Casper139

The Craft just explodes. Thermometers blink for a half second and boom. No flips or anything. The shield appears to merge in the picture, but they do clear. I will try a new approach rather than a Jool AC. Gravity assist will be a new thing for me. Thanks for the suggestions.

Need help here. Before 1.0.3/1.0.4 patches, I used Jool to aerocapture with a mining craft I've been working on. The goal was to land on Tylo. My first attempts at aerocapture got me into Jool orbit and I easily transfered to Tylo. I came up short of fuel to land however, but that's beside the point. I built a new lander and was trying again today after the recent patches. My Periapsis entering Jool atmosphere was always between 185000 to 190000. Now, as soon as I hit the atltitude of about 198000m, My craft explodes. Ironically, I placed heat shields on the craft before the patch was released. I enter the atmosphere prograde leading with sheilds. How do we Aerocapture now? Does my design suck?