Scientists Maximilian Berte and Kodziro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo (Japan) discovered the fate of paper aircraft if he was thrown from the International Space Station (ISS). About their research speak The universe of today's portal.
In the publication of scientists, the driving force of the penetration into the earth's atmosphere is formed into a blank paper of A4 format. The initial height of the orbit and the speed of paper aircraft coincides with people in ISS – 400 km and 7800 meters per second, respectively.
The computer model created by scientists shows that by 120 km height, the aircraft will fall for about 3.5 days without being lost. Then, when the density of the Earth's atmosphere increases, the plane will go into an uncontrolled motion and its design will begin to go through degradation.
The scientists decided to study what was happening to the aircraft, blowing it three times a decrease in an aerodynamic pipe. Within seven seconds, a paper aircraft was exposed to the airflow at a speed of 7 numbers, due to the nose of the device bent, and the head of the wing was burnt. The scientists decided not to continue experiments, coming to the conclusion that further impact on a paper aircraft will lead to its destruction.
Earlier, Russian astronaut Alexei Zubritsky said that it often disappeared on the ISS that could be found on a fan or filter, where they fell with airflow.