Timeline for Calculating drop time from a spaceship to a planet
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| Jan 9 at 13:07 | vote | accept | Noam Josephides | ||
| Jan 9 at 2:14 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | You'd be limited by deceleration forces and heating on encountering the atmosphere. The lower gravity would help with this, both directly by decreasing the amount of velocity you gain from gravity during descent and by increasing the scale height of the atmosphere, giving you a longer path through thin atmosphere before you reach the denser regions. But if you're native, you might also be less tolerant to high accelerations. | |
| Jan 8 at 13:12 | comment | added | BMF | @AlexP OP said something about it being a bare bones type of drop pod, so I went with minimum fuel. But yeah, it wouldn't take too much more delta-v. You can imagine shrinking the periapsis a couple hundred km further, somewhere underground at that point, and where the ellipse would then intersect. | |
| Jan 8 at 12:31 | comment | added | AlexP | That's with a minimal deorbit burn. If they are willing to expend more fuel they can make the transition orbit intersect the atmosphere sooner, even much sooner. | |
| Jan 8 at 11:03 | history | answered | BMF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |