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And then having enough fuel leftover to return to Earth from Geostationary orbit with your manned craft.
by ufmace 6y ago
And then having enough fuel leftover to return to Earth from Geostationary orbit with your manned craft.
- walrus01 6y agoAnd having a craft that can survive the heat load of re-entering the atmosphere from very high speed (as they demoed in an Orion test flight unmanned), if you're in Geostationary and thrust retrograde until your orbit becomes a highly elliptical one with a new perigee of around 100km, you're going to re-enter very hot and fast.