• @[email protected]
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    33 months ago

    I’m reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

    • Echo Dot
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      13 months ago

      Well that’s debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don’t know how reusable it would have been.

        • Echo Dot
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          23 months ago

          By landing?

          Reentry doesn’t mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it’s just falling.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            I’m pretty sure any reentry from orbit is going to involve high enough speeds to generate heating.