SSU to ISS

[Usquanigo]

I finally made it and rendezvoued on stock fuel settings. (thanks to a lot of help from tblaxland in getting the ISS positioned better)

But I ran out before I could dock. Any SSU experts out there up for making a detailed tutorial (even video)?

One thing is, even with the updated ISS position (for the STS-120 mission) I still had to do an alignment burn, which ate up RCS, plus a handful of other burns to get things situated. I thought I was doing well on fuel, but apparently not. :/

If anyone does want to do a tutorial (which would be much appreciated), it doesn't have to be for that specific mission, but more of a general process/method for having it nailed cold.

 

[SiameseCat]

If you ran out of fuel for the Forward RCS, you can save fuel by using tail-only control for holding attitude, using VERN DAP, and by reducing the DAP rotation rates.