I am trying to send multiple satellites in space at the same time.
The satellites medium-sized and they need quite a bit of fuel so I want them to be radially attached to the main part of the rocket during ascent.
The problem is that if I attach the satellites to the radial decouplers, after staging, the decoupler will stay attached to the sattelites. This is not desired because, not only that useless mass is attached to those sattelites, but the center of mass is a bit off-centered, making the satellite harder to maneuver.
I want the radial decoupler not to be attached on my satellite payloads when I stage, but I really don't know how. It doesn't matter where the decoupler itself ends but I don't want it attached to the payload.
I tried the following:
- Change the orientation of the radial decoupler to face the main part so that it might be attached to the main part after staging. It didn't work.. for some reason it still remained attached to the payload.
- Try to put two radial decouplers one over the other (and facing against eachother, just like you can do with the stack decouplers). Doesn't work.
Eventually I ended up putting yet another decoupler on the other side of the payload/satellites so that even if the added mass doubles, at least the center of mass won't be off-centered anymore.
Is there a solution to this?
Thank you!
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on the keyboard, or upper-left of your viewport, looks a bit like the letter Z.Admittedly, I haven't done this for a couple of versions, but it should probably still work. :)