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Posted by <tapwater on April 5, 2006, 1:18 pm
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Some of the drag can be converted into lift. That is a principle of
aerodynamics. I can see that the people in this group may be rocket
scientists and astrophysics experts, but they ain't studied aerodynamics.
> -> What I meant was initially use thrusters to kill orbital velocity (but
not
> -> by much), which would cause the spacecraft to sink "slowly" then use
the
> -> aerodynamic drag (which causes heating) to provide some lift into
thinner
> -> atmosphere. I know you can't de-orbit "on command" without thrust
(although
> -> near earth orbits decay eventually because of drag).
>
> Drag is not the same thing as lift.
>
> dow
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