Timeline for How rover landing is achieved on planets with very low atmospheric pressure?
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| Sep 21, 2020 at 5:12 | comment | added | Mahen | I had a conflicting thought about Diffusion and what Pearson said "The gases do not escape randomly, but are very much in a specific direction". | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 21:42 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | Not to mention using thrusters near the ground, which has its own set of issues. | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | Note that the airbag landings also used a rocket braking stage. The rocket motors were attached to the payload by a tether, in a more primitive "skycrane" arrangement, and slowed the airbagged payload to a near-halt before it was released. The airbags just made it so high-precision rocket control wasn't needed. | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 19:15 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | SpaceX's landings don't use parachutes, except for the Dragon capsules. There are videos out there, look for "7 minutes of terror Mars" and you'll find them. | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 16:52 | vote | accept | Mahen | ||
| Sep 20, 2020 at 16:49 | comment | added | Mahen | Okk. So the same must be the way the Rocket booster landing of SpaceX works. | |
| Sep 20, 2020 at 16:36 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |