[gurps] Stealthy shuttles

[Anthony Jackson]

Onno Meyer wrote:
>> Enter the atmosphere slowly....
> 
> There is always the unspoken assumption that you're in planetary orbit.
> That does not have to be true. Say the shuttle is moving on a slightly 
> eccentric orbit around the sun, timed to coincide with earth orbit at just
> about zero relative velocity. Earth gravity will of course affect the shuttle
> (and vice versa, but that's astronomically small).

This will result in a velocity at re-entry of just above escape velocity 
(11.2 kps or more) rather than orbital velocity, which will not help the 
stealth situation.