Satellite maintenance?

[JeV]

I've been doing the satellite contracts and I want my kerbin to be nice and clean. So when I finish my contract i get the satellite down to kerbin to refund and minimize useless orbits.

But then I thought.. This probably isn't how I was supposed to deal with my satellites. So wouldn't it be cool that you can launch satellites and get a (mayb lower) completion bonus and get paid for every hour/year/minute in game while maintaining the right orbits? Would make sense. You could stack up on income and it would pay off to leave them in orbit.

You could also add contracts where you have to change orbit or destroy / remove satellites

[Stengord]

Would be nice but normally when they want to 'dispose' of satellites they boost them to a 'Graveyard orbit' that is above Geosynchronous and leave them all to die...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit

[Jansn]

This contracts are imho senseless (without any sidestory or background).

Maybe they can be training missions for target orbiting "something".. ?

I expected maintenance- or extend-missions for that satellites, or maybe

kind of gps/remote tech-functionality. but such contracts they never came up.

I never take such contract anymore..

[KerbMav]

Due to time warp anything available over time will not be implemented (in the stock game).

The Harvester has spoken.

I do not know if they can be selected for random maintenance missions by that mod whose name eludes me right now.

Edited December 23, 2014 by KerbMav

[RW-1]

Did you read the blurb in the wiki about the success rate in those transfer's? Id say the operators should try for a slightly shortened lifetime and de-orbit them, plain and simple.

We don't need another level of junk flying above GS IMHO.

[Oafman]

If you use Remotetech then your contract satellites, with a few antennae attached, can become communications satellites, and do not need to be immediately deorbited.

Just leave a bit of dV in them to move them from the contract orbit into your desired comms orbit, and you've killed 2 birds with one hi-tech stone...

[Redjoker]

Don't immediately deorbit them! Most of the contracts require a science tool to be on the satellite, this means that later they can be a free science from space around kerbin contract,

[aman608]

Don't immediately deorbit them! Most of the contracts require a science tool to be on the satellite, this means that later they can be a free science from space around kerbin contract,

Why did i never think of that! That's a great idea.