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During an interview with "the Angry Astronaut", Dynetics HLS Payload Manager Kathy Laurini suggested that the drop tanks could be salvaged and incorporated into a fuel tank farm. This suggests the tanks are dropped at a very low altitude just before touchdown, otherwise the impact would destroy them.
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I obtained the chart from data I logged and reverse-engineered for Hayabusa OnBoardCamera and LIDAR; unfortunately telemetries feed broke right after SCI operation, for several days:
Planned timeline:
Interactive chart: http://programmi.hostingerapp.com/hayabusa2/simulator/haya2-dates-5000.html
Schedule was:
04/05 01:44 - 500 meters - Estimated target ...
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