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Parachutes, Staging, And What The Heck Happened There?


Scarecrow71

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As part of the Duna Mastery Challenge, I put a rover on Duna today.  The rover had to land successfully, and be drivable, both of which happened.  To get to the surface, I packed 1 MK-16 and 4 Radial Drogue Chutes.  And when I fired them during descent...see the image.

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So, where are my chutes?  They simply aren't there.  I'm only 6800 meters above the surface, and I'm traveling at 118 m/s, which is not fast enough to shear them off.  Also, I thought there were no atmospheric effects in the game yet, so they shouldn't have even been torn off by that anyhow.  And yet, I have no chutes.  And there are 2 more really interesting things with the chutes here:

  1. I was able to repack them.  That's right - no Engineer/Kerbal anywhere near the thing, and yet I could repack the chutes.  In flight, on the ground...anywhere I wanted, I could repack them.  Not that it did any good; repacking and refiring only gave me no chutes again.
  2. Take a look at the staging on the right side.  What is up with the long black bar for the chutes there?  And this bar doesn't go away; it stays there on this craft no matter what I do with it, and it shows up empty on any other craft I'm working on until I go into the VAB and then load and delete a craft.

One last thing, which may or may not be my fault, is that the brakes don't work.  Hitting B?  Nothing.  Adding Activate/Deactivate brakes on all 4 wheels to an action group?  Nothing.  Mashing the keyboard?  Nope, this thing rolls of its own free will once you get it moving.

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