deployed science not transmitting

[miklkit]

I've got a new problem as the title says.  I set up a science base on Eeloo that has deployed science that is making science but is not transmitting it.  There is a relay satellite that has a good enough connection to Kerbin.  I have had a scientist reset them 4 times now and they still will not transmit science, and am out of ideas.  They have been reset at different times in order to get their transmission times to happen when the satellite is in range, but still nothing.  This setup has worked before everywhere from the Mun to Moho. 

[nrum7366]

No idea if you are still hoping for a reply, I found this on my playthroughs. if you are referring to the stock breaking ground science. 

I knew I had the right ratio of solar panels to power what I needed, a control box and antenna. when I was setting up I was watching the science points to see if it was transmitting and it wasn't, I gave up and left and discovered it was actually transmitting, it could of been a bug. I read this post below and discovered that it sends out bursts of Transmissons rather than constant signal. 

Also suggestion as the deployed antenna range is limited. put a relay satellite in geostationary orbit (permanently above) then the transmit rate far higher. 

Another suggestion - leave a rover next to it and use that as a relay too. So from antenna > rover > satellite relay > Kerbin.  add more satellites with data antennas to speed the rate up massively.

wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Deployable_Science

[nrum7366]

I have discovered that you need to deploy in order. 

You need to place Science first, then antenna, then control box, then solar panels.  

 

[miklkit]

Really?  I deployed the control box first, then the power with an engineer.  Then the science with a scientist.  Actually I have no set way to deploy stuff and that time I chose the engineer first.  Will have to redeploy and see what happens. 

[nrum7366]

wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Deployable_Science

it explains it here, not sure how old this is, but when I was doing the same why you did it in the tracking station it was showing each item placed as a different ship

[miklkit]

It seems the deployed science tried to send science when no satellite was in range as it has sent 10% instead of 100%.

[Crazy Diamond]

I have found two situations that prevent data collected by a deployed science instrument (Ionographer PD-22, Go-ob ED Monitor, etc.) from being transmitted back to Kerbin even when a good communication link from the Probodobodyne Experiment Control Station to Kerbin, optionally through a relay, is available. If either one or both of these conditions exist, then the science completed by the instrument(s) will not be transmitted. While the problems are likely due to programming logic errors, workarounds are available as detailed below.

I have observed that the science collected by a deployed science instrument is transmitted at about 28-day intervals provided the equipment is powered and enabled, additional science has been collected, and a communications link is available. If there is no communications link at the time a transmission is attempted at the end of the next interval, a message communicating the failure is posted for each instrument, the key noCommNetMsgPosted in the corresponding SCIENCECLUSTER.MANNEDSCIENCEPARTS.MANNEDSCIENCEPART.EXPERIMENT section of the Persistent.sfs or other save file is updated with the value "True",  and no further transmission attempts are ever made even if the comm link is restored before the next interval. To fix this problem, reset noCommNetMsgPosted = False for all affected instruments in the save file.

Even with transmissions suspended after losing a comm link, deployed instruments will continue to collect science until they reach 100% of the science limit. When that happens, editing the noCommNetMsgPosted key value is still necessary but is not sufficient to fix the problem because there is no new science to be collected which is needed to trigger a transmission attempt. So, in addition to setting noCommNetMsgPosted = False in the save file, you must also reduce TotalScienceGenerated to a value below ScienceLimit found in the same EXPERIMENT sub-section so that new science may be completed to trigger a transmission attempt. You should also reduce StoredScienceData by the same percentage. (StoredScienceData was 12 times smaller than TotalScienceGenerated in my save file.) Next, you must also reset Enabled = True in the MANNEDSCIENCEPART section for each affected instrument. You may also want to verify that isEnabled = True in the instrument's VESSEL.PART.MODULE section found later in the save file. Searching for the MANNEDSCIENCE PartID will help you locate the vessel part having the matching persistentId.

After editing and saving the save file, reload the file in Kerbal Space Program. Expect up to 28 game days to elapse before receiving a message stating successful science data transmission provided a good communication link is available at the moment the transmission is attempted.

[jimmymcgoochie]

Have you tried sending a new crew to pick them up and redeploy them? That might fix it?

(The old TIO-TIBO solution )

[miklkit]

Editing?  ugh.  There is so much science available that I just left it there and never bothered with it again.