To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
-D1-
Using particles.
Should be tied to hull temperature I think. Maybe some other variables to consider,
Awesome 🙂
Maybe some other variables to consider,
Hmm, I think it could work if based solely on velocity and atmosphere pressure/density
Earth atmosphere in Pioneer ends at 24km pressure and density are then 0.0, but I think reentry friction starts at about 80km.
Pioneer is suposed to be based on reality. In that case you have found a bug, it is not by design. It was likely caused by the atmosphere rewrite of several months ago.
Certainly 0 atmosphere pressure at 24km is not correct. Some aircraft fly at 20km.
However, you are reading atmosphere pressure from a figure with only 2 decimal places. After 30km the Earth's atmosphere is so thin that only less than 1/100 of an atmosphere remains, which would not be displayed by the readout with 2 decimal places.
By the time you reach 100km, your flying through just 0.00001 atmospheres 🙂 Which is still "enough" to fry your ship 😉
Yes, I think it might be a bug. Heating of hull should also probably start much earlier from what I can google.
Thanks for the input s2odan.
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