Orbit around the sun / flyby the sun achievement or contracts?

[magnemoe]

What is I missing here? I left Kerbin SOI, I was not on an escape trajectory so why was I not in orbit around the sun? This has happened multiple times now while other has the orbit around the sun achievement. I have an tourist who has gotten fly by but not orbit.

Only thing I can think about is that you must be in an orbit who does not intercept Kerbin SOI who I expect is plausible? 

[modus]

Were you trying to fullfill a contract? Maybe your vessel has to be a probe but isn't? Or maybe the orbit has certain (extra) requirements?

[magnemoe]

1 hour ago, modus said:

Were you trying to fullfill a contract? Maybe your vessel has to be a probe but isn't? Or maybe the orbit has certain (extra) requirements?

No this is kerbal experience and tourist contract, one kerbal asking for flyby and orbit of the sun and just got flyby. Wondered if other ran into this. 
Will try to look into it now.

[Beamer]

I did experience the same and found some post on Steam that mentioned you only get Solar orbit experience when your orbit after leaving Kerbin SOI doesn't enter the SOI of any planet (not just Kerbin). If it does, Solar fly-by is all you get. In my experience, this is correct.

While flying tourists to Duna and encountering this I did some tests and found that even if I changed my orbit after leaving Kerbin SOI so that it didn't intersect Duna SOI anymore, it still didn't give my tourists/kerbonauts the Solar orbit XP, which I found a bit odd. Based on this I would guess that the only check that happens is when your SOI changes from planetary to solar, and if at that point your orbit is intersecting the SOI of another planet you will not get the XP for Solar orbit until you leave (and thus first enter) a planetary SOI again.

 

[magnemoe]

22 hours ago, Beamer said:

I did experience the same and found some post on Steam that mentioned you only get Solar orbit experience when your orbit after leaving Kerbin SOI doesn't enter the SOI of any planet (not just Kerbin). If it does, Solar fly-by is all you get. In my experience, this is correct.

While flying tourists to Duna and encountering this I did some tests and found that even if I changed my orbit after leaving Kerbin SOI so that it didn't intersect Duna SOI anymore, it still didn't give my tourists/kerbonauts the Solar orbit XP, which I found a bit odd. Based on this I would guess that the only check that happens is when your SOI changes from planetary to solar, and if at that point your orbit is intersecting the SOI of another planet you will not get the XP for Solar orbit until you leave (and thus first enter) a planetary SOI again.

 

This make sense, I guess I had an Eve intercept here, not run into it later so rare, but remember an Jool mission but that was going so fast it was on solar escape velocity. Jool in an year  

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