kerman die after 14000m

[matute030]

i dont have a clue how my kerman are dying on the 14000m mark any way i could stop this? maybe i can change the code? 'how ?

[Vanamonde]

What? How? Are you using any mods? We need more information to diagnose the problem.

[Chrisd857]

Can we see pictures of your craft? Are they just dying? Is the ship exploding?

Please, more details.

[Taki117]

If you are getting reentry effects at launch you are going too fast.

[kahlzun]

Perhaps he means 14,000 million kerbals have died (total)? When will the carnage end?

[SRV Ron]

Without a picture, I can only guess that at 14,000 meters, the rocket is suffering compression failure as in the three examples below.

Bracing and reducing the stress of too much acceleration is the cure. Too much acceleration, as boosters use up their fuel, will place so much stress on decouplers as to twist off from them. Check your flight report for a clue as to what is failing that causes the crash.

[arq]

Are you using Deadly Reentry? In that mod, if your Kerbals are exposed to too much force for too long, it will kill them.

[Mustanger]

Yea the only mod that would cause this is the Deadly Reentry mod. In the pictures it looks like you're gravity turn is too shallow (only about 80 degrees above horizon). To avoid this destruction try starting a gravity turn at around the 10km mark keeping your heading at about 30-45 degrees above the horizon. Then once your Ap is about 10km higher than your current altitude lower your heading to about 10 degrees above the horizon.

[Hodo]

890m/s is almost mach 3 at less than 15km is nearly suicide in DRE.

[Superfish57]

That's not his picture guys. It was an example of compression failure by SRV Ron.

[SRV Ron]

That's not his picture guys. It was an example of compression failure by SRV Ron.

There were no Kerbals harmed in those tests. A set of braces allowed that inefficient flight to succeed and subjected the payload to 15G+ acceleration before burnout.