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Apparently, it's all about feathering the throttle. Very nice!

Near-perfect landing, super smooth

Score: 96.5 point landing Speed: 1.1mph Angle: 0.7° Time: 45 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 43.7mph Max height: 256ft Engine used: 73 times Boosters used: 37 times https://ehmorris.com/lander/

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I see it took you about seven months from "Initial Commit" to its current state. How did you stay on track all that time?

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Yes but you can also compete on using as little throttle/booster as possible! IMO the perfect landing is one where you engage the engine at the exact right moment to touch down at <1mph, and you engage a booster only once in order to be upright. Engine and booster use aren't part of the score though.

The older commits were part of a previous idea that I abandoned, then a few weeks ago I deleted almost everything and gave it another try.

Thanks for playing!

> IMO the perfect landing is one where you engage the engine at the exact right moment to touch down at <1mph, and you engage a booster only once in order to be upright.

Would be interesting to see, if optimal control would do just that or use many short bursts.

Yeah, but how many times can you flip the rocket?

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