Why Orion starts reentry over the Indian Ocean

1:10:21So, if we We're actually going to start over the Indian Ocean. If you go to photo number 33, >> Yes. >> look at how much Look at how much just real estate >> distance >> the the distance. Yeah. Look at how much distance the re-entry procedure is taking. They're entering the atmosphere somewhere over India, just south of India in the Indian Ocean. >> it's a Sri Lanka area. >> Yeah, exactly. And they're going across more than half of the Earth in order to dump all of that kinetic energy. >> The The point here being once Orion re-enters Earth's atmosphere, you know, 400,000 ft above the Earth's surface. Yeah. >> It's going to traverse across It's not

1:11:04just It's not just going to come straight down. >> Yeah, exactly. >> It's going to traverse across the surface of the Earth. And the reason that's a a proactive choice because we need to dissipate the heat >> need to dump all that energy. >> And so we need a longer amount of time in order to allow that to burn off so that the vehicle can slow down enough to be able to land safely. >> we need to manage that heat exactly right, right? We need to It's over such a long period because we don't want it to get so hot. The temperature can't get too hot. >> That's really important. >> If it I mean, a meteor, right? Just goes in. >> Right. >> Okay, it dumped all of that kinetic energy, but it did it over such a small amount of time that the temperature gets

1:11:45to like lava. You don't want that to happen here. We want to do We want to do it over a long enough distance and a long enough time that the temperature is sort of managed. It's only about 5,000° F. >> Makes sense. >> Which is only Yeah, only about 5,000° F.