Talk:Aerobraking

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Can somebody add some numbers? What speed, temperature, etc please?

[edit] Topic needs revising

This page needs to be re-written. The author has confused and mixed aerobraking with aerocapture and direct entry.--Belchja 16:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

  • I agree, and made a first attempt. I had a good reason to keep these two straight (around 1998)! BTW, the picture really does look like aerocapture, but I'm reticent to remove it without a replacement. MFago 04:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Are plane changes/cross-range maneuvers really typical of aerobraking?MFago 04:47, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Do people think the sectioning helps for such a short article? MFago 00:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk from Aerobrake

A much more accurate description of Aeroassist maneuvers is located at Marshall Space Flight Center's In-space propulsion website. [1]

MCO did not fail because of "an error in the execution of the aerobraking maneuver", it failed because a unit conversion. The trajectory error caused the spacecraft to enter the atmosphere at lower than designed limits and was destroyed because of this.

  • One could say this is the same thing. Nevertheless, three years of my life .... MFago 04:20, 11 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Merging with Aerocapture

shouldn't this article be merged with that? --Juxi 07:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

  • No, Aerobraking and Aerocapture are two different Aeroassist techniques Belchja 21:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
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