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India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects (spacenews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.

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[–] AllBlue22@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand the sentiment but a 4 second delay is hardly a story.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A 4 second delay can mean losing a launch window.

[–] smallaubergine@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

4 seconds? Usually launch windows are in hours and days right? Unless you have barely any fuel margin and you're trying to hit a very very specific orbit I can't imagine 4 seconds being a huge issue. But I'm no orbital dynamicist