Carbon fiber thermal tiling on its ventral surface protects the Valkyrie during the descent. As it hits the Pandoran atmosphere, the hypersonic re-entry speed generates shock heating. Valkyries enter the dense Pandoran atmosphere after decoupling from an ISV from a low delta-v orbit. As seen in the picture (upper right), a Valkyrie is landing at Hell's Gate. Each Valkyrie has VTOL capabilities for easier landing onto the planetary surface, thanks to thrust vectoring provided by two pairs of pivoting turbojet nacelles mounted into the delta wing, and its powerful fusion powerplant provides enough energy to power the engines for hours at a time, which allows the shuttle to function as a low speed aerial platform for exploration and survey roles. A third older Valkyrie craft was re-purposed to serve as automated gas harvesters, skimming through Polyphemus' upper atmosphere to obtain anti-hydrogen and deuterium for refueling the ISV. The two Valkyries carried by the ISV are used to ferry personnel and cargo between the orbiting spaceship and the Pandoran surface, and are mainly docked at the Hell's Gate base on Pandora. The Valkyrie has an operational range of 2000 kilometers in the Pandoran atmosphere and a typical payload of 60 armed infantry troops, 25 AMP suits and 25 metric tons of cargo, with a maximal payload capacity up to 35 metric tons. The Valkyrie SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit)-TAV-37 B-class shuttlecraft ( Na'vi name: shah-tell) is a delta-wing trans-atmospheric vehicle primarily used to transport personnel, equipment, supplies and the harvested unobtanium mineral between the Hell's Gate mining base on the exomoon Pandora and the ISV Venture Star in space orbit. 35,000 knots when leaving Pandora's atmosphere.Dorsal hardpoints for Hydra machinegun nests or automated turrets (optional).Orbital shuttle from ISV Venture Star to Hell's Gate
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