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What caused the jitter in the DART video as it approached Dimorphos?
This is an extended comment to your self-answer, so I'm making it community.
From your answer,
As to why they weren't able to do a single, early course correction and just glide smoothly in for the ...
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What caused the jitter in the DART video as it approached Dimorphos?
I'm revising my answer based on the comments and on the community answer started by David Herman.
Corrections were not made right up until the end, but stopped with 500 miles to go. This is according ...
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The Boeing Big Onion - Why not use the atmospheric engines on landing?
Your question is based on a misunderstanding. That proposed vehicle did not utilize air-breathing engines.
Technical details can be found in the paper Future Space Transportation Systems Analysis ...
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