joiz
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awh ****. ok. umh, but its still feels slower for the ship right?
AHHHHHHH IM NOT!!! im saying what if we reentered in a way that allowed us to stay at mach two as the air is hugely thin in the upper atmosphere. and could someone please tell me how doing that is more dangerous than going through a furnace? maybe true about high aspect ratio wings giving extra weight.
Thanks to the drag, all the slowing happened in the upper atmosphere and so there where no reentry flames.
Orion is for me the beginning of a new era of boredom. And it will take a while until the world will ever see something as capable as the shuttle again.
Correct me if I am wrong.
So shuttle entry is hot enough not reach heat shield material max temperature and fast enough not to allow too much heat to be radiated to the hull.
Shuttle can reach a max altitude of 1000 km and if I am right it can't make polar orbits.
So basically you have a LEO plane. Right?
Maximal 650 km, but can do polar orbits from a launch site permitting polar launches - which was only Vandenberg. The payload penalty is huge then.
yes. with scarily thin SRBs and they allready had a tainted reputation, so balless NASA said no.Shuttle can indeed make polar orbits. Was planned to do so before Vandenberg launch base got shut down in 1986. Discovery was planned to make first manned polar orbit.
If I understand it correctly, filament wound SRBs don't have the one weak point that the segemented ones do - field joints.yes. with scarily thin SRBs and they allready had a tainted reputation, so balless NASA said no.
yes. with scarily thin SRBs and they allready had a tainted reputation, so balless NASA said no.
Incorrect.
The USAF said no, because they could not rely on NASA's expensive toy to launch defense-related payloads.
in most likelyhood true. titans are not massively better though. and they're not as cool looking.
Incorrect. Maximum temperature on the tip of Concordes nose was 107 degress C. The nose rarely got about 80 or 90. The rest of the airframe was at much lower temperatures.
heres one way the shuttle would have been better. pop it up, take some picks of those pesky soviets playing with their toys while they don't expect any keyholes to pass over and catch em "red" (getit?) handed trying to spread their communist evil!The Titan 4B was far better for the Airforce needs as the shuttle could have been.
heres one way the shuttle would have been better. pop it up, take some picks of those pesky soviets playing with their toys while they don't expect any keyholes to pass over and catch em "red" (getit?) handed trying to spread their communist evil!
well, even with digital downlinks, the sattelites passsing over is still predictable and so you can hide it all when they go overhead.Ah ok. With a shuttle you mean? A platform on which you have more vibrations than in London Waterloo station?
This concept was cool before the first digital downlinks for spy satellites existed.
well, even with digital downlinks, the sattelites passsing over is still predictable and so you can hide it all when they go overhead.
And how is the shuttle passing over any less predictable?well, even with digital downlinks, the sattelites passsing over is still predictable and so you can hide it all when they go overhead.