Re: Lunar module performance limits
- From: BradGuth <bradguth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:48:42 -0800 (PST)
pstanle...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Just wondering on the moon how much of a slope the LMs could have
landed with. And was this a limit for tipping over, or was this a
limit based on a controllable blast off. Ideas?
Stan
The required terrestrial prototype R&D of such supposed fly-by-rocket
w/o momentum reaction wheels, of whatever Apollo lunar lander simply
doesn't exist, whereas even the most recent of such expertise efforts
at accomplishing such a complex if not lethally daunting task hasn't
been demonstrated to any degree of fail-safe performance, not even
within the absolute most ideal of 100% flat tarmac considerations.
Please let us know if you ever manage to come across anything of
documented R&D, especially if it's capable of accomplishing a 45
degree slope landing, so as to avoid the otherwise tens of meters in
depth worth of all that absolutely dry and electrostatic charged dust.
Controllable down-range landings upon a crater rim, as well as on
behalf of whatever "controllable blast off", is perhaps at best going
to be a fully robotic kind of accomplishment, at least at first until
all those pesky deorbit and controlled down-range fly-by-rocket bugs
are worked out, including those two or three extremely powerful
momentum reaction wheels that are essential.
- Brad Guth
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