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j4k0bfr • yesterday at 8:03 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Ah I see. Yeah looks like it's pretty much just RCS for cars. Space landing systems are pretty well understood from the rocketry side afaik. The hard parts seem to really be around autonomous landing site selection [1][2] in novel environments. We'll have to see if the Roadster can do significant in-flight landing manoeuvrers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IM-1#Lunar_landing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_1#Landing_att...


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King-Aaron • yesterday at 9:18 AM

The novel thing is atmospheric compressed air RCS, but even so I’m not talking moon landings.

This feels like a delivery mechanism to drop hardware from terrestrial orbit. At least the last leg after parachutes