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[i]The reentry idea is actually a big part of the research that has gone on with Sprite-sized spacecraft. It turns out that by making the spacecraft very small and thin (slightly smaller than the current Sprite design), they can reenter without getting very hot at all, and can even continue operating and transmitting data all the way through the atmosphere. There's more information on the idea [URL=http://www.spacecraftresearch.com/MII/MII_concepts.html#drag]here[/URL] and if you want to get into the technical details, check out the paper listed at the bottom of that page, "Length Scaling in Spacecraft Dynamics".[/i]
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