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gbrown
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SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to...
There's no capability to adjust the trajectory at this point.
LyndsySimon
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They've sent one vehicle, I suppose they could send up a tow truck to repossess it...
Theodores
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There is also the fire extinguisher in the passenger foot-well, spaceman can just use that to correct his course and get to Mars, maybe to wait for the tow truck there...
extrapickles
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After the burn was complete they can use the cold gas thrusters to slightly change the orbit (a few mm/s now adds up over hundreds of years)
rocqua
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I heard the batteries were only good for 12 hours. You'd need some sort of power to fire gold gas thrusters.
extrapickles
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The final burn was about 6hrs in, so plenty of time then to do any terminal maneuvers (simulating thousands of years shouldn’t take more than an hour)
nightski
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I think he means adjust their calculated trajectory once the collision occurs.
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