Renaming and Redesignating "Dead" Vehicles/Satellites

[Diche Bach]

Ability to rename and redesignate objects even when their batteries are dead.

For example, I have a Stayputnik satellite with flat batteries that I can neither rename nor reset as debris. It shows up in my "active flights" list and I have no way to reset it to debris and it is completely dead.

Seems like it is probably a fairly small tweak in the application, but down the road in Campaign mode the inability to redesignate objects with flat batteries into debris could prove to be bothersome.

[Tw1]

This would be so useful.

[Hashbrown66]

I second this. It should be the space center's computer database that is keeping track of all the names, not the individual ships' computers.

[NGTOne]

Completely in agreement. I can't remember the number of times I've had to send someone back to my junk station after evacuating it to rename it. I once had to make a 10km EVA jump in low Jool orbit to do just that after my science station was destroyed by a physics glitch.

[chaos_forge]

Yes, this would be so helpful. Maybe even just rename any mission from the Tracking Center

[Zeroignite]

I'll sign this as well.

[King Arthur]

As a workaround, you can go into your save file with a text editor like Notepad and change a vessel's name and designation rather easily. Seeing an option for this in the tracking station would be nice though!

[Vostok]

I suggested this a while ago, and it would be totally useful. +1 from me, and if the developers are listening, add this!

[Sacheverell]

Definitely on-board with this suggestion.

[tntristan12]

Right. I don't see any reason why renaming something would require electricity anyway! In the mean time, you can always rename it in the save file.

P.S. renaming things from the map menu would also be very useful.

[Rhyunix]

I tenth this, being able to even rename it to just "dead probe" or "crashed rover" would be great. Even better would be if you could set locations such as "crashed rover" to "rover crash on ..... crater" (implying you would name the geographical location