How To Land on Other Planets (Realistically)

[Spinward Flow]

Potentially relevant to Travellers and Referees ...

 

[Condottiere]

Actually, and this I'll credit Starchaser, I have a concept of stuffing two five tonne barbettes with manoeuvre drive modules, for Confederation corvettes.

 

[whartung]

"Lithobraking". Great word.

 

[Spinward Flow]

Aerobraking.
Hydrobraking.
Lithobraking.

And if you're using a magnetic sail in a magnetosphere ... Magbraking.