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No, they can't. Once you're supersonic, the aerodynamic stress will tear a rocket into shreds if there's even a few degrees of angle of attack.
by exDM69 12y ago
No, they can't. Once you're supersonic, the aerodynamic stress will tear a rocket into shreds if there's even a few degrees of angle of attack.
- Gravityloss 12y agoBut if you're high enough, the forces are not very high, so there's probably a Q limit, (that is, proportional to density * speed^2).
- lutorm 12y agoYeah, the landing attempts obviously flip before entry, while they're out of the atmosphere.