• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I’m reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

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      3 days ago

      Well that’s debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don’t know how reusable it would have been.

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        3 days ago

        If it didn’t do a reentry, how did it get down from that altitude?

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          3 days ago

          By landing?

          Reentry doesn’t mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it’s just falling.

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            3 days ago

            I’m pretty sure any reentry from orbit is going to involve high enough speeds to generate heating.