Talk:Aerocapture

Aerocapture
Any more detail from Aerobraking that really belongs here? Very illustrative picture. MFago 04:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Math
Can we have some of the math on this and a lot more detail? Gingermint (talk) 04:16, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Picture doesn't render properly
The text in the picture doesn't render properly with my browser, I'm using chrome v9.0.597.98 on windows 7. I guess it's because it's an .svg, but the letters are scrunched together and pretty much unreadable, anyone able to fix this? Larryisgood (talk) 15:42, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Update: I just checked with 'firefox v3.6.13 and that's not rendering it correctly either. When I actually open the .svg in a new window it works fine. Anyone else getting the same problem?Larryisgood (talk) 15:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Incorrectly called aerobraking?
Aerocapture
 * Aerocapture within fiction can be read in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two, in which two spacecraft (one Russian, one Chinese) both use aerocapture in Jupiter's atmosphere to shed their excess velocity and position themselves for exploring Jupiter's satellites. This can be seen as a special effect in the movie version (created by MGM/released by Warner Home Video) in which only a Russian spacecraft undergoes aerocapture (in the film incorrectly called aerobraking), which is demonstrated via special effects.

If they are using aerocapture in Jupiter's atmosphere, they will land on Jupiter's surface. If they are using it on the atmosphere of one of Jupiter's satellites, they will land on that satellite. I haven't seen it, but I'm guessing they are actually using aerobraking on Jupiter's surface, and another method (aerocapture or whatever) to land on its satellite to explore it. Does anyone agree this is indeed correctly called aerobraking, and that the paragraph doesn't even belong in this article? D. F. Schmidt (talk) 03:01, 1 October 2011 (UTC)