Hi, I'm a little confused... Had a mission which was to perform sub-orbital flight to Sun for one of the tourists and fly by the Sun for the other. First attempt, the other night I had a very slow but very efficient rocket crawling its way to the level of required Delta-V. I was reducing speed at the Apoapsis, and after half an hour or so, attained the required mission parameters for mission success, I was about 10 minutes past the Apoapsis when this happened. Yay! Except, at this point I was curious about how close you can get to the Sun so time accelerated up... oops! forgot to save the game while I was still at the Apoapsis... Oops! not enough fuel to correct course now that I'm this far away from the Apoapsis! *eventual explodey* Attempt 2, did almost the same thing, but tried to be a little more efficient and used some gravity from Kerbin and the Mun to get started and save a little bit of burn time... these slow nuclear rockets man... As a result I was still climbing towards the Apoapsis by the time I had reached a trajectory that touched the Sun surface, whereas the first attempt I was past the Apoapsis, really that's the only major difference, same rocket, same crew, same launch day - reverted to a save game before the launch. That's the background. So, what I wanted to find out was exactly how to trigger this... except I just loaded up KSP to get the exact wording of the mission and the "suborbital flight" portion no longer exists (was this patched out since last night?). Still leaves "fly past the Sun" before I can complete, so I guess the question is the same: 1. What is the maximum Periapsis distance to Sun to complete the mission? 2. If the game was patched overnight, are there changes to this mission that make it now require my Apoapsis to be closer to the sun? 2. Also, as per my first attempt, do I need to be descending from the Apoapsis to the Periapsis at the actual time I reach the required distance to sun surface, or should it be OK to adjust my course while I'm still climbing towards the Apoapsis? 3. Do I need to actually complete the "fly-by" and do a complete orbit now? First attempt triggered event success while I was still about as far out as Kerbin's orbit. 4. Is there a chance this mission could be glitched out due to the apparent patching of the game to remove the "suborbital flight to sun" missions? (I have not looked into this, has it actually been removed or is something else really strange going on here?) Given the extremely long burn time I'd rather just ditch the mission than have another attempt if there's actual bugs preventing completion. I would like to complete it if it does work though, a little annoyed I actually completed it once already and lost progress due to my stupid experimentation Thanks in advance, sorry for long rambling explanation (I like details!)
