unable to scan this planet???

Jobabor · Jul 17, 2015

This planet would not scan regardless of how close I got to it. It was also moving along it's orbit path noticeably fast.

All the other objects in the system scanned normal and have not encountered this before or since.

Cmdr Daita

Gut Rumble · Jul 17, 2015

Is the scanner turned on

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I have accidently turned it off before

Jobabor · Jul 17, 2015

Gut Rumble said:
Is the scanner turned on
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I have accidently turned it off before

yes it was on. I had just scanned another in system planet moments before and another right after.

iain666 · Jul 17, 2015

Sounds like a bug then.

drkaii · Jul 17, 2015

Where is it?

Jobabor · Jul 17, 2015

drkaii said:
Where is it?

Praea somewhere. didnt get the location from the screenshot because it didnt scan

drkaii · Jul 17, 2015

Oh ok. If it was nearby I would have gone to check it myself

tiger61378 · Jul 17, 2015

I had something similar last night...was trying to scan out some asteroids (yeah, worthless, but that "unexplored" on the system list just annoys me sometimes) and nearly ended up in the asteroid belt a few times, but the scanner never triggered. And yeah, my scanner was on, it just wasn't triggering for some reason.

jimglot · Jul 17, 2015

I had one that would not scan last trip out. I flew around and scanned some others and when I came back, it scanned.

trollson · Jul 17, 2015

I have encountered an issue scanning asteroid clusters (completist!), although not recently.

This mostly occured in belts around remote companion stars. I found that they _could_ be scanned, but the "sweet-spot" where the scanner triggers was offset from where the lenticular indicated the cluster should be. The offset was in 3D - so flying around would sometimes appear to cure the issue if the offset and lenticular happened to end up in the same direction.

Interesting comment about the planet being in a high velocity orbit... That could also be the case for near-star asteriods where this issue manifested for me.