Comms via docking

[carlsb3rg]

I was doing a mission where I had to put a science lab in orbit around the Mun with room for at least 5 Kerbals and comms. I managed to forget putting any comms on the lab and the shuttle, so I sent another ship up with an antenna. This validated the mission, but I still can't send any data from the lab. Can't comms pass through docking ports? If not, does anyone have any other suggestions apart from transfering everyone to a new science lab and destroying the old one? ;) Edited November 21, 2015 by carlsb3rg

[Snark]

That's odd, that really ought to work.

I'm guessing that the answer to this next question is "yes", but just to confirm: have you successfully used science labs on other missions in the past?

Assuming so, and therefore that this is a problem specifically with this mission and not with your usage of science labs in general, I have no idea. It ought to work, as long as you have enough electricity to transmit. Perhaps you've found a bug?

[Zephram Kerman]

If you put an image, perhaps someone might spot a detail that explains it.

Some easy things to try:
• F5 then F9 to reload the scene
• undock then redock in a different sequence
• is the science lab unoccupied or otherwise inoperative?

That's all I can think of.

[Streetwind]

Welome to the forums!

Do you run the ScienceAlert mod? It may cause you to be unable to transmit stuff right now, it is a known issue. Also compare: [url]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/140007[/url]

[carlsb3rg]

[quote name='Streetwind']Welome to the forums!

Do you run the ScienceAlert mod? It may cause you to be unable to transmit stuff right now, it is a known issue. Also compare: [URL]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/140007[/URL][/QUOTE]

No mods. The funny thing is that after I went to Kerbal for a while and did some other missions, and then went back to my lab, transmission worked perfectly. It's strange because I didn't do anything at all. It just complained about not having any comm device, and suddenly it worked. Oh well. Can't really complain now that it works ;)

[BenCushwa]

I had an issue similar to that one. I don't know exactly what resolved it, but when I saved, closed, and reloaded the issue was gone. I'm guessing that KSP does some sort of check to see if a ship has comms on it when the game loads and goes from there, but who knows.

Side note: For a while I got so bad about attaching antennae to things that I made grabber-comms probes to fix my mistakes. Just launch one, ram it into the lab, and boom, instant comms. I called them OIDIA probes: Opps, I Did It Again.... B^)