Is this correct or am I being a numpty?

[stk2008]

Ok all I need to ask you some thing.

I have set up a simple rocket that looks like this

 

Now as you can see the fins are angled so it spins it is very stable as one would expect ( just like a bullet from a gun).

 

Any way for the actual problem I went through the Ozone and right out into space where there is no AIR/Resistance etc.

After a while my craft stoped spinning but why? there is no resistance acting upon the fins to cause drag?.

I know the earths gravity is acting upon the craft still but why did the ship slow down and stop spinning?

 

EDIT

 

Its like the rotation that I had from the earth did not carry through to space as if KSP resets the physics.

 

 

 

Edited April 26, 2016 by stk2008

[John FX]

Just to check, you didn`t timewarp at any point, that would stop you and so would leaving and coming back to the flight scene.

 

Interesting question. I don`t suffer from this as I use PersistentRotation which keeps your momentum up even during warp.

 

My first suggestion would be to launch that craft in an install that has no mods and see if it still happens. If it does then report it on the bugtracker. Things shouldn`t stop spinning when in space...

[stk2008]

Yep my point exactly I should have spun forever I shall look into this more

[stk2008]

Ok another question LOL.

I have sent a rocket off into space and if you look at its path of flight its a long way from the earth but I will according to the flight path come back to earth.

Is this right I mean surly the earthes gravity has no effect that far out?

[blorgon]

28 minutes ago, stk2008 said:

Ok another question LOL.

I have sent a rocket off into space and if you look at its path of flight its a long way from the earth but I will according to the flight path come back to earth.

Is this right I mean surly the earthes gravity has no effect that far out?

Have you not noticed that there are two moons orbiting Kerbin?

Gravitational fields actually expand into space to infinity. The reason everything isn't crashing into each other all the time is that gravity is also the weakest fundamental force, and that a gravitational field's strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from source. This is why Earth's gravity isn't able to pull on Alpha Centauri Bc, a small rocky planet orbiting our closest star, Alpha Centauri (actually a binary system)—because Alpha Centauri is a LOT closer to that planet than we are, and so its gravity "wins" over ours.

That's in real life. In KSP, there isn't what's called n-body gravitation, meaning that the only source of gravity your vessel experiences at any given time is the gravity of the body whose sphere of influence it is currently within. The boundary of Kerbin's sphere of influence, or SoI, is 84,159,286m from the center of the planet.

Edited April 26, 2016 by blorgon

[stk2008]

Two moons orbiting kerbin?

[blorgon]

3 minutes ago, stk2008 said:

Two moons orbiting kerbin?

Yep. Check this out, lots of good information here:

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Kerbin