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How does one "land" on an asteroid which is spinning too fast ? Is it at all possible to match the spin of a smallish android from orbit ?
by yazr 8y ago
How does one "land" on an asteroid which is spinning too fast ?
Is it at all possible to match the spin of a smallish android from orbit ?
- ceejayoz 8y agoMake a sturdy lander and just crash into it. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/06/20/asteroid-ryugu-revealed-by-approaching-japanese-spacecraft/ https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/06/20/asteroid-ryugu-reveale... says Ryugu only rotates once every 7.6 hours.
- tychomaz 8y agoThey have an open websocket to an Asteroid Landing five-layer Neural Network. The lander sends images back in real time and the earth-borne NN sends it telemetry adjustments in BSON.