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[seyMonsters]

A Very Basic Space Program | Episode 135 | KSP RSS/RO/RP-1

 

On 7/27/2023 at 12:59 PM, jimmymcgoochie said:

 

Why did you send the second rover at 110km instead of just repeating what the first one did?

That will forever remain a mystery to all of us…. I think in my head I was thinking something but im guessing I started over thinking after the parachute issue !

[jimmymcgoochie]

That was a completely legitimate cheat-complete, those contracts are pretty glitchy- I once had a Moon base contract fail because it decided my Moon station was the “base” and wanted me to land that instead- and you did everything it asked you to do.

Scatterer/EVE disappearing isn’t uncommon either, I’ve had it happen lots of times but a quick save/reload often fixes it.

[seyMonsters]

A Very Basic Space Program | Episode 136 | KSP RSS/RO/RP-1

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Fun fact, the signal strength meter shows data speed in bits per second (bps), but Kerbalism shows data speed in bytes per second (B/s) and since there are 8 bits in a byte your 80kbps signal to the lunar relay would be at best 10kB/s, nowhere near the ~30kB/s required for that orbital imaging experiment. What you’re seeing is a relatively low-speed S-band signal bouncing off the lunar relay which isn’t going to have the bandwidth to send all that data. Dedicated S-,  X- or K/Ka-band relays in medium Earth orbit are required to get the data transmitted.

That rover was never going to land like that- maybe if you had deployed the ramps to act as airbrakes and tried to use a lifting re-entry to slow down more before you got too low it might have worked, or if you had drogue chutes to slow it subsonic before the main chutes deployed.

[seyMonsters]

A Very Basic Space Program | Episode 137 | KSP RSS/RO/RP-1

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Trying to balance on a hill by putting the magnetometer UP the hill will never work, the mass is all in the base and not the boom; put it DOWN the hill so it props it up.