Miracle Ganymede "Landing"

[dezway]

I was trying to land on Ganymede but I realized that my engines weren't powerful enough to slow me down in time so I just embraced that my crew was doomed.

Then this happened.

I hit Ganymede, bounced off, then I pointed my remaining fuel part towards a hill at the perfect angle and this was the only thing that survived.

If we assume that the crew can survive such a hard landing at like 280m/s then they survived.

 

[TtTOtW]

Dude you know just how to torture your crew...

Wanna be in management?

Lolol! Jk.

 

[SFS Is Awesome]

Better make a ship that can rescue them lol!

 

[TtTOtW]

Better make a ship that can rescue them lol!

Or pick up what will remain of their corpses.

 

[SFS Is Awesome]

Or pick up what will remain of their corpses.

Lol someone should make a movie of that here’s this for a title “The Jovian”

 

[Danny Batten]

Or pick up what will remain of their corpses.

Slightly pessimistic

 

[TtTOtW]

Slightly pessimistic

Ask @8bitCosmonaut what are their chances of survival

 

[SupremeDorian]

It'll be quite a task to rescue a command pod with no docking port on it. Personally, whenever I do a manned mission I always have a docking port on my capsule just in case something doesn't go to plan.

 

[SFS Is Awesome]

It'll be quite a task to rescue a command pod with no docking port on it. Personally, whenever I do a manned mission I always have a docking port on my capsule just in case something doesn't go to plan.

Just send a ship that goes near the capsule and just pretend that the crew got on

 

[TtTOtW]

It'll be quite a task to rescue a command pod with no docking port on it. Personally, whenever I do a manned mission I always have a docking port on my capsule just in case something doesn't go to plan.

Unless you have a Cheezy UFO

 

[Danny Batten]

Unless you have a Cheezy UFO

Well, it would be easy to replicate the grab mechanism for a low g environment

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Ask @8bitCosmonaut what are their chances of survival

Next to 0, getting a new crew to reach Jupiter will take 8 years, life support would've run out by then. The lander also does not seem to have any form of backup.

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

It'll be quite a task to rescue a command pod with no docking port on it. Personally, whenever I do a manned mission I always have a docking port on my capsule just in case something doesn't go to plan.

Too bad there's no EVA transfer yet.

 

[InSight]

Next to 0, getting a new crew to reach Jupiter will take 8 years, life support would've run out by then. The lander also does not seem to have any form of backup.

Survival chances from landing G forces?

 

[Altaïr]

Survival chances from landing G forces?

Actually the deceleration depends on how much of the shock the structure absorbs, so it's not possible to give a general answer. Unfortunately, space ships are not really designed to absorb kinetic energy from an impact like a car. Anyway, at such a speed, there's virtually 0 chance, this is a similar situation to an airplane crash.

 

[Altaïr]

I was trying to land on Ganymede but I realized that my engines weren't powerful enough to slow me down in time so I just embraced that my crew was doomed.

Then this happened.

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I hit Ganymede, bounced off, then I pointed my remaining fuel part towards a hill at the perfect angle and this was the only thing that survived.

If we assume that the crew can survive such a hard landing at like 280m/s then they survived.

Yeah, the gravity on jovian moons and especially Ganymede is insane. It's even greater than on Mars and Mercury
If that can help, I've made a delta-V map a while ago, it also tells you how strong the gravity is on each body:
https://jmnet.one/sfs/forum/index.php?threads/delta-v-map-for-sfs-1-4.1874/#post-31551

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

Survival chances from landing G forces?

depends on impact velocity, the higher the velocity, the higher the deceleration will be, the higher the g-forces.

Any crash velocity greater than 282 m/s will result in a 0 percent survival chance.

 

[dezway]

depends on impact velocity, the higher the velocity, the higher the deceleration will be, the higher the g-forces.

Any crash velocity greater than 282 m/s will result in a 0 percent survival chance.

the velocity was actually 380 m/s and I got it wrong

so yeah they like 1.35x dead

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

the velocity was actually 380 m/s and I got it wrong

so yeah they like 1.35x dead

If that's the case then, you'd better make their families think their father's death was worth it.

 

[SupremeDorian]

If that's the case then, you'd better make their families think their father's death was worth it.

Just tell them that they're not actually dead, but that they're actually the first in an effort to colonize Ganymede.

 

[dezway]

Just tell them that they're not actually dead, but that they're actually the first in an effort to colonize Ganymede.

this comment makes me angry

 

[InSight]

this comment makes me angry

Well, they are gnna be there for a looooooooong time…

 

[Gecko Gekkota]

this comment makes me angry

Why?

 

[dezway]

Why?

imagine one of astronauts' family members goes to Ganymede thinking they paved the way but the only thing they found was their bodies.

 

[Gecko Gekkota]

imagine one of astronauts' family members goes to Ganymede thinking they paved the way but the only thing they found was their bodies.

Oh, now that would be very upsetting