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The Art of Aerobraking

Posted by michael on from the flat-rock-on-a-still-pond dept.

gizmo_mathboy writes: "Yahoo! Dailynews has the following Space.com article about the risk of using aerobraking for orbital insertion of spacecraft versus the certainty of using conventional propulsion systems. This is all explained in terms of the Mars Global Surveyor craft that is expected to do its orbital insertion on October 23. Skip the wimpy aerobraking and as a prophead trapped in a code monkey's job I say, "In Thrust We Trust.""

3 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. Ahem, posted since yesterday by kaszeta · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Must we always discuss everything twice?

  2. Hey! by Jupiter9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...as a prophead trapped in a code monkey's job...

    I prefer to be balled a "Keyboard Cowboy"
    YeeHaw!!!

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    Does anyone remember /\/\/\?
  3. TROLL ALERT! by Unleaded42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pinging dailynews-a.snv.yahoo.com [216.136.131.80] with 32 bytes of data.

    216.136.131.80