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The Luna 9 probe, which achieved the first-ever soft-landing on the moon, used air bags. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lunae6.htm http://www.astronautix.com
by Typhon 15y ago
The Luna 9 probe, which achieved the first-ever soft-landing on the moon, used air bags.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lunae6.htm http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lunae6.htm
Use of such is not incompatible with the use of retrorockets.
- Arjuna 15y agoThank you for the link regarding Luna 9; I did not know that. You originally said, "Use of such is not incompatible with the use of retrorockets. As a matter of fact, the latter are used first." Just to provide clarity, I was referring to the EDL (Entry, Descent, Landing) profile of Spirit and Opportunity. Their EDL profiles first deploy the airbags, then fire the retrorockets. http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/tl_entry1.html http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/tl_entry1.html Step 12: Airbags inflate Step 13: Retrorockets fire