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One suggestion: if the lander is within about 10 feet of the ground and is still either swaying back and forth or going really fast laterally, it should thrust upwards to buy more time to correct those things.



oh yeah definitely. Left as an exercise for the reader??

(accepting PRs!)


Actually, I think my new algorithm fixes this -- and without any dedicated "swaying" edge case!




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