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If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.
For option 4, they could have used a rope and just pulled it closer.
xkcd #2909: Moon Landing Mission Profiles
Submitted 8 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moon_landing_mission_profiles_2x.png
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psud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The current Artemis 4 plan
Gateway
- Two modules launched together to lunar near rectilinear halo orbit (NHRO)
Lander
- Starship lander launches to LEO
- Some large number of starship tankers (or few tankers doing many flights) refuel the lander
- Lander flies to NRHO, docks with gateway
Transport
- Crew launch and fly to NHRO in Orion
- Orion rendezvous with gateway
- Crew land using the lander, do stuff
- Crew ascend to NHRO in lander
- Lander rendezvous with gateway
- Crew return to Earth in Orion
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Makes sense to me. Just move the moon closer. 🤷🏻♂️
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 months ago
"Potentially taking longer"
OpenStars@startrek.website 8 months ago
That’s not “fair”! Such an unbalanced relationship.
towerful@programming.dev 8 months ago
it only depicts the means to reach the Moon, more suitable for robotic missions that are not required to return,^[racist comment implying that robots have no right to be repatriated]^
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
“Have your people talk to my people.”
“…but I don’t have any…”
“Well then go get some!”
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 8 months ago
explainxkcd.com/2909
towerful@programming.dev 8 months ago