My bad luck mission to KSC

[STSJASON]

Ok I was flying to KSC from habana once I got in to suborbit I ran out of rcs fuel (I only had a qurter tank because I accidentily pressed the dump rcs fuel)then I was only 43.12Km so I used the atmospheric mode it work a little but I was in reentry then my speed brake failed and I was going to fast to land but I took the risk and was trying to land once my landing gear were down I landed but hit the ground at 15m/s and it injurd the crew I ejected but the pilot's chute didn't open.And that was a bad luck mission to KSC.:rofl:

 

[cjp]

Which vehicle? Wasn't there a button from transferring fuel from the main tank to the RCS?

Did you make it to a runway, or did you have to land "in the trees"? (I know there are no trees in Orbiter, but in real life there could be trees anywhere except on the runway)

 

[STSJASON]

I was useing the Dgiv,I don't know if thair was a button for that,and I landed on the runway

 

[pandadude]

I was useing the Dgiv,I don't know if thair was a button for that,and I landed on the runway

There is a button on the lower panel to move fuel from main engines to RCS. Also if you landed on the runway, how would RCS fuel help you land at a lower vertical speed?
Doesn't RCS work less at lower altitudes and elevon work more effectively?

 

[Woo482]

at low speeds rcs works good (at about 100 ms it works)

 

[astrosammy]

I remember loosing all my RCS fuel on a suborbital flight with a XR-1 (I launched with a pitch of 85° to an Apogee of 150 km). It's impossible to keep a good AOA without RCS while doing a nearly vertical reentry, so I lost my control surfaces after the most critical point of the reentry (50km - 30 km). But I managed to get the vertical speed low and opened all doors to eject.