krpc VS RemoteTech

There used to be https://krpc.github.io/krpc/ but no longer maintained AFIAK

Nevermind. The fix outlined here fixed the issue. Thanks for the quick fix on that! Looking forward to the 0.5.1 update!

You may want to give this a try: https://trpc.io/

Krpc: https://krpc.github.io/krpc/

It is one of the best games out there for doing actual learning while playing a game, and is respected among people who actually work on real life space programs. If you want to engage in programming through it, I recomment kRPC, which provides a protocol for interfacing it with external programs, so you can write your rocket controls in a number of actual programming languages.

I was able to work around this to manually install into my virtual environment instead of going through pip: https://github.com/krpc/krpc/issues/624

Potentially with kRPC will let you get the data and it supports various programming languages but I have very limited experience with it (basic launch scripts) but I know a lot is possible

Get Kerbal Space Program and use the kRPC mod to control it from your favorite programming language (Python, C++, etc.). Take a rocket, launch it into orbit, deorbit it, and propulsively soft-land it back onto the pad. For extra credit, artificially add noise/dropout to your sensor inputs, and then do the same thing.

It's controlled via the KRPC mod. Its a very good mod for what it is and is a greate alternative to KOS.

If you want to learn an actual language but still want KSP to be involved, another option may be kRPC (if it still exists nowadays), which allows you to write code that interacts with KSP in any compatible language like Python.

RemoteTech

For a sample implementation handling similar problem (lightspeed-based signal delay) for discrete objects (small enough to ignore lightspeed within a single object), RemoteTech mod for Kerbal Space Program (Unity game) supports it - sources are available on Github to browse through.