Stuck with situation "landed" after landing - will not change after take off

[Bonekrusher]

Hi guys!

I'm a newby and a google search didn't return any answers so here it goes:

I put a lander on the Mun and now when I take off no orbit comes up - I can get over 300,000km away from the surface but on the info pane it still says my ship is "landed" and will never give me the little orbit circle. It won't let me speed up time either, every time I try it says I can't do that while moving over the surface, even though I'm 300k+ km away from said surface. I've restarted several times and I am not using any addons at all. Can anyone help me? Is there something I can do in the console to change my status from landed to something else?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Sounds like a bug to me. TO THE BUG SUBFORUM!

[Starwaster]

stupid question but are you doing a circularization burn at apoapsis? (I've done Mun orbits as low as 8km and you can go even lower than that as long as you don't hit any hills)

[Bonekrusher]

Yes I am making my orbit circular at around 10,000 Km - then I just did periapsis burn until I got within around 5k KM - then took my horizontal speed down and landed.

I know my method probably sucks but the landing was soft enough that I don't think it damaged the craft in any way. I'm also landed on a hill if that makes a difference.

[blizzy78]

Get into orbit, then edit the vessel in the save file by changing the following to:

sit = ORBITING
landed = False
landedAt = 
splashed = False

This should fix it.

Do a backup of your save file first!

[Bonekrusher]

Get into orbit, then edit the vessel in the save file by changing the following to:

Do a backup of your save file first!

Thanks a bunch dude!

[Mr. Rogue Ace]

had the same problem with rovers