I'm having a really frustrating problem. I sent out a science mission to Eve, consisting of an orbiter and a return vessel, now separated and both in stable orbit around Eve. Both probes have solid connections via 88-88s to my relay network back around Kerbin, and both have working Communotron 32s, and are in range of each other. Unless I've grossly misunderstood something, I should be able to deactivate the 88-88 on one of the vessels (we'll say the orbiter), and that vessel should remain connected through Comm32[orbiter]->Comm32[return vessel]-88-88[return vessel]->88-88[Kerbin Relay Sat]->KSC. But, doesn't work. if I deactivate the 88-88, I can see in the map view that I'm still connected to the other probe, but the connection doesn't propagate back to KSC, and I lose control. Any idea?