Just got home from work, trying to catch up.
failing miserably. These breads go too damn fast, too much info to just scan through.
Am I seeing that these phones Q is talking about is what was on those pallets everyone was guessing about a couple weeks ago?
Night Baker.
Sigh.
I see someone dumped the contents of one of these here tonight.
They have to use those rear thrusters while in space to come back out of orbit and into the atmosphere.
At that point it is traveling near 25,000MPH, no?
This is why re entry angles are so important, so they don't skip across the atmosphere like a rock on a lake.
I see absolutely no reason they couldn't use them to adjust speed, altitude while in flight on approach.
Yes.
Rockets are solid or liquid fuel, almost no moving parts except pumps.
Jet engines are internal combustion with spinning rotors/fans.