While being in general interesting (and comprehensive, it seems) study, the provided impact on space travel in the press release is purelly hilarious: > Even a

While being in general interesting (and comprehensive, it seems) study, the provided impact on space travel in the press release is purelly hilarious: > Even a slight deviation of just one centimetre on Earth can grow to a deviation of hundreds of metres over the huge distances involved. “Otherwise, it won’t be possible to land in a specific crater on Mars,” he says. Common... we don't lunch rockets with probes to other planets purelly balistically since forever. There are course adjustments along the trajectory in the atmosphere and in space. This is needed not just because of Earth related effects, but because engines perform slightly differently from predictictions, center of mass shifting relatively to center of thrust in zero-g because of liquids sloshing, etc.