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Ppl say it is statistically difficult (ie impossible) to hit random debris, but when you consider *EVERY* launch goes to a 125km equatorial orbit and leaves debris then the impossible becomes probable.

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If you can accidentally hit another object at high speeds, you deserve Jeb\'s chin :P

I did that just last week. In the space of 5 seconds, I lost the middle of my Munar lander and my parachute. (The back half of my rocket took it off.)

I was facing retrograde, so I didn\'t notice until it hit... I think it was an RCS tank with attached thrusters. My screenshot finger didn\'t get there in time.

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Why on Kerbin would someone eject a single spent rcs tank ???

Might it be that you purposefully littered the space around the planet with debris so it would eventually happen ;)

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Why on Kerbin would someone eject a single spent rcs tank ???

Might it be that you purposefully littered the space around the planet with debris so it would eventually happen ;)

Actually, on one of my designs, i had to apply RCS tanks to the lander due to size issues, which are then seperated themselves when i need to use the lander, it results in 4 RCS tanks floating freely in space.

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I only just edited my persistent file to get rid of the debris, but I had a bad design for an unmanned Minmus probe, and each one left a total of 9 stacks in a circular orbit around Kerbin, which eventually made equatorial orbits somewhat dangerous.

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