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The recent failure of the Japanese Resilience lander in June of 2025 inspires this topic.
The issue to be addressed in this topic is how to increase chances of a successful landing of an automated system approaching an unprepared surface anywhere in the Solar System.
The problem is NOT going to be going away. It will be present for ** every ** approach to an object, regardless of it's size.
This topic is inspired by the example of Resilience, and by many other probes that have failed to land.
It is ** also ** inspired by the imagination of Void, whose visionary speculation created an entire (future) industry to deliver products using regolith braking.
The purpose of this topic is to offer a venue for NewMars members to provide future lander designers with tips for creation of a hard lander to proceed a ** real ** lander so that the location and nature of the terrain can be known.
I am thinking of something about the size of a soccer ball, equipped with sensors and communications equipment, able to survive impact with a surface and then report back to the lander on conditions at the intended landing site.
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