we doin commercial launches

so, we have always sent crafts with random rockets (lol yeees ik), but i think its time we started reusability,
we have been building a new craft, called Flower-1 (because it looks like a flower when open), to begin this, currently its only use is actually for sattalite recovery [edit: now cargo too] (which is very good already XD), but in the future it will have cargo and even crew variants, the sattalite recovery works so the craft launches, rendezvous with the target sattalite, dock with the sattalite (or not, if its not too heavy it can deorbit without docking but no warp allowed then), and then reenter, it has flaps to help 1 stabilize and 2 slow down, then it lands on a landing pad.
we hope this can help in things like career mode when money is required to help actually reuse,
we are not going 100% reusability however, we still will use some normal crafts with very large crafts/modules.
perseverance will also eventually use a no inf fuel for flight (since its reusable its an SSTO), however a special dev console command will be used instead.
tnx ;)


screenshots:


Sat Recovery landed on LP, cubesat 2 recovered inside


Cargo version headed to orbit


cubesat 3 deployed in droo orbit by Cargo variant


custom sat deployed by cargo variant


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    11.4k Chtite451SR2

    note:

    this might also include a rideshare cubesat program, however, we will still work with other companies on launching sats ;)

    edit: yep, look at link at top

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