When this happens to you how fast are you moving and how high are you?Ĭan't help you much, as I am a rank beginner. The part I don't understand is that chutes shouldn't open if you're going too fast. New users with no filters get tripped up, and the experienced users can't understand why it happens. Hidden assumptions are very hard to uncover, because most experienced users no longer see them - they are just part of the background. I've taught engineering and other skills for over 50 years, and this is a constant problem - tutorials that have hidden assumptions, and tutorial creators that never actually use their own products. The only clue that things might be different in the 'real' program is that the max altitude in the 'real' game is much higher than that shown in the tutorials, so I suspect Manley the other tutorial creators either modified the fuel loads and forgot to show that step, or were working with an earlier version with a smaller initial fuel load.

I was following the tutorial to the letter, but still getting 100% parachute failures - go figure. However, from a newbie's perspective, it is very frustrating that all the tutorials show the basic configuration going straight up and straight down, with no trajectory modifications at all. I'm sure that modifying the ascent trajectory would work as well. I'm now experimenting with higher fuel loads to see if I can get the parachute to survive even with a full fuel load. So, I reduced them both to about 1/2 scale, and now the rocket assembly tops out MUCH lower, and the parachute now works every time - YAY!! Turns out that although you can't throttle a 'Flea' booster, you CAN reduce the starting fuel amount and the thrust available. However, I saw a post talking about 'monopropellant' on the command module, and reduced that to zero - that didn't help either, but it got me thinking, and I looked at the options for the 'Flea' solid booster. I have been doing the simplest possible configuration in the 'Contract's track - a command module, a 'Flea' solid-rocket booster, and a MK16 parachute. This rocket has no scientific instruments, but it would work to add some instuments and a communications device.I'm a brand-new KSP player, and I have been beating my head against the problem of the MK16 parachute always getting 'destroyed by aerodynamic forces' on the way down, no matter what I did, just like many other newbies on this forum. The Second stage, or 'service module' has up to 800 units of charge, and landing legs if you are crazy enough to attempt a Mun landing. At sea level, the parachute slows the X down to about seven meters per second, which is easily survivable. Once back on a sub-orbital trajectory, the capsule can survive a reentry, but the parachute can not be deployed until you are at about 800 meters per second, or else it will burn up. The command module is capable of holding up to three kerbonauts. This puts the ship in orbit, and from a low orbit can take the ship to the Mun. Once the core stage is out of fuel, the second stage takes over. The boosters gradually fall away as they burn out. The Kerbal X consists of a core stage, with eight boosters. It is used in the 'Flight Basics' tutorial, and is capable of orbit and even the Mun.

Kerbal space program parachute burns up