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extrapickles
on Feb 7, 2018
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SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to...
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
on Feb 7, 2018
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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)
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