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Can't they do a few loops around the planet and skim only the upper atmosphere? always worked well for me on kerbal space program, haha
by isoprophlex 7mo ago
Can't they do a few loops around the planet and skim only the upper atmosphere? always worked well for me on kerbal space program, haha
- uoaei 7mo agoAerobraking causes heat cycles. Expanding and contracting a material that already has "not large, large chunks missing" doesn't seem very prudent. Even before the evidence of deterioration, I'm not sure the safety culture at NASA would reach for that any time soon when a single high-temp event would work.
- isoprophlex 7mo agointeresting; obviously kerbal space logic does not apply to the real world... thanks for the explainer as to why
- sephamorr 7mo agoThis is actually what is thought to partially have caused the damage seen previously. The new trajectory is supposed to just have a single heating pulse instead of two.