Timeline for Can a plane with air-breathing engines in level flight achieve enough velocity to make a single orbit?
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 21:16 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/872200628365393920 | ||
| Jun 6, 2017 at 6:37 | history | reopened |
fooot TomMcW Romeo_4808N Federico kevin |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 22:44 | comment | added | Eric Urban | @mins can you please review this one and consider lifting the hold? | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 19:28 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | Eric Urban | I updated this to make it a much narrower question. I'm not really asking about a reusable spaceplane. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 19:10 | history | edited | Eric Urban | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Define what is meant by orbit, what engines can be used and where, what materials and power sources are required
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:33 | vote | accept | Eric Urban | ||
| Jun 5, 2017 at 15:52 | history | closed |
mins Firee Ralph J♦ Dan Hulme Jan Hudec |
Needs more focus | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 15:07 | comment | added | Dan Hulme | @fooot I agree, and I don't think it's actually "off topic", but I don't like to see answers to a good question split up like this, and you can't close as duplicate of a question on another site. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 14:40 | comment | added | fooot | @DanHulme just because a question is answered elsewhere doesn't mean it has to be off topic. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 9:56 | comment | added | Dan Hulme | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is already answered on [sx.se] | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 8:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 7:51 | comment | added | mins | Also see on Space.SE: Can you get to orbital speed with an air breathing engine? | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 5:33 | answer | added | Peter Kämpf | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 3:20 | answer | added | Antzi | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 3:18 | answer | added | Koyovis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 2:37 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | When the space shuttle returns from orbital velocity, it's going something like Mach 25, and the atmospheric heating issues at that speed are extreme. Building a craft that uses air-breathing engines to reach those sorts of speeds, that also deals with the incredible heating, seems like a very tall order, which might explain why it hasn't happened yet. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 2:09 | history | asked | Eric Urban | CC BY-SA 3.0 |