Satellite burning up on reentry - GIF

Satellite burning up on reentry.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...507#post122810
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...294#post177050
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...209#post145892
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...806#post133341

Raiders of the Lost Satellite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfQWz4gVcP8

This is a simulation of what happens to a satellite upon reentry. It's really melting, and it's really a satellite mockup, but it was done in a lab with a wind tunnel that blasts the object with 12000* gas.
Still cool to watch.

Neil

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Originally Posted by sossol

This is a simulation of what happens to a satellite upon reentry. It's really melting, and it's really a satellite mockup, but it was done in a lab with a wind tunnel that blasts the object with 12000* gas.
Still cool to watch.

Neil

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I'm glad you explained that because I was just about to ask how they could get that on video.