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Re: Spacefraft Aerodynamics - my speculations.

Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Spacefraft Aerodynamics - my speculations.
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 00:29:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: <006301c0bf03$82eed070$0107a8c0@tig.com.au>

Good analysis, I think.  But there is one thing I do not know:

Are the collisions between the gas molecules and the S/C elastic or inelastic?
That would certainly affect the coefficient of drag.

Doug
NA1DB

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