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Re:The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has ... by avhon1 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:44PM (#37202777)
Probably a similar amount, actually. It's not like the Soviet lunar landers were manually landed; the 3-second speed-of-light delay to Earth meant that only the rovers were operated that way.
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Re:The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has ... by remarkEon on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:42AM (#37206137)
Right, I was thinking a little deeper. As in, how much of the actual control modes where automated? Did the craft wait for corrections from mission control on that 3-second delay back then? Did it compute it's own corrections on its own? Today, is more (or even all) of that flight behavior automated such that there's no real opportunity (given the aforementioned 3-second delay) for humans to say "hey this doesn't look right, cancel the maneuver node stand by for further instructions"?
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