Not sure who this pro is you are referring to, but sweet job. Nice touch with the control surfaces to conrtol the landings. Awesome work mate! 🚀

One thing I like to do with my recoverable boosters is to have a smaller tank at the bottom of the booster which I disable the lf and ox to (not empty it, just make sure those little green arrows turn into red Xs). This has two desireable effects for me. 1; I don't accidentally use up that fuel to push out my Ap, 2: The center of mass on descent is so low that I only need RCS thrusters at the top of the booster (about the same height as the airbrakes), which saves a little weight, and it tends to stabilize boosters down all by itself, even if the airbrakes burn up on reentry. ... I do also use FMRS, so I don't need to worry about getting my second stage to orbit quickly as mentioned here, but that is another story entirely.

Trying to do this on console feels doubly tough due to performance. But with tutorials like this from you and Marcus House, I can at least try to mirror what you all are doing. Great work!

That's really cool! Especially the way you land the booster with winglets, very clever!

its 3:30 AM not sure what i'm doing here I think I may have had too much soda and tea

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Nice one I haven't played KSP in years but this video is lighting up little neurons in my brain

I was waiting for someone to do this tutorial. Thanks!

good vid mark!

Fantastic design!!

This tutorial is amazing, good job. Why does it have to be so underrated?

Well done mate. A little step down from some of those amazing SSTOs, but this is easier to do. You should do more videos like this.

Awesome. 🚀

That is some impressive work there, doing all stock madness. I can barely do it with a ton of mods and FMRS.

neat as always.

Please make more videos they are great!!!

What is that swashbuckling music? I love it!

This was really good. Keep it up :)

P R E T T Y! Also thank you! (Two exclamation marks on one row, because you are worth it.)

when the second stage lights up, you should switch back to the first stage immediately (second stage WILL keep burning as long as it stays in render range), and do the burn back right away. After the boost back, switch back to the second stage, which should still be in range, and still burning. Your boostback will be way more economical that way and you will fall a lot straighter, which helps in making the landing more precise.

Nice!

This is nice

I can't imagine doing this without the Trajectories mod. It should be a part of the base game, like many other mods (I am looking at you, navball docking indicator!). Also, what's the name of the last track that's playing during the landing of the 2nd Stage?

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehehe,Elon Kerman

4:50 ksp aerodynamics: the most rediculous in the world

I get around the time to circularise by going for a very steep launch, boosting to 100km then starting the booster's boost back burn before switching to second stage for more circularising burn. Can usually keep S2 AP far enough away while booster lands.

SAS has never ruined any of my re landings

If you want the full Elon Musk experience, look for the mod "Reusable Rockets" (or something like that), it adds landing legs for boosters and some other parts. Also you should get the mod Hullcam VDS, it adds cameras to the game and there's the Aerocam which you can attach to the end of your booster. I used it when I tried to land and it's a really great mod

Thanks Mark, this vid helped me complete a 240t payload reusable rocket system. (I'm using the new big white tank as target payload) . Do you think using these reusable rockets are viable in career mode, or maybe I should just design a vehicle that will refuel the landed stages before I recover them?

Awesome work mate! Just wondering if you considered adding 'Garden modules' to your domes mod. So, for example, the smallest one being about the size of the mk 2 cockpit and the largest ones just being a model of a tree that must be placed within one of the domes. Just for the nice colony aesthetic, or have it intergrate well with USI life support to slow down or, in large enough numbers, stop the development of homesickness ??

Now, sail back home! 😂😂😂

that lift and control by winglets is insane. With Grid Fins in reusability pack u have power to maybe increase angle of attack by few degrees, with theese winglets it looks like u would be able to do loop and land in same attempt. what the h**l

Great video, but i want to know all the songs that were used in this video because i loved them. :)

I made my boosters fly back and land like aircraft using wings. It was quite a experience.

Impressive landing! But the much more steeper ascent profile and extra fuel required for landing, makes me wonder if we just ascent efficiently, and no need for extra fuel, we can build a much smaller rocket at the first place, then the cost saving isn’t that much?

I did this with a smaller rocket, both stages landed vertically without parachutes. Not near KSC though, don't have enough dV left to turn around on the first stage.

Landing struts my guy

only works with reentery heating off?

Mammoth booster OP

Very nice! Although the rocket itself is pretty inefficient when it comes to payload weight you have to think about the money that you save with recovering the stages. Is it worth it?

I use parachuted boosters to save fuel. Soft splashdown is way safer and more effective/efficient

try setting the deflection on the fins to -100

One question,what happens when you have SAS on?

that booster isn't flying, it's falling with style.

laythe base if you can do it later! wanna see how that base works

Let’s make a space plane booster

Goood 2nd

When i try to use my second stage to land, i have no control. Its stuck in orbit, the buttons are grey and it can't turn on the engine. Why is this happening?

where does one download this?

What version?

7:50 You should’ve had a barge and landed on it!

Great video! Can you put craft file?

The brakes are the other way around

Interesting. My setup for reusable boosters has the boostback burn before circularizing the upper stage to minimize losses. I normally put 3 km/s on the first stage with 1.3+ TWR and 1.2-1.8 km/s on the second stage with 0.5+ TWR at max payload. And booster separation normally happens between 1100-1400 m/s orbit velocity (although I'm a pussy about landing them and use parachutes to get down to 20-30 m/s for easy usage). My orbits can get down to 75km on Apogee if I manage about 1.7 TWR on first stage and 0.8 on second stage. What is your net cost per ton of payload to LKO and max payload capacity usually? At the time of writing this, I've achieved 890 credits per ton for 33 ton payload and 1123 credits per ton for 81 ton payload. I'd be curious if you could hit 500 credits per ton. Maybe shrinking the upper stage and expanding the lower stage saves cost, or maybe the increased fuel requirement cancels out the advantage.

50th!

Why didn't you use landing legs?

Use an aerodynamic descent

*Elon musk wants to know your location*

Just kerbal landing

I guess it doesnt make any effect like saving money when you recover your vehicle. Its so sad. :(

finally a vid where I can know the name of (most) rocket parts!

Do, Or do not, There is no try.

Why don't You use legs

Anyone can do it with parachutes, I thought you are going to say how to do a suicide burn

Idk about “spaceX style”

You go into orbit wrong

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Pretty sure this is pointless because of the efficiency lost out on