Such a vertical trajectory is amazing, no? Must have been a “steering” wind
like was said.
jd
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The second flight was to ~92km. Lithobrake landing, but my point was that it
was still quite close to the pad with no descent steering at all.
On Thursday, November 26, 2015, John Dom <johndom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The top flaps were for aerobreaking going only up and down. The clip states
nothing about they had steering function.
http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=377
This 2011 one had an apogee of only 42 km. Ack, it landed with a chute, not a
powered landing at all. Do you have a trajectory graph?
jd
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It has the big fin panels on the top for steering too. On the one high Stiga
flight we were flying in the same region to a similar altitude and 'landed'
within a few hundred yards of the liftoff point with no terminal guidance at
all.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:38 AM, John Dom <johndom@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> >
wrote:
On 11/24/2015 10:52 AM, Rand Simberg wrote:
It's not clear from the story that the booster went all the way to
space, just the capsule.
I wonder how the Shepard manages to reach the pad from an altitude of
100 km with only tiny fins in thin air to translate. The burn exhaust
gimbaling comes only late in the return flight.
Does anybody know of its trajectory? Radar?
jd
