▲ 100 ▼ India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects (spacenews.com) submitted 2 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) A 4 second delay can mean losing a launch window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] smallaubergine@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] smallaubergine@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent