Met conditions for surface scanner. Still not working.

[Soto_Black]

I decided to scan the moon. So I established a polar orbit at the requested range and still indicated that I needed to be in a "Stable polar orbit" before I can scan. I even changed directions of my orbit and still did not work.

How do you scan a planet?

[Ember]

I've only ever used the scanner on Kerbin, so I can't say if there is something weird about using it on the Mun. Posting a screenshot of your orbit would help with the troubleshooting though.

[Just Jim]

Hmmmm, it should work. Are you within the min/max altitudes?
I launched three survey satellites yesterday, one each for Kerban, the Mun, and Mimnus, and all three are working fine.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444318308

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444318578

I didn't have much of a problem getting them into a polar orbit. My biggest issue was making sure they have enough batteries. You can see I have 6 of them stacked up, both for power, and to get my scanner and antenna far enough away from my solar panels to deploy properly. The scanner is a major power hog, I wouldn't put one into orbit without at least 1200 or more battery power, and at least two of the big solar panels to keep them charged.

[Soto_Black]

Originally posted by just_jim:

Hmmmm, it should work. Are you within the min/max altitudes?
I launched three survey satellites yesterday, one each for Kerban, the Mun, and Mimnus, and all three are working fine.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444318308

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444318578

I didn't have much of a problem getting them into a polar orbit. My biggest issue was making sure they have enough batteries. You can see I have 6 of them stacked up, both for power, and to get my scanner and antenna far enough away from my solar panels to deploy properly. The scanner is a major power hog, I wouldn't put one into orbit without at least 1200 or more battery power, and at least two of the big solar panels to keep them charged.

That is so frustrating. That looks exactly like what I did. My apoapsis and periapsis are both within the range required.

I even attempted a second one just over Kerbin. Same result. Got into a polar orbit within the required range, and it still gave me the same error.

[Kirsty]

I had a similar issue and resolved this by saving then shutting down KSP and restarting then it registered some things glitch out and restarts seem to fix it.

[Just Jim]

Wow, that is weird... I'm not sure what other requirements it may have, other than polar orbit, right altitude, and enough juice to transmit data back. Oh wait, they also have to have a standard antenna to send back data.... you do have an antenna???