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There's no capability to adjust the trajectory at this point.
by gbrown 9y ago
There's no capability to adjust the trajectory at this point.
- nightski 9y agoI think he means adjust their calculated trajectory once the collision occurs.
- LyndsySimon 9y agoThey've sent one vehicle, I suppose they could send up a tow truck to repossess it...
- Theodores 9y agoThere is also the fire extinguisher in the passenger foot-well, spaceman can just use that to correct his course and get to Mars, maybe to wait for the tow truck there...
- extrapickles 9y agoAfter the burn was complete they can use the cold gas thrusters to slightly change the orbit (a few mm/s now adds up over hundreds of years)
- rocqua 9y agoI heard the batteries were only good for 12 hours. You'd need some sort of power to fire gold gas thrusters.
- extrapickles 9y agoThe final burn was about 6hrs in, so plenty of time then to do any terminal maneuvers (simulating thousands of years shouldn’t take more than an hour)