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Details
- Type: VAB
- Class: lifter
- Part Count: 39
- Pure Stock
- KSP: 1.12.2
Description
A stock+ 17-ton launch vehicle with automatic recovery of 1st stage and automated trajectory control for most of orbital insertion. Even with high recovery costs, this launch vehicle recoups the difference in its recovery equipment within 5 launches.
In-Game Description & Launch Instructions
Payload: 17 tons. Please match this as exactly as possible for optimum automated launch performance. Sample payload of one full ore tank included.
Launch:
Full throttle, SAS, stage.
When rocket begins gravity turn, set SAS to prograde.
Cut throttle when predicted apoapsis reaches 200km. Switch to first stage to land it. (Set SAS to retrograde, wait until it falls over in the water.)
Finish circularization and orbital maneuvering.
Costs
Kestrel-9 launch cost (K): 96,564
Kestrel-9 recovery value (R): 52,818
Launch cost (L=K-R): 43,746
Kestrel-9 recovery cost estimate (C=R*0.2): 10,564 (20% was chosen to be the highest possible loss. Realistically, the booster will land 200-300km from the KSC, with a recovery loss of 11-16%.)
True launch cost (Lt=L+C): 54,310
Launch cost without recovery equipment (L0): 61,534
Savings from recovery equipment (S=L0-Lt): 7,224
Cost of recovery equipment (Rc=K-L0): 35,030
Launches required to recoup cost of recovery equipment (Rc/S): 4.85
1st stage cost (K1): 61,080
1st stage recovery equipment cost: 34,030
2nd stage cost (K2): 35,484
2nd stage recovery equipment cost: 1,000
1st stage fuel cost (F1=K1-R): 8,262
2nd stage fuel cost (F2): 1,377
A stock rocket called Kestrel-9 Mk2. Built with 39 of the finest parts, its root part is EnginePlate3.
Built in the VAB in KSP version 1.12.2.
