Comments on: Chinese manned test capsule returns to Earth https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/ Mon, 11 May 2020 18:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080576 Mon, 11 May 2020 18:06:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080576 That re-usable pod looks trashed.

But I am sure they will just bolt a new aluminum skin on it and fly it again. Cheap fast and easy.

I would like to see an extreme aero-braking test. Just how often can it be done to slow something down and just how slow can something get while braking like this.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080458 Sat, 09 May 2020 04:38:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080458 In reply to Dick Eagleson.

Dick Eagleson: My gosh, that is a very good point. But then, the Russians have been using the SLS management style since about 2005, so we should not be surprised that even the Chinese have outpaced them.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080457 Sat, 09 May 2020 04:27:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080457 Although it’s been the case for some time, this launch and test now makes official the fact that China has succeeded Russia as the #2 spacefaring nation on Earth. Russia has been trying to build and test a next-generation manned capsule to replace Soyuz seemingly forever without success. The Chinese have now done so.

]]> By: MKB https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080402 Fri, 08 May 2020 17:08:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080402 IIRC the mission profile had them bringing the capsule back from an altitude of 8,000km which would imply a much more energetic re-entry, with associated scorching, than a more typical LEO re-entry.

Presumably this is in line with working toward lunar ambitions.

]]> By: David M. Cook https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080401 Fri, 08 May 2020 17:05:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080401 They need to make the upper section (the ”afterbody“) angled back to keep it out of the fire!

]]> By: Matt in AZ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080396 Fri, 08 May 2020 16:36:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080396 Sure looks like a Dragon 1 to me. A bit more scorching though – I wonder how the refurbishment will compare.

]]> By: John Fisher https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-manned-test-capsule-returns-to-earth/#comment-1080395 Fri, 08 May 2020 16:29:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=65616#comment-1080395 Hopefully for their own safety, they copied Space-X and not Boeing.

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