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Except it sounds like the same shuttle, and amount of fuel, used for the deorbit burn would be sufficient to also put it into a long-term stable orbit instead.
by Firerouge 2y ago
Except it sounds like the same shuttle, and amount of fuel, used for the deorbit burn would be sufficient to also put it into a long-term stable orbit instead.
- jki275 2y agoI read elsewhere it would take something like 100x the amount of fuel to move it up to a stable orbit. Maybe people are defining things differently, but bringing it down, just logically, has to be way easier with gravity and atmospheric drag helping.