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Successful reentry with radio telescope deployed

Open doktorstick opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

DMOS 1.3.8

According to the flavor text, the "undersize signals intelligence satellite reads: Warning: Dish is FRAGILE; it is NOT for use in the atmosphere...

Shock and amazement when I de-orbited with it unfurled and it made it all the way to the ground in one piece.

doktorstick avatar Jan 16 '17 02:01 doktorstick

That can happen, the breaking force is calculated based on the orientation of the dish with respective to your direction through the atmosphere. It's also possible that the breaking force needs tweaking.

DMagic1 avatar Feb 01 '17 16:02 DMagic1