Quote Originally Posted by Trekkin View Post
SO I have an odd problem with some of my interplanetary flights: they arrive at their destinations in retrograde orbits, which means more than once I've launched a lander back off the planet surface in the wrong direction.

I know I can just speed up time in Map View and look which way the transit stage is going, but is there any way to tell at a glance which way something's orbiting? It'd be handy to be able to notice I'm going backwards and compensate with the transit stage rather than having to do a Hohmann transfer from retrograde.
IIRC every planet is rotating west-> east right? If youre going solar "up" or out to a farther away planet you want to under shoot and get your encounter behind the target. If you want to go 'down' to a planet you want to overshoot and encounter it ahead of its orbit. Either way the planet should pull you into orbit rotating prograde.