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This assumes you are coming down right on your target. Capsule reentry is not that accurate, it would require some kind of thruster guidance. Helicopters can land without power?

They can encounter different problems at hypersonic flight due to the blowtorch effect on every tiny crevice. However the shuttles landing gear housing never had any issue, and spacex is also deploying its landing legs from the heat shield, so it may not be that big a deal.

I think K^2 meant a parachute as in a landing abort measure. Here is a question about the rotary method. Wouldn't you eventually need a turbojet to power your rotors at low altitude in order to perform a precision landing?

If that is the case, then essentially all they have done is built a pod with a space plane attached to it for storage space. Plus the extra gimmick of being able to return materials slightly faster. I don't see how they can possible expect anything to develop out of this.

But dream chaser was designed to dock with the ISS, it doesn't need a service module.

Hmm, I would think though, pressurized or not, they could just put those boxes inside it. Or must they be accessible from the outside? Also this is marketed as a way of returning cargo, and the extra module does not land.

This is interesting, but I don't get it. Whats the extra thing on dream chaser for?

Thank you but this its not the information I'm looking for. The reddit guy got his numbers confused, and the other is not a cycler. I know the numbers can be derived very quickly from the info I have given if you know the equations needed.

lol, airbags is getting kind off track, in my opinion. Its really more of a touchdown method, as in when you don't have enough data for a fine touchdown. Then again it could be legit on low gravity worlds. Other methods I can think of are also more grey zone type things, like ejecting crew (example vostok 1), or inflating a balloon, but then you wouldn't technically land.

I think the intended purpose of inflatables is an easier to transport shield against radiation, heat, etc.

Can they really? I thought the typical tower launch escape system requires ballast proportional to the weight of whatever it lifts away. - - - Updated - - - My point was more along the lines of lift having once been novel, yet we still land with it. - - - Updated - - - Also one point on powered descent failures, you can use redundant thrusters. The dragon V2 for instance uses 8 thrusters, and I am assuming this but I would expect it could perform and emergency landing on just 2.

In short, rocket thrust for pinpoint landings and parachutes if landing location is irrelevant. So basically manned space crafts, probes for specific locations, booster returns, cargo supply/return, etc should use a powered descent. Imagine if your commercial jets used a parachute landing every time cause its "safer". Most everything else is probably cost constrained and a parachute would be simpler, unless the object gets picked up by a powered descent capable spacecraft. I imagine some unique situation exist, like a very small rocket in which wings make sense, or a bad weather probe could use heli blades, or spyspaceplanes.

The temperature of space away from a heat source is 3 Kelvin. That is colder than any environment on earth. Most of your heat loss will be through sweat and radiation from your body. Which I suspect is slower than heat loss in a blizzard, or a pool of ice. So, space is freezing, but you would freeze to death slower.

Right, no hippies, only sea foam green connoisseurs. It could be a problem if people go that don't really want to go. Mars witch trials.

Space travel, a free pass to criminal behavior? I wanna be an astronaut! Imagine if one of the Apollo guys killed his crew. lol Doing anything shady in space is kinda hard, since everyone wants to know everything from your vitals to how you take a ..... Apparently once in space many human activities such as ... and violence just cease to exist. However legend has it that astronauts do in fact fart.

Ironically current scram jet test articles get launched from a rocket, which gets dropped from a plane.

I just looked up some specifications. The XB-70 could carry the weight of a fully fueled and loaded f9 upper stage heading for leo. But only to 20km and Mach 3, well bellow the 80km and Mach 10 at which the stage is designed to ignite. Also the XB-70 project cost $750,000,000 per vehicle in 1965.

You could probably slap a payload on white knight, however it would be small. Balloons also can't carry too much. Rockets are just much more powerful than airplanes.

I think it was scrubbed because they decided to allocate those resources to the Mars project instead. However I have not seen this in rumor through any official channels. Also in ksp you are crashing because of the way ksp drag works. Your engines are the most massive part off your rocket and so have the most drag. Try clipping a large nose cone into the top of the stage to more neutrally balance the vehicle.

Hi, here is something cool I think you'll appreciate. Flite Test | Rocket Glider & Free Flight: http://youtu.be/67fpOi5i9mM

Question is will this movie at least be better than jpiii. I think so... but it still won't hold a candle to jp, or even jpii. Movies just really suck these days.

I'm fairly certain that a creature with solid bones can not be a dinosaur, or alive. Bones are important organs with many functions, structural support being a less vital one.

To anyone who enjoys orbital math, I would really appreciate it if you could calculate some numbers for me. Because in ksp, kerbin and duna have the same resonance frequency as earth and mars, I’m sourcing the numbers I have from this earth-mars example. First I would like to know when to place the cycler into solar orbit, this should be the earliest occurrence of a kerbin-duna phase angle of 55.38 degrees. When does this event take place? The cyclers orbit has a synodic period of 2.145x kerbin years. If the cyclers periapsis is 13,683,999,542m, what is the apoapsis? I believe with these numbers I can get a cycler running… at least for the first cycle.

The species never existed. They go into this in the book but not the movie. The "dinosaurs" are not clones, the genetic material was not complete enough for cloning. Even if it were it would be impossible to definitively recreate the factors required for accurate embryonic development. The animals on the island where genetically engineered monsters designed to resemble what we belived dinosaurs to be like. Also in the book all the "dinosaurs" secreted saliva containing protein that is toxic to all current life on earth... because that makes sense.

Trajectories is giving me errors along side other mods. Kerbal engineer and kerbal alarm clock. Some parts are missing textures and on the load screen it says "module manager: 18 patches applied".