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Blackstar?
OM wrote: Ejecting some sort of cold gas sheath to protect the belly from reentry heating? ...Or some sort of EM plasma generators designed to create a protective, cooling plasma barrier between the hull and the superheated variety? Like using a sunspot to keep something "cool" as it skims over the surface of the Sun? Well, there is that electrostatic bulk cooling like is supposed to be used on the B-2's exhausts. Pat |
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