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Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. (therecord.media)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well that's debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don't know how reusable it would have been.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it didn't do a reentry, how did it get down from that altitude?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

By landing?

Reentry doesn't mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it's just falling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure any reentry from orbit is going to involve high enough speeds to generate heating.