Incremental payouts on contracts, or nothing till all conditions met?

[Kerba Fett]

I've got contracts to explore the Mun, Minmus, and am considering Duna. They list payout ammounts in cash, reputation, and sometimes science for making orbit, transmitting data from orbit, landing, and transmitting data from the surface.

Do you get paid as you complete each condition or not until you complete them all?

Most of the contracts for testing parts only list the completion payout and are pretty straightforward, but this is a little ambiguous.

Edited July 19, 2014 by Kerba Fett

[G'th]

They should pay out as you complete them.

[RSwordsman]

I sort of wish there were partial payment, because unless I just suck, some of the requirements are really strict. Having to test a part at specific speeds and altitudes was pretty tough for me on like level 2 of the tech tree.

[Kryxal]

Here's something that might help for the engines ... use them without staging them till you meet the conditions.

[Kerba Fett]

Thanks for the info on the payouts. That should make the Duna mission easier.

RSwordman, if you find you're going too fast when your reach the target altitude, try completing it on the way down. After you launch make a new stage above your engine and drag the engine there. When you hit your target altitude hit X to cut your throttle. You'll keep going up till all your vertical speed bleeds off then start to fall. As you pass through your target altitude hopefully your speed has increased enough that it's also in the target range and you can hit space to stage the engine again and complete the contract.