Flight Question Rendevous with iss problem - it's always at night.

[betito123]

Why i always dock with iss at night? can somebody answer me that? or that is a orbiter physics probmem

 

[Kyle]

Reduce your rate of closure to the ISS until the sun rises.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

If you are in a "parking orbit" after launch, if you wait until orbital sunset to perform the burn to raise your apoapsis to match the altitude of the ISS, then your rendezvous point will be at orbital sunrise.

Check out Tex's video for a visual explanation... (it's on the tutorials page)

 

[statickid]

Alternatively, launch with a different scenario, or while on the runway, time accelerate past 1 or two launch windows

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Or rendezvous then kill your relative speed about a kilometer away then wait til sunrise to dock

 

[blixel]

Hopefully this helps.

 

[statickid]

so to answer your OP, its not a bug, its a feature!! :thumbup:

 

[betito123]

Thank you very much guys i solved the problem!! :tiphat: