klawed to asteroid, but cannot mine it

[HowlingMad]

Hello everyone,

 

I accepted a contract to bring back a class D asteroid back to Kerbin. I managed to klaw to it and put it on orbit of Kerbin, the burn took me a few hours because I was not mining the asteroid quickly enough to provide continuous fuel to the engine.

I exited the game and returned later on the ship to find that the klaw was at a distance of a few meters from the asteroid and the drill could not reach the surface of the asteroid and was unable to mine it. I am now left with a ship "klawed" with my asteroid which I cannot mine and not enough fuel to move it around.

If i try to unklaw and reklaw to the real surface, I have a message from the agency stating that the asteroid has already been touched and I am afraid the asteroid would not qualify for the contract anymore.

 

Did this behaviour happened to anyone ? How did you solved it ?

 

Thanks.

[Draalo]

Asteroids have a limited amount of ore - you may have run out of it...

 

Pictures?

[HowlingMad]

24 minutes ago, Draalo said:

Asteroids have a limited amount of ore - you may have run out of it...

 

Pictures?

https://imgur.com/a/U2fF7

When i click Start asteroid harvester it stops right away

[bewing]

In the current version, there's a bug that asteroids change shape every time you leave the scene and return to it. If you just switch away and switch back a few times, your drills should be in range of the surface.