First Private Moon Landing Gears Up for Launch by Year's End

Re:First Private Moon Landing Gears Up for Launch by Year's End by drzaiusapelord on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:30PM (#14490035)

>Electron, a two-stage, carbon-composite rocket designed to deliver payloads weighing up to about 330 lbs into orbits some 310 miles above Earth.

For reference, the moon is 238,900 miles away.

I guess they want the MX-1E lander to fly itself from LEO to the moon. Interesting concept, hope it works out for them.

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Re:First Private Moon Landing Gears Up for Launch by Year's End by euyyn on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:40PM (#14491742)

I doesn't really work in distances, rather in delta-v. Getting to LEO takes ~9.5 km/s, and getting in a lunar trajectory from there, about 3 km/s more.

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