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You could always impact/land violently with it without having to match its trajectory. If your instruments are designed to survive the impact , it could work.
by manquer 6y ago
You could always impact/land violently with it without having to match its trajectory. If your instruments are designed to survive the impact , it could work.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYou can, but you only save as much velocity as the difference during the impact. Can't think of the case where that is, at the same time, both a useful saving and not fast enough to melt your equipment from a high-velocity impact.
- manquer 6y agoWell is it not cheaper(by payload mass) to have higher protection to your equipment than more fuel ? Any benefit is useful , and this could be substantial depending on the strength of materials used
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI imagine that, mass for mass, it isn't (of the extra fuel you carry, each bit you expend means the rest has that much less mass to push). Also, I can't think of means of protection that would withstand a high velocity collision with space gravel, that wouldn't be at the same time prohibitively heavy.