From: smithm@SPAMBLOCKnetapps.com.au.retro.com   
      
   On 24 Jul 2004 14:55:03 -0700   
   remyv@trybal.biz (Remy Villeneuve) wrote:   
      
   > Using it's solar panels as flaps,   
   > a la Mars Global Surveyor, it would aerobrake with a profile such that   
   > the resulting vector would be as perpendicular as possible to the   
   > orbit in a normal or antinormal fashion, changing the inclination a   
   > few tenths of degrees at a time, every 90 minutes...   
      
   One thing to note is that at hypersonic speeds it is impossible to achieve a   
   high lift/drag ratio. What this means is that much of the impulse experienced   
   by the aerobraking spacecraft will be drag, with a small amount of lift.   
   Because of this I think it    
   will run out of orbital velocity before it gets much of a change in orbital   
   plane.   
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