In this scan Torch is meant to match the speed of the rocket on reentry which you can see in the second panel is already starting to burn up from approaching terminal velocity
According to google “As a spacecraft re-enters the earth's atmosphere, it is traveling very much faster than the speed of sound. The aircraft is said to be hypersonic. Typical low earth orbit re-entry speeds are near 17,500 mph and the Mach number M is nearly twenty five, M < 25.”
Is it possible Torch is going hypersonic here or are there other factors at play here
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