If you are aiming for the International Space Station and accidentally overshoot it, can you make it back? Or do you just drift off into orbit until someone rescues you?
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It’s pretty much impossible to miss like that. The math involved is very straightforward, and you’d know hours in advance whether or not you were going to miss, and could make corrective maneuvers to prevent it.
If things are so bad that you don’t know that you’re going to miss until after it happens, then all bets are off as to what the result would be, because your telemetry equipment has apparently broken down so badly that you don’t know where you are anymore.
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