Why aren't my chutes opening?

[tsmx]

So I've got this baby aerobraking on Kerbin.

Spoiler

It has got two chute modules with 8 drogue and 8 regular chutes on each. Drogue chutes are set to deploy as early as possible.
The problem is that it crashes on Kerbin surface with all chutes staged (with blue-on-red icons on staging panel) but not deployed. None of them is even destroyed until crash - they simply don't work.

What am I doing wrong?

[ARS]

In VAB, set the deploy altitude for drogue parachute higher, preferrably maximum value, and set the blue parachute altitude around half of that. Also, set the atmospheric pressure for drogue chutes at low, while the blue chute at half

Use drogue first, right click on drogue chute on reentry and once it says safe, deploy it. Now right click on blue parachute once the drogue is deployed and wait for safe indicator again for deployment. Drogue safe deployment speed is around 800 m/s while blue chute is around 400 m/s

Blue on red indicator means you are too fast. Try shallower reentry angle to avoid going down too fast and give your capsule enough time to slow it down to safe deployment speed

Edited December 24, 2018 by ARS

[4x4cheesecake]

2 hours ago, tsmx said:

with blue-on-red icons on staging panel

Blue on red? That means your chutes are armed but your vessel is too fast for the chutes to open. Try a shallow reentry angle so you can slow down enough for the chutes to open.

[Gapone]

4 hours ago, tsmx said:

blue-on-red

On red means "would be destroyed" They won't deploy.

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Edited December 24, 2018 by Gapone

[tsmx]

man, that sucks
my orbit is almost circular, just look at periapsis and aproapsis numbers in kerbal engineer infos

looks like it was a bad idea to aerobrake with asteroid, RIP jeb

[bewing]

2 hours ago, tsmx said:

looks like it was a bad idea to aerobrake with asteroid, RIP jeb

It is doable, theoretically. The easiest way is to mine the asteroid first. After you take all the ore out, an asteroid slows down really fast.

It's also doable with an intact asteroid, but you need a lot more aerodynamics on your craft than you have. Wings & fins will slow even a very massive craft.