I got the mission to construct an orbital station around Duna including a mobile processing lab and room for 7 kerbals. It also needed to be fully assembled on launch. Halfway to Duna I discovered I did not have enough battery power to transmit 500 science points from the MPL. I reloaded a quicksave where the station was still in orbit around Kerbin and sent a probe with some extra batteries inside. My on board engineer did a quick EVA, added the batteries and I sent the probe off again. It wasn't until I circlerised at Duna that I noticed the first green tick was gone. I'm now wondering that if my engineer would delete these batteries on arrival at Duna, would that count again?? I was looking for this answer when I arrived here. Wel.. only one way to find out.. I'll check tomorrow and have an update if
Update: it worked!
Just removing the pieces that were added after launch does count as 'fully assembled when launched'!
