u/Litestreams

Hello, thought about this today. I know now from reading all the posts that launching 3 satellites at once and then sending them into orbits of different periods would have been better, but at this point I have one geostationary satellite in place and another one saved in a circularized LKO.

I was wondering after seeing that the space between satellite at geostationary 120 degree spacing is 5.999 if the targeting software in map view will show me the intercept distance and I just move the geostationary-burn (from LKO to AP out at 2.86MM) around the current orbit until it shows me an intercept distance of 6 million?

Edit to add: It definitely got me 'close enough' for the geostationary constellation. I created a maneuver node on my 72k circularized orbit for 672.4m/s to an apo of 2,863,342m with Intersect 1 and Intersect 2 both showing 6,000.3km - which is what I hoped I would see. After getting there and circularizing PE, I can see I am at 6.070MM separation, with both sats in an orbit of 5 hr 59 m 9 seconds. Did the same with the third satellite and now I have pretty triangle network from geostationary Kerbin satellites.

At 14:20 of this video, https://youtu.be/jW756GUltXg?is=JE3CYFVRbToprqAn , Mike Aben is tweaking the delta V of his ship by removing an upper fuel tank on 2 of his liquid fuel boosters and replacing it with a smaller one.

I have not been able to replicate this action. I have to drag the boosters off or delete them and rebuild them (usually spending 4-6 minutes trying to get them attached to the radial de-couplers).

Is there a key stroke or click, or am I misunderstanding what I see on the screen?

I am following Mike Aben's excellent 6 year old playlist. I was just able to get almost a perfect circular equatorial orbit! Which collected some science on an EVA from the materials lab and the other early-Science Mode kit, and returned on board, de-orbited and landed shortly after this photo. That was the ship 'Cain'.

Unfortunately, 'Eve' was my first 'successful' orbital attempt. As you can see, I had a lot of difficulty at launch and it is nearly a polar orbit. Furthermore, I thought maybe holding 'Shift' would let me zoom around differently in Map mode (like it does in the Vehicle Assembly Building)....so when I held Shift from the map I lit my engine and spent all 2s of de-orbiting fuel I had. Knowing about the 'push with your jet pack method'...but having never jet-packed before...I EVA'ed and let go of the vessel. Quickly googled to learn how to turn on my Jetpack and was quickly 750M away the ship. Tried a few times to get closer but just kept yo-yo'ing between 350-750M. At some point in here, I switched to the Space Center and lost the ability to revert to launch. Oh, and it appears you can run out of EVA thruster fuel so that happened also.

Long story short, sounds like I have a 'Rescue' mission and a 'De-orbit abandoned vessel' mission to do. I think it may be a few more videos down the playlist till I learn how to do that, and the wonky orbit probably won't make it easy without Mods but I am willing to give it a try!