very very hypothetical situation...
So let's suppose you have a rocket headed to the moon , but it passes so close to the surface that it's solar panels and auxiliary control modules hit the surface and detach from the ship and stay in the surface, so the space ship leaves the moon Sphere of influence, and since it got a gravitational leaves the earth sphere of influence and ends up orbiting the sun... What would you do because I can't control it and it got too little fuel... This didn't happen okay? It's just a question
@Graingy the chances of a kraken attack are low but never 0
@Pakdaaircraftindustries well you could just get out and push as Boeing said. As long as you can find a stable orbit then you have all the time in the world.
@Graingy no engine or fuel
@Pakdaaircraftindustries To be clear, it has no fuel?
@Graingy so I think you deserve more context it was all a planed test to do something like a impactor on the mun , I knew that if it went bad this could happen that is why I asked, the mission was : carrying a crewed main ship along the impactor , but the ship hit the moon instead of the impactor and since it got a gravitational assist it went out flying
@Pakdaaircraftindustries but right now he's cooked
@Boeing727200F I will try and do that , I will tell you how it goes, or if I can at least get him to the space station
@Pakdaaircraftindustries if your able to keep jebs orbit stable enough around the sun, you can buy enough time to assemble another rocket to retrieve him.
@Boeing727200F or a SSTO but it's on LKO right now
@Boeing727200F I don't think so , I have a space station orbiting minmus but i don't think it's near a transfer window
@Pakdaaircraftindustries oh so this is kerbal space program stuff
do you have another rocket or a spacecraft that can possibly save jeb?
or you can just use jeb's spacesuit's thrusters to possibily realign the ship to arrive to earth.
@Graingy MY POOR JEB IS THERE BRO HE IS GOING TO THE SUN! I DIDN'T PUT A PROBE THERE BECAUSE I DIDN'T RESEARCH THAT YET!
@Graingy I was playing KSP and the plan was to pass really close to the mun to release a impactor, but it passed way too close...
@Graingy it's was hypothetical until now
@Pakdaaircraftindustries I thought you said this didn't happen, hm?
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@Graingy it technically scratched the surface with the auxiliary control modules and the solar panels it didn't crash directly into the moon
@Graingy well my man is still inside the ship alive , without solar panel or any ways to turn around and heading into a trajectory outside of the earth sphere of influence!
@Pakdaaircraftindustries That's no my point. My point is that at those velocities when two things hit each other it tends to go badly.
@Graingy it wasn't a APSDFS thing it was carrying someone
Seeing as a low lunar orbit is around 1600m/s, I think that's the least of your problems. That's APFSDS-level speeds; those things don't keep acting like regular solids when they hit something.
@Boeing727200F I'm worried should we send sum thing? Because it was supposed to land on the moon and it's orbiting the sun now bro
@Boeing727200F man bro is not escaping the sun
hmmmmmmmmmm
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