Wixit

Had I known it was such a rarity I would have recorded the impact for you guys. I'll chalk this one up to Jeb's Junkyard needing a new garbage disposal location. Tried that, but it would have fallen into the SOI eventually anyway. I could have simply made the orbit slightly larger (the tolerance feels larger than it used to) but where's the fun in that? Thanks. Yeah like I said I'll collect either way, but this was mostly a mechanics question; I'm guessing a rescue mission could be generated under similar circumstances and knowing this might happen to the poor sap in the heap will make me at least do a quick check for this scenario. As I'm too lazy to do rocket science to play a game I have both revert flight and quickload available, so money's not really an issue. A pre-launch planner would be nice though.

Hi folks, I recently accepted a mission to deploy a satellite into an equatorial Kerbin orbit. No problem, easy money, and I'll collect either way, but the orbital parameters are... unfortunate: before the satellite will perform a single orbit around Kerbin it will crash into Mun. In picture form: The satellite in question is in the blue orbit which I'll extend into the red orbit and right around the required periapsis a Mun encounter will occur with terminal results. Now I realize rapid unplanned disassembly is the norm for Kerbals but it seems like such a waste of perfectly functional hardware to me. Does the game perform any checks to ensure orbits are stable or does it just hope for the best when the mission is generated?