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This looks awesome. Going up shouldn’t be too bad; but the decent is the part that scares me. Wouldn’t it reenter orbit with extreme velocity?
by petarb 3y ago
This looks awesome. Going up shouldn’t be too bad; but the decent is the part that scares me. Wouldn’t it reenter orbit with extreme velocity?
- wrs 3y agoOrbit? It’s a balloon gondola.
- imglorp 3y agoIt will have about zero horizontal velocity, or whatever ambient wind speed. For orbit, it would need 21000 kph.
- pc86 3y agoAverage windspeed at 30km altitude looks to be about 15 m/s which is certainly not nothing especially compared to average surface speeds. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-wind-speeds-in-m-s-vs-altitude-in-km-On-an-average-wind-speeds-are-minimum-in_fig1_328173177 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-wind-speeds-in-m...