So I've never actually bothered with *mostly recoverable* spacecraft or full blown SSTOs with rockets being so much more effective and simpler. However, I've also installed a few mods that ask rather high sums for the parts in the career mode, so it would seem I should start taking recovery more seriously to both save my money up and to recover the expensive engines and I would like to ask about the practically of this.
On average, what's the operating cost of a shuttle in percentage? How much of the starting sum do you never see again?
Should I just go with SSTOs? I've tried before but I could never build one, admittedly not having tried much, but there's also some charm in the Space Shuttle; after all however impractical was at times it's still one of the most iconic spacecraft and one of the first you learn about as a kid. Are such systems sensible in KSP? Maybe I could just take some of those oversized SRBs from the SpaceY mod and recover them with chutes and slap them on something with no other detachable parts?
Let me know about your ways to deal with recovery and efficient operation.
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So I've never actually bothered with *mostly recoverable* spacecraft or full blown SSTOs with rockets being so much more effective and simpler. However, I've also installed a few mods that ask rather high sums for the parts in the career mode, so it would seem I should start taking recovery more seriously to both save my money up and to recover the expensive engines and I would like to ask about the practically of this.
On average, what's the operating cost of a shuttle in percentage? How much of the starting sum do you never see again?
Should I just go with SSTOs? I've tried before but I could never build one, admittedly not having tried much, but there's also some charm in the Space Shuttle; after all however impractical was at times it's still one of the most iconic spacecraft and one of the first you learn about as a kid. Are such systems sensible in KSP? Maybe I could just take some of those oversized SRBs from the SpaceY mod and recover them with chutes and slap them on something with no other detachable parts?
Let me know about your ways to deal with recovery and efficient operation.
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