Timeline for How could a 90 m/s delta-v be enough to commit the space shuttle to landing?
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 15:29 | history | edited | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 14:56 | history | edited | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 14:55 | comment | added | Eph | Hmm I was gonna say you just beat to the punch, but it looks like you posted right after I started working on my answer. Did you mean force of the atmosphere rather than gravity for the 129km altitude? | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 13:35 | comment | added | user | Yes; as pointed out in the NASA manual quoted in the answer by Organic Marble, the actual delta-v applied is "usually" anywhere between 200 and 550 feet/s (and thus can fall outside of that range), which translates to the range 61 to 168 m/s. | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 13:31 | history | answered | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |