Super strong reforced solar panels

[thunderstar]

so yeah, after i completed my first space station, i really wanted to deorbit it and watch it burn and get torn apart by the atmospheric forces

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what are those panels made from! i want a 1000!

i know this is not impressive compared to all thos beautiful things you guys do, but i just wanted to share it with you C:

[Randox]

Meanwhile, my testing rover is ripping it's 2x3 panels off at...10 m/s or so

Maybe the big ones are a lot stronger, I don't think I have ever had them out in atmo. I've tried deploying the 1x6 and 2x3 panels before as impromptu air brakes with predictable results.

[magnemoe]

Its an moded solar panel who is super strong or perhaps the creator just forgot to make it fragile.

An you are right 10 m/s breaks solar pannels in atmosphere so you need to use the flat ones and only use the extendable if you stop.

[ouion]

No, I experience that too and it isn't Modded.

[thunderstar]

lol no, exactly the opposite of what you said happened, the modded ones were the only ones that came off, but the stock for some strange reason dind't even get a scratch

[stupid_chris]

There's not only modded panels on that station though. Are you using FAR?

[Lazro]

Simple-from what I can see, the panels were coming through along the narrow dimension. If you fly solar panels through an atmosphere parallel to the axis along which they open, the game simply ignores it and lets it pass through unscathed. In other words, the solar panels are very strong as long as you don't push on them sideways very far.

[Captain Sierra]

And yet when I try this on my ion powered rover, even at high noon when the solar panels aim straight up and I drive forward, narrow edge facing the wind, instant breakage at like 8m/s. The game is horribly inconsistent with solar panel destruction. You barely tap it with a kerbal. Does it flex or scratch? no! it instantly disintegrates!