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I've seen no evidence that there was any overshoot here. It sounds like the satellites were inserted into the desired orbit and then the second stage broke up.
by wmf 2y ago
I've seen no evidence that there was any overshoot here. It sounds like the satellites were inserted into the desired orbit and then the second stage broke up.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> no evidence that there was any overshoot here. It sounds like the satellites were inserted into the desired orbit and then the second stage broke up Does Long March 6A's first stage not burn out, past no return, higher than Falcon 9? For a solid-fuel rocket, burnout altitude almost defines payload altitude. (Long March 6A's liquid-fuelled second stage adjusts for that.) That isn't so for a throttlable engine. Given a solid-fuelled first stage, a competent engineer would add a margin of safety to the energy budget.