Space Jump

[Spinward Scout]

I never watched this before. Maybe something for your game.

Watch the record breaking space jump from 24.2 miles(38.9 km) above the surface of earth by 'Felix Baumgartner'.

Record breaking space jump - free fall faster than speed of sound - Red Bull Stratos.

 

[Proneutron]

I never watched this before. Maybe something for your game.



Record breaking space jump - free fall faster than speed of sound - Red Bull Stratos.

Almost forever in my game I've had vacc suits with a landing thruster attachment. Thruster slows one to landing speed right before you reach the surface. Since you are not slowing from orbit it is no problem.

 

[coliver988]

Almost forever in my game I've had vacc suits with a landing thruster attachment. Thruster slows one to landing speed right before you reach the surface. Since you are not slowing from orbit it is no problem.

better be high enough that the sudden deceleration doesn't kill you - going from a terminal velocity of 53m/s (118mph) in too short a time would be painful (for a size 8 world w/a standard atmosphere).

It's not the fall that kills you, it is the sudden stop at the end

I've used grav belts myself (okay, not me me, but my character me)

 

[BRover]

better be high enough that the sudden deceleration doesn't kill you - going from a terminal velocity of 53m/s (118mph) in too short a time would be painful (for a size 8 world w/a standard atmosphere).

It's not the fall that kills you, it is the sudden stop at the end

I've used grav belts myself (okay, not me me, but my character me)

True--but if you can stand 2G, it only takes 5.3 sec to slow (given the world's 1G gravity), in which time you fall 140 m. If you decelerate at 1/2 G, then you fall about 560 m in 10.6 sec. So it's not too hard--if your thruster unit has some sort of range finder and small computer.

 

[Proneutron]

better be high enough that the sudden deceleration doesn't kill you - going from a terminal velocity of 53m/s (118mph) in too short a time would be painful (for a size 8 world w/a standard atmosphere).

Not a problem at all. World record deceleration is 83 Gs. Going from 118 mph to zero in 1 second is easy. 118 mph = 53 meters/sec = ~5.4 Gs to stop in 1 second.

 

[Condottiere]

It's survivable, if you have a large enough pool of dice to throw at it.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Almost forever in my game I've had vacc suits with a landing thruster attachment. Thruster slows one to landing speed right before you reach the surface. Since you are not slowing from orbit it is no problem.

Good solution for landing on airless/thin-atmosphere worlds.

If you can aerobrake, the proposed MOOSE (Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment) [wikipedia] system from the early 1960s is another option.

IMTU there's an optional aerobraking kit for early-TL Air/Rafts that works similarly, enabling hot reentry from orbital altitude and velocity.

And of course there are Drop Capsules...

 

[Proneutron]

Good solution for landing on airless/thin-atmosphere worlds.

If you can aerobrake, the proposed MOOSE (Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment) [wikipedia] system from the early 1960s is another option.

IMTU there's an optional aerobraking kit for early-TL Air/Rafts that works similarly, enabling hot reentry from orbital altitude and velocity.

And of course there are Drop Capsules...

Yes, cool. I was just commenting on a Interstellar TL range solution. Which works fine on airless to dense atmosphere planets. Your neat solution is good for the TL it was invented for.