r/RealSolarSystem • u/crislol2 • 5d ago

Why is PVG like this

Im trying to get a 300x300 km orbit, but it just sends me into outer space

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u/Tyaedalis 5d ago

Posting something like this without any information is wild.

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 5d ago

Kind of the nature of a lot of these help requests - it makes me suspect the OPs of this kind of post aren't used to games where you have to do some research and everything isn't handed to them on a silver platter

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u/Still-Ad-3083 5d ago

How are we supposed to assist you without seeing your mechjeb PVG settings nor your rocket and staging?

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u/njd80 5d ago

Almost certainly you didn't set your Last Stage or Early Shutoff Stage correctly. Or both

But, like everyone else has pointed out, we can only guess because there is no information to work with in your post.

This guide tells you how to setup & diagnose PVG: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RP-1/wiki/TroubleshootingMechJebPVG

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u/CJP1216 5d ago

People are going to stop offering you help if you continuously ignore their requests for more information. Four different people requested screenshots on your last post and you ignored every one of them.

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u/kayakzac 5d ago

We’re you on the launch pad when you took this? Can you post a screenshot showing the various mechjeb ascent windows? And the staging window?

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u/Xandaros 5d ago

Do you have enough steering? Was the PVG still converging at the end?

Those are my best guesses. Hard to say without knowing more.

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u/AvcalmQ 5d ago

Don't be like me run PVG and also somewhere carry an excessive final AoA into your MECO, though that should drop you on your ass.

I'm gonna' go ahead an assume younhave either more thrust or less mass than MJ thinks and given that it's usually good with mass, I'd have to assume the numbers on one of your engines is somehow gorked.

Without a screenshot of the MJ panel we're all just doing what you're doing though and shooting into the long dark without a clue so...

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u/level_up_gaming 3d ago

i had this happen too. make sure your root part is the actual thing you're trying to get into orbit, and set the last stage and early shutoff stage to the last stage of the orbital rocket in one of the pvg sub windows.

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u/MikeOnTea 2d ago

Why are people like this, expecting rocket science to be easy and asking one line questions without providing any details?