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India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects

spacenews.com India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects

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.

India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid 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.

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