Ballistic rockets for science?

[Buster Charlie]

Jets are slow, and sometimes orbit is overkill. What if I want to collect science in a biome across the globe? Is there a reliable way to launch a rocket on a parabolic suborbital flight and reliably land at a position on the map?

 

Mech job has launch guidance but it's designed for orbits, it has landing guidance but it's kind of sketchy  in my experience.  There is the trajectories mod, but your can't really use it to plan a launch.

Is there a method or mod that will help with this?  Why carry all the extra weight and fuel to orbit, and extra heat of reentry if your just landing on the other side  of the globe? 

[marach]

I use SSTO's and skip orbit to the right place on kerbin and back.

[Buster Charlie]

I kinda had hope for cheap simple drone rockets that you  could launch to do science missions without a lot of flying around.

[Wolfos31]

Have a rocket with a TWR of over 1, Go suborbital and roughly get your landing trajectory to pass through the area you want to land. As drag draws your trajectory down, counter it with blips of the throttle. Once you're close to your destination use your rocket to fine tune your trajectory. Reentry heating shouldn't be a big issue as you really won't ever get above say 1600 m/s and any drops you do should be shallow.