Why isn't this a sub-orbital flight?

[acerola]

Why isn't this a sub-orbital flight?

 

[ghpstage]

No idea.

I think you can click on the tab with a kerbal icon in the upper, far right area of the screen to see what the game thinks it is.

[Reactordrone]

Your apoapsis appears to be outside the Mun's sphere of influence so you're escaping. A small burn retrograde should bring you inside.

ETA- It'll need to be less than 2400km

Edited April 22, 2016 by Reactordrone
added SOI information

[acerola]

1 minute ago, Reactordrone said:

Your apoapsis appears to be outside the Mun's sphere of influence so you're escaping. A small burn retrograde should bring you inside.

 

Tried that. Didn't work.

[Reactordrone]

What does your information tab say?

[acerola]

17 minutes ago, Reactordrone said:

What does your information tab say?

Situation: SUB_ORBITAL

It seems the information tab recognizes it is sub-orbital but the contract tab doesn't. 

[Reactordrone]

The only other thing I could suggest is to go into orbit and then drop back to sub-orbit.

[acerola]

2 minutes ago, Reactordrone said:

The only other thing I could suggest is to go into orbit and then drop back to sub-orbit.

Tried that, but ran out of fuel.

I am going to wait a bit longer until these bugs are fixed before coming back to KSP.

Thanks all for the help.

[Superfluous J]

That there looks like a bug. I bet Squad would love a look at your save and log files, assuming you can load it up in a stock game.

Edited April 22, 2016 by 5thHorseman

[Streetwind]

Sometimes contract requirements are a little unintuitive. It's possible that the "suborbital" thing won't be checked off until all the other conditions in that section are also checked off (i.e. the "altitude between 150km and 160km" bit etc). That is because the contract only cares whether or not you are suborbital in the exact moment all conditions are fulfilled.

[Starwaster]

Missing vital information. Look at your contract window. Do you see that thing that says [+]Note: ?

Click the + and see what other information it displays. It may have other conditions that must be met.

[Hodari]

Also, did you activate that engine by STAGING to it while in suborbital flight and at the correct altitude?

[Plusck]

4 hours ago, Streetwind said:

Sometimes contract requirements are a little unintuitive. It's possible that the "suborbital" thing won't be checked off until all the other conditions in that section are also checked off (i.e. the "altitude between 150km and 160km" bit etc). That is because the contract only cares whether or not you are suborbital in the exact moment all conditions are fulfilled.

I've never seen it do that, unless it's bugged. The "suborbital" bit should be checked off as soon as you are out of the atmosphere (if ascending) or as soon as your orbit line intersects the ground (if descending).

Likewise for @Starwaster and @Hodari - I've never experienced a situation where a condition is not checked off just because another condition is not checked off.

[Superfluous J]

31 minutes ago, Plusck said:

Likewise for @Starwaster and @Hodari - I've never experienced a situation where a condition is not checked off just because another condition is not checked off.

And even if it happened before, it's still a bug.

[numerobis]

Some bugs like this you can work around by going to the space center and back.

(Those are the worst from a developers standpoint, because you can't just load up a save to replicate them!)

[mrclucks]

If you truly meet all parameters of the contract and it's still not completing then you can always try the debug menu and complete the contract manually(alt f12, then go to the contracts tab and press com I believe