Note the effects of impingement on the Soviet BOR as an example.
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From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Henry Spencer
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:13 PM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: reentry Isp (was Re: SSTO)
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, rebel without a job wrote:
The conclusion I'm drawing is that only a tiny bit of the re-entry
energy is carried off by the ablated particles of the heat shield, and
the vast majority of the re-entry energy is used in heating the
surrounding air...
Am I getting this right?