Comment on India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects

• smallaubergine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  4 seconds? Usually launch windows are in hours and days right? Unless you have barely any fuel margin and you're trying to hit a very very specific orbit I can't imagine 4 seconds being a huge issue. But I'm no orbital dynamicist

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's not a huge deal, and if it were then the mission is already balanced on a knife's edge and shouldn't have been designed that way in the first place. There are plenty of technical problems that could cause a 4-second delay.

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe if you're trying to hit a Honda Civic from a couple million miles away using an unpowered ballistic trajectory.

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