Fastest Crash Speed into Earth Challenge

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In this challenge, you need to have the Infinite Fuel and No Drag sandbox settings on, because the object of this challenge is to crash your rocket into the surface as possible, without escaping the Earth's gravity. You must stay in the atmosphere below 30 Km during your entire flight. You can do this challenge on both IOS and Android devices, because it requires no mods or planet packs. In order to get your record counted, you must post a link to a video of the full flight of your rocket from launch to crash submitted. Use a capsule or probe with any fuel tank (I recommend 4 wide fuel tanks, because they have the least drag), you can use any engine you would like, but you should make your rocket tall and very controllable. I do not care about which mods you use, but the game must be updated to version 1.4, and you do not have to record audio. Here is a sample clip of what I am talking about:

Note: DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO CLIP BEFORE WATCHING IT!

Please reply with your video clips or reply with a download link to the video. I will manually download each video and review it to see if it qualifies.
I need you to send a full video clip because when the rocket crashes, the velocity changes to 0 m/s right away.
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The picture above is how I want you to set your settings before recording your video.
 

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Ah-ha...sorry no vid
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Chasing the peri apsis around a while, 7400 seems possible, 7600 just won’t go down at least with this fancy rig
 
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I’m to lazy and Luddite to figure out vids, but anyone uses that rocket will quickly realize my said parameters, is rather neatly bound by game physics...
But who else is giving this a go!?!
I can’t be #1, that’s silly, gotta be some trick to improve things
 

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I tried it, but I did a big trip in space, so it can't count for the challenge, but still I wanted to share it. On the other side, I used no cheat (except no drag for reentry), and made the launch with drag on (drag bug fixed):
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This is one second before I crashed (couldn't do better):
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I'll let you guess how I did this :p
 

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I'll let you guess how I did this
Made your orbit apoapsis out as far as it'll go, timewarped out, adjusted the periapsis until the orbit was basically a line rather than a circle and then burned direct for Earth from Pluto whilst having your orbital velocity increased by Kepler and gravity.
 

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Made your orbit apoapsis out as far as it'll go, timewarped out, adjusted the periapsis until the orbit was basically a line rather than a circle and then burned direct for Earth from Pluto whilst having your orbital velocity increased by Kepler and gravity.
The beginning is right, though I stopped at Saturn level (but going higher would have been more efficient indeed). The retroburn at apoapsis is right too, but not the final trajectory.
 

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The beginning is right, though I stopped at Saturn level (but going higher would have been more efficient indeed). The retroburn at apoapsis is right too, but not the final trajectory.
Based off the rules that The Golden Creeper said in the original post, don’t you have to stay in the atmosphere the entire flight, or am I just reading it wrong.
 

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Based off the rules that The Golden Creeper said in the original post, don’t you have to stay in the atmosphere the entire flight, or am I just reading it wrong.
Indeed, I mentioned myself it doesn't count for the challenge. Actually I wanted to try this but I forgot about the rules (I should have re-read the challenge :rolleyes:). My fault obviously, but my intention now is just to share it.
 

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Ok, so here's how I did it.

First I reached LEO with this:
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Then a big burn to go very high:
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Note that I got an encounter with Saturn, but that was not intentional. Anyway I won't enter its SOI because:
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Once I reach the apohelion I reverse my orbit, and get an encounter with Earth. What allowed me to do this is the use of a resonant orbit.

Before encounter:
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This gonna hurt... o_O
Then I just burnt everything I had left to increase speed.

I also tried to reenter with drag on, but drag almost instantaneously killed all my speed! Another proof that brute-forcing isn't the solution to fight drag.

Again, it doesn't count for this challenge!
 

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Now here is a legit attempt:
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9145 m/s (sorry, no video recording though)
 

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Indeed, I mentioned myself it doesn't count for the challenge. Actually I wanted to try this but I forgot about the rules (I should have re-read the challenge :rolleyes:). My fault obviously, but my intention now is just to share it.
Your all good. Sorry if I came off the wrong way. :)