Sensor nose cone gives no science?

[iVG]

Anyone else tried it? Unlocked it last night but just started messing with it. I designed a craft, but the nose cone in front and straight to the runway... Clicked the measurement button and it says '140 science from KSP runway'. Kept the data. Recovered the craft without flying it only to find that on the recovery screen it says '14 science added' , only 10% of what I should have got.

Another try, flew the craft over the ocean east of KSC, ran the experiment, kept the data, turned around, landed and recovered the craft. Again ONLY 10% for a fully recovered craft.

Third try, put a bunch of batteries, big radio transmitter and solar panels. Ran the previous experiment again. The data appeared as '200 mits'. It takes a while until it's transmitted but as soon as it gets transmitted back to KSC, it shows '0.00' science added from...'. I transmitted up until 100%, came back and landed only to find out that indeed, I got 0.00 science from what should have been at least 250-300.

Any suggestions?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Check the scientific value of the experiment you're performing. It is possible that the experiment you're trying to run is useless on Kerbin, since the air is literally everywhere.

If you ran the same experiment in the atmosphere of Duna, Eve, or Jool, you'd get a whole lot more science.

[HarvesteR]

140 Data. Data isn't the same as science. The aerodynamics nose cone analisys comes out as a pretty large amount of data... think of it as a very large file, the contents of which determine the science that you get out of it, not the filesize itself.

Unless the 'scientific value' field on the review dialog actually does say 140 science, in which case that would be a bug.

Cheers

[iVG]

Nope, it says 140 scientific data, tried both keeping it and transmitting it. Still way less science than what I should have got.

[iVG]

140 Data. Data isn't the same as science. The aerodynamics nose cone analisys comes out as a pretty large amount of data... think of it as a very large file, the contents of which determine the science that you get out of it, not the filesize itself.

Unless the 'scientific value' field on the review dialog actually does say 140 science, in which case that would be a bug.

Cheers

It says '140 science' and '200 mits'

[iVG]

Please, Harvester, check this out. I'd like to know if it's a bug (which I can live with) or my incompetence (which I can't )

[Hadza]

Have the same problem here. Seems that every experiment started to yield horribly less science than it should . I've sent a ship to orbit Kerbol and when it reached it ran a gravity scan. Scans revealed a total output of 660 science points with 60% transmission efficiency and 120 (can't remember the exact number) mits of data. After transmitting the data I got 36 science (or even 12.4, maybe it was an another experiment). Also not only scientific output seems to be decreased, but also data transmitted. After executing transmission the data transmitted in report was 36 points instead of 60. At first I thought it depends on the antennae type\stupidity\distance but neither of them affects it because even recovery gives the same low result as that. Now I kinda feel stuck with all those 550 pts researches

[Hadza]

Also if you run a nose cone in vacuum it does not respond. Not even with mesage of impossibility of experiment like other sensors do.