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Innovative Method for Return to the Launch Site of Reusable Winged Stages Martin Sippel, Josef Klevanski, Jens Kauffmann Space Launcher Systems Analysis (SART), DLR, Cologne, Germany This paper proposes a new and different approach for return to the launch site of non-SSTO reusable space transportation vehicles. The performance gain by the advanced capturing method shows a possible increase in delivered payload. The paper presents a detailed description of the proposed method, giving data of numerical simulations.