Does Remote Tech need line of sight for dishes?

[fommil]

I've just started playing a Hard career with Remote Tech and I took/completed the 4 satellite Kerbin network with equatorial 450km orbits, roughly equally spaced (that's about the limit of my rocketry I'm afraid).

Then I took the contract to point a dish at Minmus (I used a KR-7). I thought it would be useful to put this one at about 450km polar, so that it also extends the Kerbin relay network... but I wasn't actually expecting the contract to complete because Minmus disappeared behind Kerbin during the 2 day smoke test, yet it did succeed. (I had expected that I'd have to orient my polar orbit so that it had 100% visibility of Minmus during the testing period, but that this visibility would eventually decay).

Now I'm confused, I thought all comms had to have line of sight which is broken by planets. How come I was able to fulfil the Minmus dish contract even though Minmus went behind Kerbin? If so, what's stopping me from just putting a dish on the launch pad and pointing it at Minmus?

[Svm420]

The contract doesn't care about LOS. It does matter though for vessel control and science transmission and planets will occlude LOS so your landed dish will only work when it can see minmus.

[fommil]

ok, so basically to get the contract money I should have just put a dish on the landing site :-)

I'll need to cook up a relay that has 100% visibility of Minmus. Probably should have put the dishes on my main kerbin relay network in hindsight.

[Svm420]

No that's no true it still had to be orbiting Kerbin