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India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects (spacenews.com)
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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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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

It's not a huge deal, and if it were then the mission is already balanced on a knife's edge and shouldn't have been designed that way in the first place. There are plenty of technical problems that could cause a 4-second delay.