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Why would a rocket be harder to control in lower gravity?
by inamberclad 4y ago
Why would a rocket be harder to control in lower gravity?
- matheusmoreira 4y agoLower gravity means less energy is needed to maneuver. There's less room for error, so the pilot must maneuver more precisely. Maybe this isn't a problem outside all the little simulators I've tried. Computer control exists, after all. Maybe these simulators all suck and I'm wrong. All I know is when I tried pilot the ship near a low gravity planet, the slightest mistake would put me in an escape trajectory. So I developed this intuition that I need to be much more careful in lower gravity, like a space version of a therapeutic index.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoThat's just a consequence of having an oversized rocket. If you scale down the rocket, it becomes controllable again.