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Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to astero... by rocqua on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:25PM (#16327244)
I heard the batteries were only good for 12 hours. You'd need some sort of power to fire gold gas thrusters.
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Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to astero... by extrapickles on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:25PM (#16327676)
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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