Lab Data Question: Does Data capacity stack?

[Duke Leto]

I have a Science Lab with 500 data and a dozen Level 1 Kerbal Scientists processing it.

The speed at which they process this data into science is a daily percentage of the total data.

So is it capped at 500 or will sending up another lab to attach to the station raise the cap to 1000 data?

[Signo]

As far as I know the 500 data storage limit is about a single lab. I never tried a double config tough.

[Sharpy]

I'm almost sure you'd be better off parking the other lab three kilometers away.

[Foxster]

I'm almost sure you'd be better off parking the other lab three kilometers away.

Why 3km?

[Sharpy]

More than 2.2 at which they load together, which in connection with rest of the base and arriving of more complex crafts creates FPS issues. Close enough than a kerbal on EVA can transfer experiments from one to the other. Plus less Kraken-prone; leaving two crafts together in the same "load zone" but not docked to each other may lead to unpleasant surprises. And benefits of having two labs instead of one.

If you leave them on the same orbit (identical altitude of periapsis and apoapsis) just one trailing the other by 3km, they will remain at that distance for a long, long time.

[Duke Leto]

Interesting idea, although that sounds even more exploity than what I was proposing. You probably should not be able to process the same data in two labs in different locations.