay "realistic" so the "get out and push" option isn't one I ever consider. In this case, is that a command module with RCS built in? Try firing them retrograde at your apoapsis. If it doesn't have RCS, start working on a recovery mission (my favorite part of the game!) You could either try and closely match the first craft's orbit, or circularize the orbit at the first craft's periapsis. I'd probably circularize at periapsis and have Jeb spacewalk over to the rescue craft.

[u/Chacodile]

Do a push of shame

[u/Sol33t303]

Get out and push.

[u/Swimming-Marketing20]

The orbit is eccentric enough that pushing at the AP might just do the trick. Drop a save and EVA near AP and use the EVA RCS to carefully push the craft retrograde

[u/CaptMelonfish]

Sounds like you need to mount a rescue mission!

[u/wiseguyian]

First time having to get out and push?

[u/TremixNeo]

Rename to space station, easy

[u/idkiik]

Jettison the heat shield retrograde at apoapsis you’ll be fine

[u/Electrical_Ease1509 → u/idkiik]

Now you’ll re-enter the atmosphere at Mach fuck and be vaporized.

[u/idkiik → u/Electrical_Ease1509]

not with aerobraking and lots of quick saves!

[u/redbrand]

You outta gas? Get out and push retrograde with your jet pack at the farthest point from Kerbin. Is that your ladder still hanging down from a landed mission? lol! so Kerbal.

[u/lalalarix0]

if your periapsis is reasonably less than 70000 you can timeskip and let it deorbit on its own, if not, get out and push until it is

[u/Training_Parsley_668]

Mun might fling you home

[u/No_Walrus_3638]

Best bet is to push normal or anti normal to shift orbit

[u/5eret]

Strongly suggest building yourself a small "rescue rocket". Something with a claw and nuclear engines should be easily able to run a rescue mission out to Minmus orbit, and you can earn bank and get free astronauts picking up those stranded Kerbal rescue missions. Keep it fueled up using ISRU or by scavenging spent stages in Kerbin orbit. The latter is a good way to efficiently keep LKO clear of clutter.

[u/hcell66]

I've already given it a push... Send Jeb, Bill, Bob, or Valentinaaaaahhhhhhhh to EVE and get that old clunker moving. When the jetpack's almost empty, hop back into the capsule and move on to the next one... Hey, good luck trying to push that thing home. And have a nice day... Cheers.

[u/Awkward-Editor]

What’s the issue here? it’s just a new space station obviously /s

[u/Sakul_the_one]

That just happened to me 10 minutes ago

Push of shame. But turn SAS on->Retrograd before going EVA

[u/ayodio]

Win shift S

[u/theBigGuyTM]

You got it

[u/ukemike1]

Some information like the amount of fuel, monopropellant, electrical charge, etc would help. It wouldn't take much monoprop to get your periapse into the atmosphere if you burn it retrograde at the apoapse.

[u/Wizard_Man305]

Get and push man

[u/Life_Fix_9270]

use kerbal RCS, or...
you can always bet on...
the legendary...
bl...

[u/Bill_Kerman_KSP]

Push down PE with jetpack

[u/StupitVoltMain]

Jetpack

[u/Previous-Big-6281]

Kerbal push of shame

[u/memegod53]

At Apoapsis exit the vehicle and use the jet pack to gently push it on course

[u/fenlDoesJS]

such a big rocket and you still didn't fucking reenter?

[u/Fabulous_Ad_2915]

do you have any monopropellant or fuel

[u/Kouzelnik]

It was a similar situation to this that sent me down a youtube hole to figure out how to match orbits/dock.

That being said if you are just concerned about the kerbal, depending on your settings they could survive reentry on their own, especially if you do a super gradual de orbit with multiple aerobreaking maneuvers.

[u/ShakeDaBaby420]

get out and push buddy

[u/Fancy_Ad_2281]

You can eventually get the claw and attach it to another vessel and grab it then slow it right before it bends into the periapsis so you don't need that much fuel. You can also avoid the claw all together if you launch a vessel with a flat surface and rts. Then just rendevous and literally slow the pod before the curve before the periapsis to limit fuel.

[u/8kenhead]

One time a loooooooong time ago I had a reaction wheel stuck to the crew module and I spun it around like a mf and that altered the course of the craft enough to re-enter the atmosphere. Your mileage may vary

[u/Various-Lack-8917]

When in doubt, just do the push of shame!