From: Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:14:34PM +0100, Onno Meyer wrote:
Next Week: Probably a stealthy TL11 shuttle.
Is there any practicable way of making a reentry vehicle stealthy in the
real world? I'd have thought that the ionisation phase would be pretty
obvious no matter what you make the vehicle itself out of...
You could mimic a natural reentry (I guess that would be just "entry")
event, like the zillions of meteorites that come in every day, but that
would rule out manned craft without sci-fi inertial compensation.
The use of "cold" acceleration mechanisms like tethers and mass drivers
might be able to let a capsule decel to nearly stationary and glide in,
but hiding the tether and counterweight, etc might be difficult.
--
Jeff Wilson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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