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Re:Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appear... by Voloskaya on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:00PM (#19638542)
When you are floating along on a stable orbit the engines are off, so it's quite hard to have a failure in this context.
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Re:Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appear... by ses1984 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:04PM (#19638578)
Maybe the failure occurs as you are initiating acceleration burn, while you are in stable orbit.
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Re:Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appear... by nkrisc on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:20PM (#19638744)
They could fail to ignite if you were attempting a burn from a stable orbit into another orbit.
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