No Stupid Questions@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months ago

Parachute maximum limits? ISS parachute to earth?

jet@hackertalks.com to

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months ago

The astronauts on the ISS that are stuck and can’t parachute back to Earth… but why not?

The highest jump I could find was 39km (Stratos jump)

Is it the height from the planet? The speed of the ISS? If we wanted to design ISS escape pods, what would be required?

Chat

doesntfuckingmatter@lemmynsfw.com
link
fedilink
arrow-up
4·
3 months ago
We still don’t have ODST tech yet? Slackers…

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

There is no such thing as a Stupid Question!

Don’t be embarrassed of your curiosity; everyone has questions that they may feel uncomfortable asking certain people, so this place gives you a nice area not to be judged about asking it. Everyone here is willing to help.

ex. How do I change oil
ex. How to tie shoes
ex. Can you cry underwater?

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca still apply!

Thanks for reading all of this, even if you didn’t read all of this, and your eye started somewhere else, have a watermelon slice 🍉.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

71 users / day
293 users / week
520 users / month
954 users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
2.31K subscribers
143 Posts
1.33K Comments
Modlog