Hi all, pardon the new guy here.

So I've become obsessed with space and rocketry. I want to build my own fairly decent satellite and launch it into space. That however, is going to take me several years of planning, building and testing, so I'm not going to get into that part of things just yet.

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I'm going to start building some rockets. I'm going to start small and work my way up to a high altitude rocket that can actually make into space. Which leads me to the purpose of this post. I of course want to be able to get telemetry and guidance data to and from my (bigger) rockets, and I haven't quite found exactly what I want in terms of how to do that. My biggest concern is communication between the rocket and ground station. Which being upwards of 200km is kind of a difficult task. I also want to be able to remotely pilot the rocket.

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Anyone have a good idea of what kind of long range communication systems are around that have the ability to transfer live data, like telemetry data, but also remote control? I've been looking at LoRaWAN which seems like if has the possibility to do what I want if I have a big enough antenna, I just don't know if it can transfer all the things I want it to like video, remote control, and other data that you'd want from something to make it into space.

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My goal is also to make it a reusable rocket (not self landing like spaceX) but be able to clip it back together after every (successful) launch, so I'm not exactly worried about expense or size (to a point). Any suggestions are absolutely welcome. I'm not new to electronics or telecom, but I am somewhat new to the compact super long range kind of telecom. Tia!