"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Dr. P. Quackenbush wrote:

It'll likely have both automatic and manual docking modes. It's also
quite
possible that the docking procedure can be partly or fully teleoperated
from
Earth.



Easy enough in Earth orbit- but at lunar distances, given the time delay?

Pat


1.2 second one way light speed delay? No big deal if you're moving slowly
and the machine you're controlling is somewhat intelligent. I think the old
Soviet Lunakhod rovers were teleoperated.