Bug #514
Inverted "Inclination" on SOI changeover
100%
Description
Steps to Reproduce:
Mac OS/X Snow Leopard
KSP 0.18.4
Mods installed: RemoteTech, Kerbal Engineer, Kerbal Alarm Clock, Ferram Aerospace
I launched a vessel to a prograde (heading: 90) low Kerbin orbit, then plotted a burn to put in on a Kerbin escape velocity. I plotted the burn via the Maneuver Nodes.
The burn initiated at a little past midnight local time (dark side of Kerbin, opposite the Sun).
I extended my apoapsis until it was just past the edge of Kerbin's SOI, so that at the SOI change-over my vessel had a prograde Kerbin orbit, but a fair amount of "backwards" momentum relative to Kerbin's orbit around the Sun. I did most of my plotting while zoomed a long way out to watch the resulting Solar orbit.
Then I went about my business doing other things - the save-file has about 30 active flights. When the Kerbal Alarm Clock "dinged" for the SOI change, I happened to be at 1x Warp and involved in docking manned craft elsewhere, so I ignored the "ding" and finished docking - so the probe performed its SOI change at 1x Warp but not as the "active" craft.
When I checked in on the craft afterwards, it had a retrograde orbit around the Sun - in other words, it was going exactly the opposite direction from Kerbin's orbit.
Checking the persistent.sfs, I found that the orbital INC was 179.899 - by my calculations, it should be +/-0.101 instead.
I have reproduced this with a second orbital craft on a similar orbit - for that one, the Kerbal Alarm Clock add-on "caught" the SOI transition multiple times - I suspect this was because the bug was occurring but the resulting post-transition orbit put it immediately back within Kerbin's SOI.
History
#1 Updated by Amaroq about 11 years ago
If you'd like, I can provide a persistent.sfs from before and after the SOI transition(s), as I do back up my .SFS file pretty regularly.
#2 Updated by hermes47 about 11 years ago
Please upload a persistent.sfs, preferably from a stock install.
#3 Updated by jonnyp over 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Closing as no new information has been supplied in over 12 months