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I was surprised they had the propulsion budget for it.
by hoseja 3y ago
I was surprised they had the propulsion budget for it.
- ansible 3y agoIt helps a lot that the Moon's gravity is about 1/6th of Earth's.
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- devnonymous 3y agoNot only was the Chandrayaan 3 budget lesser than that of Chandrayaan 2, as a meme doing the rounds point out, it was lesser than the budgets of some Hollywood blockbusters like Interstellar. So yeah, safe to say they could have had the budget for more if necessary.
- dotnet00 3y agoI don't think they're referring to literal money, but rather that the lander had enough fuel.
- Sharlin 3y ago"Fuel budget", "mass budget", "payload budget", even "delta-v budget" are common terms in spaceflight and refer to how much of a valuable thing a spacecraft can carry given some pesky laws of physics [1], nothing to do with money (except insofar as more money would let you build a bigger spacecraft…) [1] https://www.kallmorris.com/columns/tyranny-of-the-rocket-equation https://www.kallmorris.com/columns/tyranny-of-the-rocket-equ...