[amsat-bb] Re: New Cubesat - the Ultimate Fox Hunt

[Joe]

I'm crunching numbers right now,  but just thought of something

ICBM's  If we were to nuke RUSSIA or visa versa,  while these yes do not 
get to orbit,  they do get to just shy of orbital velocity, and re enter 
the atmosphere,  did they have all these elaborate heat shields?

Alan VE4YZ wrote:

>Joe and the group... Here is 25 year old data of STS5
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>http://www.habitablezone.com/columbia/Archive/Dryden/Documents/H-1254_Therma
>lResponseShuttleWingReentryHeading.pdf
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>Go to page 7 of the PDF and see graph and you can take off altitude,
>velocity over time.
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>Google is a wonderful thing.  Google "reentry velocity altitude shuttle"
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>But see where are the numbers to verify this? People make this statement all
>the time.  but have yet to show any data that verifies this.  Why is this
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>I'd like to see any data of speed vs altitude..
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>Joe
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