So it doesn’t need to set it into a impact course with the planet, it just needs to start to bounce off the atmosphere, the first phase of which is entering it, which will burn it to a crisp or rip it apart considering how it’s built is not very aerodynamic and it’s already spinning violently. Now, we have established that impact of the explosion and the vented gasses was significant, let’s talk about the most important part: the endurance has no heat shield. We see one of the modules upper portion break but the bottom remains intact, meaning that those gases were vented almost exclusively up. Now yes some of that explosions momentum was transferred into rotational velocity, but the Ranger 1 would’ve exploded above and close the endurance, pushing it down towards the planet. So assuming that since they’re humanity’s last hope they take a full load of fuel just to be safe, a 50% increase in gravity would mean that that ranger would be quite a bit heavier on fuel, adding quite a bit of propellant and more perspective on just how and why the fireball was that big. Also according to the internet, Millers planet, the water world, was 130% gravity. That’s significant, not to mention there was the initial venting of gasses then secondary explosion. Now we literally cannot calculate how much force this was, but it was a massive explosion that lasted for about 4 seconds. All of that is venting gases, and we only see the most luminous fireball in the reflection off Brands helmet and from the light on Coopers face, but it appeared to be pretty large. The fireball in the movie lasted pretty long, a few seconds. They also appear to be orbiting pretty close, the curve of the planet is barely visible, so they didn’t really need to go far to hit atmosphere. Manns planet was 80% earths gravity, so it would take less thrust to alter to its orbit so that’s an advantage for the movie. Small amounts of thrust have massive implications in orbit. I haven't found a single thing on this online, so I'm probably missing a very obvious answer, but let me know if you guys are seeing something I'm not. Another is that the Endurance put itself on a suborbital trajectory to assist with the docking, but there is no good reason for this so it's not really a possible answer. The only plausible answer I could think to this is that the Endurance was never in orbit, but rather it was 'hovering' over Mann's planet to conserve fuel so that the Lander wasn't required to go in and out of orbit several times, it was positioned correctly for this in the scene, however the planet would still rotate underneath so it doesn't make much sense. ![]() There was no major change to the Endurance's velocity as it's clearly shown that the Lander had little relative velocity both before and after the explsion, so why did the Endurance "begin to fall." ![]() But I'm still confused by it, and can't seem to find an explanation for it.Īfter the explsion, a ticking clock is introduced and its stated that the Endurance was going to fall into the atmosphere of Mann's planet, which is the point I'm confused on. The docking scene is probably the most well known part of the movie, with an amazing score and great visuals.
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