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So I tried making a mun lander (craft linked) and as I get into orbit using my second stage and accelerate to get a circular orbit one of my landing engines along with the RCS fuel tank above it falls off for no reason. Could anyone help me with why?

EDIT: Alright it won't let me upload my craft file nor when I tried to put it into a RAR. Anyone know what I need to do?

EDIT 2: It seems to be happening to more than one of my landing engines and RCS tanks now. The thing is that in the middle there's a fuel tank for the engine, below that the landing engine and above the fuel tank a RCS tank. There are four of these and they're all attached to a middle pillar by a strut, the strut is connected to the fuel tank in the middle. The engines and tanks seem to fall off once I get out of my "fast forward". I fast forward 50x and wait until I've gotten to my apoapsis when I'm in orbit or whatever the name is and then when I go out of it they just fall off.

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I posted something similar in the general discussion board. I also had engines on my lander stage detach themselves from the ship, not under thrust, but while I was idling at zero G in Kerbin orbit or coasting toward Mun. No explosion. The engines just fell off and floated away.

Olsson, where you using the little 20 thrust engine, and was there a decoupler underneath it or was it suspended by another part? (I'd add screenshots but they're wonky right now.)

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I posted something similar in the general discussion board. I also had engines on my lander stage detach themselves from the ship, not under thrust, but while I was idling at zero G in Kerbin orbit or coasting toward Mun. No explosion. The engines just fell off and floated away.

Olsson, where you using the little 20 thrust engine, and was there a decoupler underneath it or was it suspended by another part? (I'd add screenshots but they're wonky right now.)

I don't have a decoupler underneath it, infact I have nothing underneath the engines. Though they are as you said suspended by a fueltank. They're hanging from the fueltank that they're attached to which is the connected to the RCS tank above. The fuel tank is also attached to a strut which is then connected to the main pillar in the middle.

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