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India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects (spacenews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A 4 second delay can mean losing a launch window.

[–] smallaubergine@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 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.