HEC core with a simple therm on the side and a few solar panels. Small fuel tank and terrier engine. Heat shield just below that. Pe set to just over 100k with elliptical orbit. I burn retrograde to get my Pe low enough to land. Then I dump the stage, leaving only the configuration above, coming in heat shield first. Complete explosion. My plan was to ditch the shield once below the worst of it, using the terrier and parachutes to land.
Questions:
1. what is the required speed I need to reduce to in order to avoid a melt down? Or do I just need a bigger shield?
2. I'm not using any aerobraking to set up my initial orbit. So my Ap is several Million, while my Pe is stable at 100K. I just rotate a few times to make sure I'm likely to hit land.
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HEC core with a simple therm on the side and a few solar panels. Small fuel tank and terrier engine. Heat shield just below that. Pe set to just over 100k with elliptical orbit. I burn retrograde to get my Pe low enough to land. Then I dump the stage, leaving only the configuration above, coming in heat shield first. Complete explosion. My plan was to ditch the shield once below the worst of it, using the terrier and parachutes to land.
Questions:
1. what is the required speed I need to reduce to in order to avoid a melt down? Or do I just need a bigger shield?
2. I'm not using any aerobraking to set up my initial orbit. So my Ap is several Million, while my Pe is stable at 100K. I just rotate a few times to make sure I'm likely to hit land.
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