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    [1.0.5 - Alpha 6] Dang It! (12 september 2015)

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    i just perused the wiki but thought i'd sho
    ot the question off anyhow : I've docked a small science probe at my minmus base, it's rcs powered and does remote survey contracts - after each mission it lands and always both engines fail, i can repair them with my present crew but only to a terrible condition and not beyond. So it's throw-out time for my probe.

    Thing is, this has happened exactly the same way 3 times in a row now - 3 minmus probe deliveries and 3 engine failures after about a 2000m/s delta V trip surveying minmus with every probe. Does this mean that the monopropellant engines are sh*t and my crew aren't skilled enough to repair them? Or is it actually some kind of annoying loopy ......"bug"? - i dare use the word.

    I don't have this mod installed (yet), but have had a browse on the forum posts here, and I would *guess* that the mean time between failures (MTBF) isn't set to be conducive to long duration usage of RCS thrusters as primary propulsion.

    Perhaps go into the part config files and manually edit them? Previous posts offer advice on where to find the settings.

    You might want to think about realism, if that's your thing... RCS is pretty reliable IRL for station-keeping and so forth, but I'm not sure about number of engine restarts and so forth.

    PS - Is this the radial monoprop engines? Or RCS thrusters? If the probe is small enough you can probably get to orbit on RCS thrusters on Minmus, so I'm not sure which part(s) you're talking about. I can imagine the RCS thrusters might have a low MTBF set in the config files, because they don't fire for long durations and otherwise they'd never fail.

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