Why is the materials bay locked?

[nhnifong]

I want to get the upper atmosphere reading but the materials bay is locked. Why? How do I unlock it?

Edited December 13, 2013 by nhnifong

[Sirine]

Perhaps....antenna?

[astropapi1]

okayyyy.

[nhnifong]

Well, I landed (still didn't work), went to the space center and came back and then it started working.

[capi3101]

There are some science parts that cannot be used in certain areas (try taking a pressure reading in space any time). This could be an extension of that, or it could be a genuine bug; I've never tried to do an upper atmospheric reading with a materials bay myself, so I couldn't tell you either/or without getting into the game itself (which probably won't happen for at least another eighteen hours). Hopefully somebody around here can be of more help.

[Murph]

Perhaps....antenna?

Nope, as far as I'm aware, all science should work without any antenna, just can't be transmitted, and must be kept on the ship and landed back on Kerbin. Obviously, there are significant advantages to having an antenna, of course.

[FlamedSteak]

I've never failed to open the materials bay, and I've put it in every situation I can think of.

That along with the goo should work everywhere as far as I know.

[Sirrobert]

http://i.imgur.com/BTRuPuF.png

okayyyy.

Temprature scan can only be done close to a body, or on a body. Same with atmosphere readings obviously

[Taki117]

The science bay being locked is probably a bug, however to get around it (And save yourself some trouble) while in the VAB (or SPH if that's your fancy) you could set all of your science-y stuff to one action group, then whenever you want to do science just use that action group to do all your science at once, no need to right click anything.

[edemlama]

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem after I updated to V.23, my science was working just fine until I updated.

My material bay is locked and if I try to click on the mystery goo no dialogue window pops up.

I tried with action groups but still nothing happens

Can someone help? How did you fix this issue?

I looked online but it seems I'm the only one having this problem.

I'm running KSP V.23 on a Macbook Pro 2.5GHz core i7 with 16gb RAM and OS X 10.9

Please Help

[edemlama]

I think I got it, there must be one of the mod that I'm using that creates some sort of conflict.

I'm going to add them one by one until I find the one that creates the problem.

[Mr.Rocket]

With the new update, you can only use the material bay and mystery goo once. After that, they will become locked if you transmit. So, if you have already used them, you can't use them again.

[Stonc024]

This appears to still be a bug. One I transmitted my jr science bay, neither it or mystery go will collect science above 70km, both locked.

[overkill13]

1 hour ago, Stonc024 said:

This appears to still be a bug. One I transmitted my jr science bay, neither it or mystery go will collect science above 70km, both locked.

This isn't a bug, this is intended behavior.  In order to reuse a Science Jr or Mystery Goo you need to reset them with a scientist on EVA.  The observe option will disappear until those particular experiments are reset.

Unless you are getting an actual "locked" status as in the OP.  That is not normal.

Edited December 24, 2018 by overkill13

[Stonc024]

24 minutes ago, overkill13 said:

This isn't a bug, this is intended behavior.  In order to reuse a Science Jr or Mystery Goo you need to reset them with a scientist on EVA.  The observe option will disappear until those particular experiments are reset.

Unless you are getting an actual "locked" status as in the OP.  That is not normal.

Ah, yes thank you, you are correct I just saw that now on the Wikipedia page. Much appreciated! What is the "O.P."? Merry Christmas!

Edited December 24, 2018 by Stonc024

[overkill13]

3 hours ago, Stonc024 said:

Ah, yes thank you, you are correct I just saw that now on the Wikipedia page. Much appreciated! What is the "O.P."? Merry Christmas!

OP is usually forum speak for original post or poster.  In the OP here the image actually shows "locked".  Not sure if that was a bug or normal behavior in 2013 but not normal now.