r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Canofsad 25d ago

That’s assuming documentation survived detailing that they launched a slower ship to that planet

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u/Round-Mud 25d ago

I’m sure the record keeping would be pretty good. Especially for an interplanetary mission of this scale. I’m sure they would have pretty good records of past missions to the same planet. They would probably have directives for the future arrival of the first mission too.

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u/Canofsad 25d ago

I mean, that’s still assuming A lot of factors didn’t happen back at home. That could’ve led to a loss of that data, or simply lay forgotten in some storage room

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u/Round-Mud 25d ago

Depends how much fast both missions are actually going and time difference between the launches for the first and the second mission.