Bug #1171
Inactive craft not affected by atmosperic drag
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Description
When launching a craft I boosted til my apoapsis reached the desired level (beyond kerbian atmosphere, 141km) During my burn to circularize my orbit, my new periapsis was around 35km, when I jettisoned a spent stage and continued my burn. Later on after MECO I saw my spent booster stage was in orbit with a periapsis of 35km, well inside the Kerbian atmosphere.
after a few orbits i noticed neither the spent stage's apoapsis, nor periapsis changed as far as I could see. It was not affected by atmospheric drag.
After i jettisoned the booster i never "took control" of the booster and it remained inactive
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History
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Updated by hermes47 over 10 years ago
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- Status changed from New to Not a Bug
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
This isn't a bug. When a vessel isn't in focus it's placed on rails and physics are not run on said vessel. This includes drag effects. As such, there is no orbital decay for unfocussed vessels.