Why Did the Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule "Retro burn" When it was only suborbital? | Vintage Space
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I am super stoked that I just found your channel. Good luck in the world of RUclips!!
I'd like to see more obscure details like that in this channel. But you have to skip *more than half* of the video to get the answer :) Good luck nonetheless, happy to know there was actually a retro burn on Freedom 7, thanks !
Heads up Crew....Because of the nuance, a 3rd reason why they fired the retro's may have to do with testing the system before the same capsule was to launch an the more capable Atlas rocket, which of course was powerful enough to get the Mercury spacecraft into low Earth orbit. However, this is not totally confirmed so I left this bit out. What do you guys want to see in this mini series? Let me know!
I was going to go out on a limb and comment prior to watching the video; which I'm doing now. However, testing was the PRIMARY reason and making a controlled landing point was the secondary. I'll be interested into what you thought it was; now off to actually watching the video.
OK, I watched it. The "thermal load" issue was because the suborbital flights used a beryllium heatshield instead of the ablative type used on the orbital flights. That was mostly a safety factor issue not the prime reason.
@@robertarnold9815 Hello friend! Yes I had dropped that disclaimer in the comments where I stated I left that part out of the video because I could not confirm if it was primarily for testing reasons. But overall I do get that all the reasons played really well here. Thank for watching!
I also always assumed it was to test the equipment prior to an orbital flight. Good luck with your channel.