Re: plasma ejector braking

blart <blart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> another post got me thinking about aerobraking to a 'soft' landing on the
> moon
>
> it may be possible if the soft lander were preceded by a hard impactor that
> could excavate a significant amount of ejecta back along its trajectory,
> like a shaped charge in reverse...

The escape velocity on the moon isn't really high enough to melt all the
ejecta, which is a really bad thing.

Large nuclear explosions at some standoff distance will release a much
larger volume of gas/... with most of it being in very small particles,
as it's evaporating/condensing.
.

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