Recover of mid stages still valid ?

[ManuxKerb]

Hi

As 1.02 introduced burn up chutes, is it still usefull/ possible to make mid athmosperic stages with parachutes or do they burn up and all the stage recovery thing is a thing of the past ?

On how many stages do you put parachutes ?

thanks! :-)

ManuxKerb

[Geschosskopf]

The distance at which atmospheric debris disappeared has been increased 10-fold, to about 28.5km now. Unless your rocket has insane TWR and is trailing aero flames below 28.5km, then you're not going fast enough to burn your chutes. From what I understand, the chute-burning only happens when you're going fast enough to cause flames. I could be wrong, though.

[ManuxKerb]

Hi

Thanks that a good point but i meant when decoupling a stage in say 35 km and up. It will be subjectet to reentry heat -> Deployed chutes burn up -> Crash. Even then boosters do have no heat shield so. Is it even practical to use chutes anymore on the not for return intended stages ?

Thanks