And from the references that leads to JTAS 11 page 16. It allows for reentries from velocities as high as 14 km/sec, quite a bit faster than I'm simulating here.
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 On January 27, 2018 6:33 PM, Thomas Jones-Low <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 1/27/2018 9:15 PM, Tim wrote:
>>On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:22:15PM -0500, Caleuche wrote:
>>>So I turned to the next obvious option: lifepods. Somewhere I had
>>> once seen a drawing of a Traveller lifepod intended for reentry that
>>> was not pressurized (and open to space even) which basically was a
>>> mass of ablative material on the front, with a space for the
>>> Traveller to lay down on immediately behind it.
>>>That doesn't seem survivable.  You would want at least some shielding
>> from the radiative heat flux and later transsonic airflow around the
>> pod.
>>
>http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Personal_Reentry_Kit
>
> This is one of the early Traveller pieces of cool technology. The idea is to
> have a very small frame and a package of foam for a really light weight package
> before being deployed.
>
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