[AR] Re: Cubesats orbital grenades ?

  • From: Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:32:10 -0800

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, it's (almost) perfectly true *because* molecular flow is so
different.

You're ignoring angle of attack. Almost perfectly true is not
perfectly true. The second order nuances are what would make it an
interesting PhD, hopefully we're not giving them out for trivial first
order effects.

Ben

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