I was going for my first orbital flight. As i know by now, you have to prepare for extensive heat when reentering into kerbal. So i equipped my rocket with enough parachutes (Normal and Drogue) to savely land and also, to protect my chutes from heatdistruction, put some radiator panel on them. As i came back down i started my radiator panels seperately and waited for the heat to cool down, but form the moment the heat started my chutes where all red( would have been destroyed upon opening) and never became useable again, even after completely cooling down and reaching speeds below 700m/s. The only way to make them work again, was to turn the radiator panels of again, after cooling down..
I see no logical connection there, since the chutes are not obstructed by the panels( on or off) when launching the rocket.
Anyone know whats happening there?
Why would my radiation panel kill my chutes? (only after reentry)
Do even need to protect chutes?
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Yeah i had the wrong m/s in mind. Had even more than 500 on impact hence the "red chutes".
Thanks for the awesome replys. i learned more than just about chutes.
What an awesome game