Reusable Launchers for Career games

[Duke MelTdoWn]

My approach to career games is to try to fly the launcher back to KSC to recover most of it for 100%.
Over the years, I have created a collection of reusable rockets, cargo and passenger planes for different payload sizes.
Launch and reentry procedures for each vessel can be found in the workshop description (I work these out in Sandbox).

Meltdown's Reusable Launchers
Steam collection: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2995059664

Rockets
Tiny Reusable Launcher - 2 tons to Mun or Minmus
Light Reusable Launcher - 15 tons to Low Kerbin Orbit (LKO)
Medium Reusable Launcher - 25 tons to LKO
Heavy Reusable Launcher - 80 tons to LKO
Very Heavy Reusable Launcher - 180 tons to LKO
Extremely Heavy Reusable Launcher - 255 tons to LKO


Passenger Planes
Gisl - 2 crew / 2950 m/s (external seats)
Naga III - 2 crew / 4600 m/s (external seats, two stage)
Naga VI - 4 crew / 1800 m/s (external seats)
Chonker - 16 crew / 1750 m/s (external seats)
Silverfish - 4 crew / 1650 m/s
MunAir - 8 crew / 1570 m/s
JoolAir - 8 crew / 5027 m/s (two stage)
Teardrop - 4 crew / 3480 m/s (aero exploits)
Sancus - 8 crew / 6050 m/s (aero exploits)
Valkyrie - 4 crew / 4360 m/s (two stage)
Valhalla - 4 crew / 6400 m/s (three stage) 

Cargo Planes
Gler - 2 tons to Mun (narrow fairing)
Skyfly IX - 10 tons to Duna (MK2 bay)
Super Guppy II - 20 tons to Jool (MK3 bay)
Super Guppy III - 74 tons to LKO (MK3 bay)
Bumblebee - 15 tons to LKO (wide fairing)
Wasp - 40 tons to LKO (wide fairing)

My current favorite is 'Wasp', 40 tons to orbit is plenty and the fairing is large enough to transport Mun Landers and station modules. And it is much easier to get back to KSC in a plane.

What is your approach to reusable launchers?

Edited Friday at 01:31 AM by Duke MelTdoWn

[Duke MelTdoWn]

PS: the collection above is for high tech stuff.
Ships for fresh career games are in this collection:

Meltdown's Minimalist Career Ships
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2995073286

Edited Friday at 01:48 AM by Duke MelTdoWn