max. craft recovery range?

[Umlüx]

anyone ever tested or know how far away from KSC a craft can land and still be able to be recovered?

as of yet i managed to land within sight of KSC everytime, but there sure is a maximum range?

thanks!

Edited October 17, 2013 by Umlüx

[TheBedla]

I am quite sure the recovery button works on every craft that is on Kerbin. In .22 I recovered a craft from the desert on the continent west of KSC, and in .21 (where the recovery function was implemented already), I recovered

[NWCtim]

As long as you are somewhere on the surface of Kerbin, your craft can be recovered.

[stringyquark]

I believe it just has to land (or splash down) on kerbin to be recoverable.

Part of the space programs without boarders project.

[Umlüx]

is that so? that would be too easy?

but who am i to complain

[Garek]

In my opinion, a maximum recovery range would add too much unnessecary difficulty for people like me. I struggle to build a plane that just gets off the ground without crashing, building one to bring a craft back to the KSC is way out of my capabilities. And my precision landings...well not really there yet, especially through atmosphere. What I expect once there is currency in career mode is recovery to get more expensive/less usefull/etc. the further the craft landed from the KSC, as a soft incentive to improve your landings.