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It could be two landers, one stacked on top of the other for takeoff, but separate for landing EDIT: or a horizontal lander, packed on it's side for takeoff.
by aylmao 2y ago
It could be two landers, one stacked on top of the other for takeoff, but separate for landing
EDIT: or a horizontal lander, packed on it's side for takeoff.
I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but landing something this tall seems quite complicated too in the first place.
- rolph 2y agogo bigger this could be a pancake stack that separates into a swarm of puck like units according to some sequence
- throwup238 2y agoYou’d be paying the extra mass cost of landing gears for each pancake - something has to absorb the impact of landing or they’ll just break apart. These landers already operate at the margin.
- ForOldHack 2y agoYou do not need as many landing gears. No meat bags to protect, but you would need separate propulsion units, less the fuel for return trip. Landing gear is light weight. What was the landing gear ratio in other NASA unmanned probes? How did the asteroid interception land? This is probe #2 from the company - NASA did not get there until Apollo 11 they are not the same... Computers are almost a billion times faster.
- ForOldHack 2y agoThis is off the hook out side the box. If you landed functional units and the had some mechanism to connect them back up, you could reduce the force of landing... Oh wait.. this is exactly the plan for colonisation. Seriously read digital apollo
- ForOldHack 2y agoThis is really thinking outside the box. Please read digital Apollo. It's that good.