India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects The liftoff time for India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander was shifted four seconds to avoid close approaches to other space objects.

The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.

  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “30000 trackable objects in orbit” is nothing. Somebody doesn’t quite understand the scale.