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I maybe mistaken, but I don’t see how that’s relevant. Dream chaser is designed to return from orbit. These boosters won’t reach anything like orbit, and will h
by Someone 5y ago
I maybe mistaken, but I don’t see how that’s relevant. Dream chaser is designed to return from orbit. These boosters won’t reach anything like orbit, and will have insufficient horizontal speed to start gliding.
Also, if you want to glide these boosters to earth, the challenge is to get them into more dense atmosphere with a low vertical speed. Once you’re there, it’s ‘easy’.
A test dropping them from a helicopter doesn’t test the ability to do that at all; it tests the ability to land after you’ve done that.