Battaglia asteroid is already scanned and does not grant mission credit
Tracked since 12 Sept 2026 · Last researched 12 Sept 2026
Problem
A Recco Battaglia scan objective can mark a required asteroid as already scanned or previously identified before the mission grants scan credit, leaving the objective stuck.
Ordinary Battaglia scanning contracts were disabled for Alpha 4.10, although current mission data still includes a Battaglia scan tutorial. This page applies only when you have an active Battaglia asteroid-scan objective; it does not mean the ordinary contracts are currently available.
Applies to Alpha 4.10.x LIVE · Current
Current conclusion
No reliable fix is confirmed
No recovery has been confirmed for Alpha 4.10. If you still have a fresh required asteroid, the least disruptive fallback is to stay out of scan and mining modes until its yellow mission marker appears, but Alpha 4.9 players reported both success and failure. Changing shards is another unverified fallback when markers repeatedly fail to appear.
Other options
On a fresh asteroid, wait for the mission marker before scanning
Two Alpha 4.9 players reported progress after staying out of scan mode until the yellow marker appeared, while two others still received no credit. Treat this as a low-risk fallback, not a fix.
Steps
- Identify a required asteroid from range using its signature without completing a focus scan.
- Before closing to 10 km, leave scan and mining modes and do not ping the target cluster.
- Approach within about 1 km and wait for the yellow Scan Asteroid mission markers to appear.
- Only after the markers appear, enter scan mode and focus-scan the marked asteroid.
- If the asteroid is already marked scanned, leave it and repeat the sequence on a fresh required asteroid.
You need an active Battaglia scan objective and a fresh required asteroid; this cannot reset a target that is already marked scanned. Waiting for markers and finding another matching asteroid can take several minutes, and the sequence may still fail.
Try one fresh asteroid on another shard
A current community guide suggests changing to a fresh or lower-load shard when mission markers are delayed, but it does not show this exact recovery succeeding in Alpha 4.10.
Steps
- Stop after scan-objective markers repeatedly fail to appear or every fresh target is immediately marked scanned.
- Return to the menu and join a fresh or lower-load shard.
- Reacquire the applicable Battaglia objective and test one fresh required asteroid without scanning before its mission marker appears.
Use this only after markers repeatedly fail to appear or fresh targets are immediately marked scanned. Leaving the shard can cost unpersisted mission progress and setup time, and the next shard may not behave any better.
What's not worth trying
Do not treat waiting in scan mode as a confirmed method
One current guide says to remain in scan mode while waiting for yellow markers, but it provides no current successful execution and conflicts with Alpha 4.9 reports that scan mode can identify the target too early.
Do not keep rescanning the same already-marked asteroid
Affected Alpha 4.9 players reported that manual, focus, and deep scans on the same already-marked asteroid did not add mission credit.
Boundaries and evidence
Use this page for an active Battaglia objective that does not count an asteroid because it is already marked scanned. A missing Battaglia offer, another mining or scanning mission, or a completed mission missing from Contract Manager history is a different problem.
No inspectable Alpha 4.10 execution confirms this exact failure or any recovery. Every success and failure for the marker-wait sequence comes from uncontrolled Alpha 4.9 player reports, so there is no measurable success rate.
Ordinary Battaglia scanning contracts are disabled for Alpha 4.10, but remaining tutorial or reward-mission scan content is not fully mapped. No public re-enable date or exact Issue Council history was available.
Data sources
RSI Known Issues · RSI · Reddit · Specialist Community