JF Mezei wrote on Sat, 8 Jun 2019
13:55:35 -0400:

On 2019-06-08 09:40, Jeff Findley wrote:

That's not how this works. The reentry burn will be timed such that it
avoids all tracked objects below the reentering vehicle. This isn't
that hard.

Doesn't that preclude precise landing for ballistic objects such as
capsules ...


Most capsules aren't pure ballistic objects. They can generate lift.


... since they have to time re-entry burn for "traffic" at 340km
altitiude instead of timing it to land next to the recovery ship?


99.6% clear. The 400 ms at most that you can't fly through aren't
going to appreciably affect anything.


And for powered landings, doesn't that require much more fuel/cross
range in order to paliate for doing a re-entry at a sub=obtimal time in
order to avoid the traffic?


Again, 400 ms, at most. It won't matter.


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