Completely unrealistic requirement for satellite placement.

[Wingnutt]

I'm on a contract to place a sat in a specific orbit around the mun.

Ive got it to the point that it is so close to the requested orbit that any adjustments are literally less than 0.1 m/s changes.. I.E. non existent.

My Pe and Ap markers are dead on exactly on top of the contract markers and the orbit markers are flickering blue/purple because they are directly perfectly one top of each other.

Contract Pe 301,967 Current Pe 302,0xx

Contract AP 469,328 Current Ap 469,2xx

I leave the last 2 letters as Xs because the numbers are not stable, they are jittering around.

It is not possible for me to make it any closer than it is. Ive done a number of these type of missions and have never had a problem, but this, this is literally impossible, it cannot get any closer than it is..

The contract section that is not fulfilled is the part: "reach orbit within marginal deviation.

the "stable for 10 seconds" and the satellite type stuff is good to go.

EDIT: after 2 hours of trying to get it, I finally ran out of monopropellent.

I was making adjustments so small that the only way I would not overshoot was to tap the RCS thrusters to make very tiny changes.

I'm really kinda pissed off, this is either a glitch, or just plain stupid.

Edited August 21, 2015 by Wingnutt

[Mesklin]

Are you sure about right direction of your orbit? You could make backward orbit as per requested.

[NightOwl07]

Just to double check, is the satellite orbiting in the right direction?

^ Ninja'ed

[jwenting]

yes, either you're orbiting in the wrong direction (been there, done that) or it doesn't recognise the orbit as stable because of the jittering (highly unlikely and easy to see in the contract, see if the condition is met).

[Wingnutt]

I returned to the space center, then went back.. 10 seconds later all green.. Mission accomplished..

[Sharpy]

Heh, I got a better one. Sentinel for Eve, place in designated orbit, which actually intersected orbit of Moho... got the satellite there, then found out my inclination was 180 degrees off.

Seriously? Sentinel in retrograde Sun orbit at Moho altitude? Is someone bonkers?

Anyway, ended up cancelling the contract and leaving the satellite there. A month later another one came, and this time I didn't even need to adjust the orbit, the satellite just got accepted where it was.