Bug #20426
Unexplained orbital drift of one or more vessels in a constellation
Status:
New
Severity:
Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Physics
Target version:
-
Start date:
11/19/2018
% Done:
0%
Language:
English (US)
Mod Related:
No
Votes:
Description
I try to find simple words:
- I launch a sat-deployer vessel, so a rocket that carries multiple relay satellites
- I go into resonant orbit and deploy them all
- One after the other I bring them to final orbit
- Afterwards they're nicely distributed around the celestial body, like 4 relay satellites are seperated by 90°
- Later, after doing other stuff, launching other vessels etc. pp. - at least one of them moved around and is next to another one of the same "group"
- they all had the same parameters, like apogee, perigee, inclination, surface speed ... so they should stay stable for a very long time
- but just after a few ingame weeks or even days this issue occurs
- it's not that the "special" vessel continues moving in a different orbit - it just stays where it is after the "jump", relatively spoken
- so it "jumped" around the plane and settled down next to a brother for no reason
Imho this has to do with the fact that "once" all the deployed vessels were in the same physics range.
A screenshot:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/457294487677435904/514120405447868445/screenshot_2018-11-19--17-50-09.png
In this case even 2 of the 4 relay sats are displaced.
Reproduce?
Set a constellation, do other stuff, do several scene changes and check then and when.