Atheistic_Logic

So way back when I started playing ksp I remember a wiki article on what your max velocity should be at various kerbin altitudes. It went something like 110m/s for 1000m, 120m/s for 2000m, 160m/s for 5000m, 260m/s for 10000. I remember testing full burns vs controlled burns, and noticed that it is more efficient to follow this chart. Thing is, I now restarted the game, and am experimenting with the basic solid boosters. I am finding that it is less efficient to lower the thrust limiter on the bacc thumper booster. At 100% thrust, it gets me a 42 second burn, to an altitude of about 296 000m. If I do a 75% thrust limit burn, I get ~56 second burn, altitude of 267 000m. Can anyone explain why the 75% doesn't get me higher? I'm sure it's something obvious I'm overlooking. The pattern above is also true the more you lower the thrust ( I tried it at 50% thrust as well)

I just got 4000 science from my orbiters around mun, duna, minmus and kerbin. I mean, using the contracts 'science data from X' --> 35% with this strategy = ~4000 science in 2 minutes It must have been noticed by others too... disregard if old, sorry

Thank you for the speedy response. By sending science though, do you lose science? In the sense that, if there is a loss in transmission, can you repeat the experiment / transmission to get 100% worth?

Greetings. Last I played KSP was in June, so I have 2 questions. In many videos I see people transmit science at a 100 % rate, is this possible or was this fixed by 0.23? Second, I read in the patch notes that you can only transmit once. Is this true? Or do some parts allow for re-sends? Thanks