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Balancing the final stage for tank delivery to a space station


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Finally had a chance to test orbiting a Orange fuel can to 100+k orbit with the goal of recovery both the empty can and booster. Settled upon this stock design using two mainsails and skippers. (All mainsails too wasteful of fuel, all skippers underpowered for launch. Also, more stable flight.)

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Note the difference in fuel left in the core stage with the mainsail boosters lacking recovery and the skipper one with recovery package.

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Booster recovery after placing payload in orbit. Note, one should burn all the fuel off after reentry starts.

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