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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Burton West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Stealthy shuttles
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:33:16AM -0800, Evyn MacDude wrote:
Enter the atmosphere slowly....
Well, quite. I dare say a vehicle with sufficient lift would be able to
take a very slowly decelerating path, probably going round the world
several times, as it bled off speed in the upper atmosphere... but a
thermal protection system that could cope with such an extended heating
phase would be a significant challenge to design, and I fear is outside
the scope of GURPS Vehicles anyway.
He said TL11, think Reactionless thrusters. With sufficient thrust it should
possible to de-orbit with little to no relative lateral motion, a minimum of
vertical, & no rocket plume.
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